Shocking reaction to blonde woman caught on video as crowds of men swarm around her at Cairo Univ

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97. Yes, let's DO look at the pictures of Cairo University over the years.

Now, you claim that women are disenfranchised - enslaved, even! - by the living hell that is a *GASP!* hijab. As opposed to skirts, stockings, and lifts, I guess.

Know what you AREN'T noticing, Malverde?

In each picture you posted there are successively more women in it. 1959 is an utter sausage festival. 2004 looks like Cairo University became an all-women college or something.

Tell me. Why is it that "Progressives" like you define women's progress solely by the amount of skin you get to see? Because that is the only argument you're making here. You set your standards by bathing suits, then complain that the women cover their hair in 2004. All while ignoring, by the very evidence you present, the growing prevalence of women in at least Egyptian academia and student bodies. Also women have been at the front and center of Egyptian protest - Against Mubarak, against Morsi, and now against Sisi. Again, bolstered by your own images.

Further, your complaint is based on another area of ignorance - The "Western Dress" you long for was government-imposed. During the Nasser era it was next to impossible to get a job if you wore anything else. You were treated as a provincial rube, harassed by police, mocked, and otherwise mistreated. This was part of the "Westernization" policy adopted by an unelected strongman government. The people of Egyot nowadays are actually more free in their fashion choices than they were then, even if those choices may often reflect more conservative or - GOD FORBID - less western taste.