Comments on: Would You Wear It?

By: Diny

Diny — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:40:49 +0000

it doesn’t bother me a bit personally. i’d stare, i’ll admit it, because i’ve never seen one with EVERYTHING closed, even the eyes.
i do feel sad for the woman, mainly because i, myself, won’t do it. but she’s not me. she is either a radical believer or mainly a very good wife/harem who’d do whatever told.

Yeh, I feel sad too – I imagined what it must’ve felt like to be in her shoes. Why is it that it’s always women who had to suffer from things like this? I read that even in Saudi Arabia women aren’t allowed to drive on their own! It’s a mad, mad world we’re living in…

By: asti

asti — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:21:41 +0000

Hmmm, I’m not quite sure what happened to those guys who disguised themselves with burqas. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just get a slap on the wrist

I went to a Saudi wedding! It was weird and surreal in some aspects, yet with the same happiness and hope you feel in any other wedding. Maybe I will write a post about it — for me, it’s one of my favourite travel stories!

Please write about it!! I visited your blog the other day and was mighty impressed by your accomplishments – 20 countries by the time you hit 20?! Damn. NOW I feel old.

By: Bilbo

Bilbo — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:39:23 +0000

I think the entire burqa/headscarf/whatever thing is ridiculous…a male-dominant cultural method of enforcing ownership and discipline over women that should have died out many hundreds of years ago. If the point is to enforce feminine modesty, it seems to me to do the opposite: it says, “I’m so sexy that no one can possibly look at me!” I’ll stop now…if I go on, I’ll just get more spun up!

LOL. Yes, this posting seems to attract most of my visitors’ attention. I don’t understand why women have to be enforced, either in the way they dress themselves or the way they keep their image/appearances. Why women? Why not men? Isn’t it men who create such rules to make sure that women will stay exactly in their places – the weaker gender, the second-class citizen, the object of sin and sexual desires, etc., etc.,?

Human are vain by nature – the narcissistic side of us is there, no matter significant or otherwise, and I’m sure those Saudi women wear branded clothes and blings underneath their burqas to show that they’re not just another women wearing a burqa. No one in this world wants to be labelled to be the same like everybody else. We all want to be different. Everyone is unique in their own ways, including women. But covered up with burqas, they all look the same. It makes me feel very sad to think about this actually.

By: Mach Jabber

Mach Jabber — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:51:28 +0000

And I thought I was original.

BTW, that would be a good reason to ban burkas altogether, wouldn’t it?

Wait, it has the word “reason” in it. They won’t take it seriously.

It will probably be a hundred more years for women to be completely free and earn their equality in this world

By: asti

asti — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:53:22 +0000

@Mach Jabber, it’s actually been done before. There have been incidents in Saudi where guys dressed in a burqa walks into the women’s restroom (or any other women-only areas) :p

So what happens to those dudes???