What sickens me to the point of tears is that Rick Perry hasn't even bothered to learn who, exactly, he's oppressing with this bill.

"All life is sacred" "No life is trivial in God's eyes"

You're killin it (excuse my word choice) all over this article.

Thank you!

We'll monitor it from afar and gauge the situation.

He's on the list of celebrities who I love who better not fuck up because I don't know what I will do.

While I don't doubt the moral fortitude of Kristin Bell and Dax Shepard, the "I'm not getting married until everyone can" always reminds me of Ryan on The Office refusing to stay married to Kelly because he won't get married until everyone can.

Yes, it did. But I read it as being geared more toward reminding readers that the women who wear headscarves are more than just symbols.

Yeah really. And as if her talent as a model had anything to do with this case?

How do we help?

Well, as you saw, my response was not to you but to the person who replied to you. That's how Kinja works - each thread contains multiple microdiscussions. It can be a lot to keep track of but you'll get the hang of it! One way to do so is to only respond to specific responses to you (you'll get a notification of…

Right, me neither. My point is that rather than focusing on the hijab itself, it's more important to focus on the conditions surrounding it.

Your anecdote about your sister in Egypt is just as filled with empty rhetoric as my anecdote about women I know who are not in any way disempowered or dehumanized by their hijabs. Painting an entire country's men with one broad stroke does not only not move the conversation forward, it halts it.

I have the vaguest memory of that book and of course it's Vera Williams! Thank you for helping me find it!

It did get animated!! A bunch of the Ezra Jack Keats books got animated and put on Children's Circle VHS tapes! Along with Moon Bear.

I was about to come here and write about Ezra Jack Keats!

That's a terrible false equivalency but I'm thinking you know that.

Actually, I think the tone most people, including the author, are taking is that focusing solely on the hijab itself does nothing for women. It really doesn't. What it does do is paint Muslim women as a group who need to be "saved" by white, western feminists. A group without their own agency. Some Muslim women who…

But how does restricting the religious rights of women who want wear the veil help those who are forced to?

I know you don't need my validation. But you said that I was using "racist speak" to say your view isn't valid and that is not, in fact, what I was doing.