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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 09:21 PM Original message |
Poll question: Yet another Burqa thread. Your opinion? |
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clydefrand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
1. People should be able to choose what they wear if they can |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
2. What about guys who want to wear burqas? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 09:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Good point! |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. really!? I could see that ;-) |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. It isn't the veil. It's the way men think about women. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
5. I get a little insulted by the notion |
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WhollyHeretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 09:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I'm always amazed by even liberals supporting sexism and bigotries if they are in the name of |
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distantearlywarning (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 09:55 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Me too. |
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smirkymonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 06:23 AM Response to Reply #5 |
50. Nice way of putting it. I completely agree. |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
6. Other Cultures Have A Right To Their Cultures. It Isn't My Place To Judge |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:16 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. But, most of the points of contention |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:19 PM Original message |
all cultures are judged by others |
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smirkymonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 06:31 AM Response to Original message |
52. Great post! |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 08:48 AM Response to Reply #52 |
55. thanks |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:19 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. You respect that they'll beat a woman for showing a strand of hair. |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:21 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. I guess what I wonder is when is it culture and when is it abuse? |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 09:57 PM Response to Original message |
9. For some reason, my vote gives an error when trying to confirm. |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:18 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. what did you think about Apartheid? |
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Bobbieo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Here's another take on the subject!!! |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:49 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. The UN condemned apartheid as racist and a crime against humanity. |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 11:04 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. Hasn't the UN condemned this treatment of women? |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 01:25 AM Original message |
I think there's more than one sect of Muslims. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 01:42 AM Response to Original message |
37. I think you are too fat to reach the keyboard! |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 01:25 AM Response to Reply #24 |
33. dupe - i hate my new mouse. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 12:56 AM Response to Reply #19 |
31. I think it's excellent that Junior High students get involved in politics. |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 01:30 AM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Was that directed at me? |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 01:48 AM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Not at all. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 02:11 AM Response to Reply #35 |
39. I just said, I think it's wonderful that teens like you are involved in politics. |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. you describe the horrors of our society well... |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:56 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. You know... I agree with you. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 02:17 AM Response to Reply #22 |
40. . |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:56 PM Original message |
self-delete - dupe |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:56 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. self-delete - trip |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. "When do we as Americans stop meddling in other country's affairs?" |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 11:16 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. But here it is purely a choice |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 11:30 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. That is an assumption on your part. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 08:43 AM Response to Reply #27 |
54. Well the American government is not going to enforce it legally. |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 11:40 PM Response to Reply #17 |
28. If those shitty practices include murder... |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 01:28 AM Response to Reply #28 |
34. Yes, I would assume so. |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 06:25 AM Response to Reply #17 |
51. I see it more as an act of rebellion. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 01:38 AM Response to Reply #9 |
36. Look, dude... |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 02:20 AM Response to Reply #36 |
41. Your email to me was vile and this message to me is likewise. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 02:28 AM Response to Reply #41 |
43. never mind. I was probably wrong. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 02:38 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. , |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 04:06 AM Response to Reply #41 |
46. I don't think you are a woman. |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 08:40 AM Response to Reply #46 |
53. Spelling? bwa ha ha ha ha |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 02:24 AM Response to Reply #9 |
42. . |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 04:50 AM Response to Reply #9 |
48. who else thinks this elicits a smell? |
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T Town Jake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 07:45 PM Response to Reply #9 |
64. "Who are we to judge anyone?" Yeppers, the South should have been able to... |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 11:41 PM Response to Reply #64 |
66. That isn't my position at all. |
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StellaBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
18. I voted C, but |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
20. Can't answer -- "required" by whom? |
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VeggieTart (698 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
21. Here is a great opinion piece by Anne Applebaum |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 11:12 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Anne Applebaum........hmm |
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tomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-26-06 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
29. i oppose the uniting of state and religion in all cases |
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NuttyFluffers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 12:02 AM Response to Original message |
30. "hard line fundamentalist countries" |
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Wise Child (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 01:05 AM Response to Original message |
32. Somewhat off topic but, |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 11:25 AM Response to Reply #32 |
58. lol, so true. And yet they "want to kill us all." |
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133724 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 02:43 AM Response to Original message |
45. I grew up in a Lutheran Tradition |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 06:30 PM Response to Reply #45 |
60. NOT coerced?? Downright forced is what they are. |
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PsychoDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 04:46 AM Response to Original message |
47. I support a woman's right to choose. |
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sweetpotato (678 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 05:49 AM Response to Original message |
49. Don't mess with the Patriarchy |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 11:20 AM Response to Reply #49 |
57. The weird thing is all cultures have stuff like this, even ours |
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sweetpotato (678 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 11:32 AM Response to Reply #57 |
59. Different people, same patriarchy. nt |
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WilmywoodNCparalegal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
56. Let me put it this way, |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
61. I oppose requiring it, but don't think that it is the most important issue |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 07:47 PM Response to Reply #61 |
65. yes indeed |
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Spinoza (766 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
62. On the one hand, |
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Spinoza (766 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-27-06 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
63. The ratios between men and women |
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