The Sufi Show- Margaret Cho
You know, I stopped reading blogs like Margaret Cho's a while back, because I just couldn't keep up with it all, but I really should go catch up on Ms. Cho, because she's worth reading...
Of course a woman could choose to veil and then go for all this crazy shit underneath, for herself and only for herself; but then why would it be so hard to accept her without the veil as herself? I know there are many women who do not veil and are modern feminists who are doing it for themselves, but they seem to be the minority. I want to understand it. I don’t want to be an arrogant Western feminist who is appalled at the treatment of women in this country without any awareness of the cultural subtleties of it all. I veil myself here, unwillingly and unhappily. It causes a rash around my neck, as if my body is saying, “Oh no, I am a feminist and I will not,” until it is muffled by the long black cloth. I veil because I just can’t fucking do anything if I don’t. It offers me a slight degree of protection, like a floating layer of mace.
