Madam, – Mairin de Burca (April 15th) made an interesting point regarding women’s apparel and their cultural motivations.
According to Ms de Burca, by wearing either the face-veil or appearing half-naked wearing 6-inch stiletto heels: “Both are trying to fit themselves into male fantasies or at least some male fantasies.” However, she fails to make the point that, not all, but many of the wearers of full-face-veils are subject to numerous forms of duress including physical violence if they don’t comply with the male fantasy whereas the “half-naked 6-inch stiletto” wearers freely opt to dress in their attire to fit into male fantasies. – Yours, etc,