sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
Response: Exactly. You claim that the solution is self-determination, regardless of what people wear. Now where is the evidence? You have none. No study says that being uncovered prevents promiscuity than being covered. Not one. Nor can you walk the street covered, then uncovered, and show that the reaction to being covered is more lustful. So your non-evidence refutes you, exposes you, and debunks you. Demonstrating once again that Islam has the solution, rather than your warped ideology.
People get raped all the time when they're appropriately dressed. It's not just women who walk around wearing next to nothing. In fact, I'd wager that there are less rapes on the beach where women wear bikinis than there are on a winter night in a city.
The problem here isn't promiscuity. The real problem here is objectivity. Mid-Eastern, Islamic culture dehumanizes women and treats them, not as self-determining individuals, but as objects -- property. Just as one locks up one's house to keep out the thieves, one also "locks up" one's women to keep out the perps. And I suspect not because it's bad for the woman, but because 1) it looks bad for the man who "owns" her, and 2) it helps protect the honor of the perp. the culture is deeply rooted in the paradigm of honor being imbedded in the male, and shame being imbedded in the female.
The problem (getting back to the topic of the OP) is that middlle-Eastern, Islamic men have to control everything, because it is their God-given right to own whatever is not male and Islamic, and therefore up to their honor to keep it all under proper wraps. The black sheet is a metaphor for ownership and control. And it's why they don't like democracy -- it allows for equal rights and no entitlement.