Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Bodykini, anyone..?


OK, here we go, burka vs. bikini, a photo taken on the streets of Lebanon, and the question is: which one feels more uncomfortable?
There was an article (published in Arabic) about a wife who is now asking for a divorce because her husband tried to uncover her face by removing her burka in her sleep. He did not see her face throughout 30 years of marriage and just wanted to see what she looked like. In some tribes, girls have their faces covered from the age of 2 or 3, so it becomes part of their normal life and even when a woman gets married and have kids, her face remains covered as it is seen to be so privet and part of her personal honor. But what is like to wear a burqa? Journalist Asne Seierstad stayed with an Aphgani family after the fall of the Taliban and wrote about her experience in The book seller of Kabul”. This is her take on wearing the burka “how it pinches the head and causes headaches, how difficult it is to see anything through the grille. How enclosed it is, how all the time you have to be aware of where you are walking because you cannot see your feet, what a lot of dirt it picks up, how dirty it is, how much in the way”. So this is the practical side of things, but what about what it does to your well being, ideas, emotions and mind set etc.?
But in the age of the internet you can find fulfillment to all your needs, “A bodykini”, a special swim suits if burqas is what you usually wear!(not sure what to do your face though?)

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