the way I look at
is that most of those women will need to leave the house anyway (since their husbands sure as fuck aren't going to be doing the shopping, picking up the kids and tidying the garden) so in fact they will still get out and about. And maybe now they'll have the option of face-to-face contact, and possibly the glimmering of a realisation that heaven hasn't struck them dead, and that maybe, just maybe all those pretty French woman with their uncovered hair and faces and lives and jobs and careers might have something right
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 21:08, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Yes
yes this is exactly what will happen. Absolutely. The fact that they've been walking around up until now seeing exactly the same things and yet they still choose to follow their religion in the way they do will magically change just because of the ban.

I really am trying to make this point as clearly as I can, this ban is not going to have any effect on women who choose or are coerced into wearing a burkha, they will still be in that situation. If you strongly believe this is wrong then you should look into how you can prevent this form happening, but I strongly believe that anyone should have the right to wear whatever they want to wear out in public if they so choose.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 21:40, Reply)

I'm not saying they will magically change
I'm saying that when they realised they're not being smited by God, sexually assaulted by men for showing a face or anything of the sort, that it might have some positive impact.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 22:06, Reply)