WayoftheWolf

I was told this by one of my long time Arab girlfriends after I went on a tirade of the oppression on Arab women after one of my women studies classes. She told me that wearing the hijab and dressing modestly to her was not oppression. She believed that Western Women were more oppressed than their Arab sisters. I dont believe in such a judgement; but, believe one oppression is direct and the other is overt. She went to say that Western women were oppressed to look a certain way, augment their bodies to meet that image, wear certain clothes that made them sexual objects. She felt that men treated her with more respect for being modest compared to her american girlfriends. I find it interesting that we use the conversative values in Egypt that say women shouldn't wear bikinis to spread fear, while politicians have done the same thing in our country.