Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Hey, I'm Tyler from the middle back of the classroom. I come from a suburb known as Olentangy . I wrestled in high school and I Ski. I come to Ohio State with the intention of getting a Criminology degree and I plan to get into federal drug enforcement using the degree.

"the veil masks erotic freedom, but its advocates believe hijiab transcends the erotic-or expands it". This shows how torn Asayesh is, she wants to practice her freedom and be comfortable but knows she will be looked down upon if she does, as she was earlier in the writing. This is the overall message of the writing, that women are often torn between their Islam culture because of the lack of freedom in expression that is expected of women. This is more of a problem with American-Islams who wish to embrace both cultures, which isn't an easy task. Iv always known that this is an issue, especially today when prejudice directed at Middle Eastern people is very high, but what I learned is that there is no actual punishment for breaking the rules of clothing in Iran, you are only looked down upon. I was under the impression that if someone were to break the acceptable clothing rules, that they were to serve jail time of be punished in some way.

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  1. I thought the same thing about them going to jail or being punished. I think everybody looking down on you is just as bad though.

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  2. I didn't realize that there was no punishment either, but reading this shows so much into there culture. It shows that they don't want to get looked down at that they value there culture and how people of there own look at them that they wear it when they don't want to. Unlike our culture where you can dress really anyway and not get looked down at all. Just shows a lot of difference between the two cultures.

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  3. In societies like that, usually religion plays are large role in law making so I was also surprised that you can not get in trouble. Either way I'm sure there is a punishment in society, like being shunned for instance.

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  4. I knew that there was no real punishment for not wearing it; it all depends on who is running things in that particular country. I thought that the writer was very clear about when she liked to wear the hijab, and when she did not. I just thought that (for her) it was unfortunate that although the rules about wearing it were not as strict as they are in other Middle Eastern countries (i.e. Afghanistan), that she still caught the third degree in her native country - just for not having it on correctly. It wasn't like she did not have it on at all.

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