Denmark's Burqa Ban Has Gone Into Effect

[pnwmom]

111. I suspect you are a male. You have never had the experience, as a woman,

of coming upon a woman completely covered up except for netting over her eyes, following behind her husband in Sears, up to the counter in the woman's clothing department, where he alone talks to the saleswoman -- while two sons run around, calling to each other in unaccented English (so they are not just tourists.)

Seeing a woman that subservient was revolting. There is NOTHING empowering about being forced to wear robes that completely obscure your identity; that make you a black ghost in public.

I do not believe that any woman -- not under pressure from other people -- would choose to wear an outfit that is hot, difficult to walk around in, that obscures the vision, and makes her invisible to even her closest relatives or friends. If two sisters crossed each other on the street they wouldn't even recognize each other -- that's how isolating the clothing can be.

I'm not interesting in debating this on a philosophical basis. It's a gut feeling that I didn't know I would have till I saw it in front of me. The man might as well have had a collar on her neck and a leash in his hand. That's how it hit me.