Notes based on looking at the conservation on the blog post where I found the above image:
1. Anything put on a pedestal of any sort becomes a "object" - One challenge is the "It" VS "Thou" problem of consciousness first outlined by Martin Buber. -
2. Burqa (complete Hijab above) originates from Damascus and was originally a way for rich patriarchs to hide their women (who were "bought" on their beauty, or so it seems). Like the people of Argentina who switched to brown bread from white bread because their President did showing them it was cool... the poor copied the rich to show that they could afford to cover their women as well. The way this keyboard I'm typing on became a tradition because the letters were scrambled to slow down types because the machines were too slow and now everyone is used to this keyboard and don't want to change, so it is with the Arabs who adopted such Hijab ... who represent the opposite extreme of the 'objectification of women'.
3. With greater freedom of expression(see related movie below), different brain structures, and cover-ups in the media - women will naturally gravitate towards wanting to be the center of attention i.e. in the same way that alpha males gravitate towards to top of the pack - in their societal quest to find a good husband. These techniques to attract attention can become extreme which leads to some very strange responses such as the one by Todd Akin, echoed by Steve King and Paul Ryan etc. Who represent a small but powerful - & ancient = patriarchal mythological group structure.
Related Movie:George looks across the street and sees the dummy in the department store window dressed differently. Bemused by the changing fashions, George continues to watch the clothes on the dummy change as he continues his journey into the future
4. Also notice how "savages"(notice how their clothing is equal!), so called by the English Explorers, tend to be bare chested - both males and females . The key here is Anchoring. A person growing up around bare breasted females will not find bare breasts to be a big deal. In the same way just seeing an outline of breasts may freak an Arab out.
Conclusion: I think the key to understanding modern problems between the sexes lies in the culture and elements seeking to cause trouble (ex. Fox News)
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Edit (add ons) - June 29th 2014
Why do short shorts make a guy gay but not a woman a lesbian (proof of sexism in clothing)?...
I really don’t see how you got this from reading my post, as stated on your blog:
ReplyDelete“Burqa (complete Hijab above) originates from Damascus and was originally a way for rich patriarchs to hide their women (who were “bought” on their beauty, or so it seems). Like the people of Argentina who switched to brown bread from white bread because their President did showing them it was cool… the poor copied the rich to show that they could afford to cover their women as well. The way this keyboard I’m typing on became a tradition because the letters were scrambled to slow down types because the machines were too slow and now everyone is used to this keyboard and don’t want to change, so it is with the Arabs who adopted such Hijab … who represent the opposite extreme of the ‘objectification of women’.”
Nothing written here alludes to that. And it it isn’t true anyway. This pseudo-history of hijaab certainly can't explain this: http://qahiri.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/hijab-by-different-religions.jpg
I guess you are partially right. It should read "the Arabs who adopted such an EXTREME form of Hijab" (a word whose root is "decency").
ReplyDeleteAs for this http://qahiri.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/hijab-by-different-religions.jpg you basically proved my point that the full Burqa is an extreme form of Hijab by calling partial hair covering "Hijab". All I did was point out the source of this extreme form of Hijab. i.e. it's a historical fact that it originates from Damascus. (To REAL Islamic Scholars: Would 'feminine modesty' be a better translation of the root meaning of the word?).
That said, I was a religion major in college (a real college not a State college) and one of my concentrations was in Islam (others in Jewish and Christian Scripture and in Indian History & Religion)... if you don't like history that's not my problem.
Notes:
ReplyDelete"Hijab" - Context: 'Feminine Modesty In A Patriarchal Culture' i.e. http://www.abbasabedi.com/2/post/2013/05/daily-show-discusses-the-princess-and-the-pr-hannity.html - The west has had just 100 years of "freedom for women". The 1900 years before that women were seen as evil (Eve) and Unclean (Period i.e. See Leviticus 15:19 ... same book that says Gays are evil says women are unclean ... more? = http://www.culturesocietyblog.com/2013/03/gods-christian-warriors-with-scriptural.html ). The sort of Patriarchal attitude adopted towards women by the GOP is so ancient and primitive it's banned in Islam: “If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives” (Deuteronomy 22:28–29). (i.e. In Islam the punishment for Rape is Death {Ibn al-Atsir, Jami al-Ushul, IV/270, no 1823 & Hadith: During the time of the Prophet (saw) punishment was inflicted on the rapist on the solitary evidence of the woman who was raped by him. Wa'il ibn Hujr reports of an incident when a woman was raped. Later, when some people came by, she identified and accused the man of raping her. They seized him and brought him to Allah's messenger, who said to the woman, "Go away, for Allâh has forgiven you," but of the man who had raped her, he said, "Stone him to death." (Tirmidhi and Abu Dawud)} - not payment and marriage (I'm guessing rape was such a big problem at that time that death was the only way to slow it down on a societal level... same applies to Modern Day India, no?) - Though that part of the "Shariah" isn't necessarily followed. That's normal in a patriarchal culture. For example the word "Allah" means "Divine Being" and lacks any sense of masculine or feminine meaning but people in a patriarchal culture will still see God as male.)