I know that. That's why I said "burqas etc." Because the word "burqa" is what is used in the article, but I don't really feel like parsing it as a million commenters have already done.

But on second thoughts, you do have a point about islamaphobia in the USA (I'm not in the US btw). Maybe she should wait until the islamaphobia dies down before she trolls people's religious sensibilities.

There's plenty of US military presence in countries that happen to be catholic (south america), but that still doesn't mean the USA is at war with catholicism or that catholicism is a helpless, powerless victim.

Read my comment again. I said covering is not compulsory and that there are a range of different interpretations of what hijab means.

Madonna converted to judaism a few years after that jewlery incident happened, though. I know that many women choose to cover for religious purposes, but it is far from compulsary and there are a range of interpretations of what "hijab" means. Also, women who choose to wear hijab wouldn't put it on and take it off…

Yeah, I don't like the comparisons between this and the appropriation of native american stuff either. 1. native americans don't want to convert anyone to their religion, but islam does actively convert. 2. burqas etc are native to a small area of saudi arabia but are worn by women around the world in places that were…

I don't mean that all female guitarists get reduced to their novelty value, but it is pretty common. Too common. Also, I'm here googling all of these female guitarists as Jezebel readers recommend them and I'm still seeing too many boob and sandwhich comments on youtube and it makes me sad. :(

I've heard Orianthi! It's not my style of music, but I like the fact that she kicks ass and has enough confidence to play with Vai and Michael Jackson. I know there's a few up-and-coming female guitarists in Japan as well. And that's a good sign. But I just want more women to be taken seriously on guitar, to be making…

On the one hand, I love seeing this because shredding. I love shredding! I want to see more women shredding.

Looks like a tortoise.

I'm like a fucking python. If I eat a big dinner, you can tell what I ate for like a week later.

I can't do handbags at all. What would this study make of me? Also, when other women flirt with my husband, I don't feel any desire to buy an expensive purse. I just grab his ass and hang onto while carrying on whatever conversation.

The Dark Lady of DNA was a great book, too, by the way. I know they made a TV movie version of her life, but I don't think it does her justice. I'd love to see a more 3 dimensional film version based on the book.

Certainly, if W&C hadn't obtained Franklin's data in an underhanded way, her paper would have been published first and their "discovery" would probably be viewed in a more realistic light now and we would hear about "Franklin, Watson and Crick" instead of just "Watson and Crick" all the time. The only reason W&C gave…

I can't figure out what you're trying to prove here. Yes, Franklin did make other contributions to Watson's and Crick's work which were above-board and kosher. That in no way cancles out that they obtained the information mentioned in the next paragraph of that wikipedia article (the one that begins, "The other…

So if you present Idea A in person, then it's Ok for someone else to underhandedly obtain a paper you have written on Idea B (while it is in the process of being approved for publication) and then capitalise on it?

This is going to show my age, but when Del Rey asks what happened to Brooklyn, all I can think is, "You! You happened to Brooklyn, Del Rey. You and your friends."

Watson is still alive. Let's send him hatemail.

Um what? You're trying to say that the Native Americans didn't "do" anything with the Americas? Ok, dude, whatever.

And he shared the Nobel Prize!