Letters to the Editor
fetboy
Published Letters: 1226 Editor's Choice: 22
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Sexually appealing faithfulness.
[Read the article: Burqas vs. lips like "a goose anus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With the attention my deconstruction of BS65 go, I am little disappointed that no one addressed my question; does being a more committed Muslim make you a more sexually appealing person?
Deborah Solomon's question about the reductive qualities of the veil was loaded, as it was an attack on Marjane Satrapi's faith to suggest that Marjane Satrapi was indifferent to the oppressive Iranian theocracy. If Marjane Satrapi said the veil was reductive, then she would be seen as going against her faith, and if she said it wasn't, then it would seem like she was supportive of the Iranian theocracy. Marjane Satrapi skillfully flipped the attack by impressing upon the viewer that the pursuit of sexual appealing perfection (or prefliction rather) is a lot more reductive to women than being religiously faithful will ever be.
But back to my question; today I have asked every man I know, who has experience in the Middle East or other Muslin nations, whether he found heavily veiled women sexually appealing? The answer was a resounding yes. And from my own experience I have to agree. I remember once standing in a lobby of a very extravagant Hong Kong hotel, and spotting a woman dressed from head to fingertip to toe completely in black cloth, with only her eyes showing. I was transfixed on her for three reasons. Firstly because I knew she was single and had never been touched by another man, secondly because I knew she was also looking at me, and thirdly because, although I was only looking into her eyes, it felt like I was awash in her soul.
Had I not been married at the time I can't say what I would have done.
Faithfulness and loyalty of any kind is extremely sexy.
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The Future of the Wizard (Witch) World.
[Read the article: Dumbledore? Gay. J.K. Rowling? Chatty.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rebecca Traister, you are being a little unfair. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and the rest of gang just completed a tumultuous 7 years of imaginable horrors, and still managed to defeat the greatest evil the Wizard/Witch world had ever known. The gang deserves 10 or 15 years of down time before the next great crisis grips their universe. Do you really want to know the daily nuances of the day to day life of Harry and Ron as Aurors, or Hermione's careers as a lawyer? Give them a break. An 18 year old boy is not going to step into the head master position of Hogwarts in chapter two of book 8. In fact the next installment of the continuing saga of the Wizard/Witch world (please J R Rowling make it for us), could possibly be a whole new series altogether, with a new lead character, say, Lupine and Dora's 11 year old child (or my hope, a story about a free and money earning Dobby the house elf).
The point is J R Rowling could go anywhere she wants with the universe she created, and I hope her fans give her the creative space to do whatever she wants.
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Apology to J K Rowling
[Read the article: Dumbledore? Gay. J.K. Rowling? Chatty.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry I meant to call her J K Rowling, not J R Rowling. Must have been a Freudian slip.
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Anonymous on October 23, 2007 08:17 AM
[Read the article: Burqas vs. lips like "a goose anus"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]u wrote:
"On the otherhand maybe the Burqa with naqib is the answer. People wearing such getups could be ugly as sin and we'd never know."
It really depends upon your definition of beauty. I will admit that some women and men look very beautiful naked (and in fact my favorite porn star is an Arab woman), but there is more to beauty than what the eye can see. For me personality goes a lot further to reflect a person's beauty than their exterior appearance does, as I am one of the ugliest men I know (fit, but not at all good looking). Voice tone, tact, subtle emotional expressions, posture, sense of humor, manners, morals, values, and the displaying of intellectual and emotional strengths are what inspires my interests a lot more than how good a woman looks (though I do like to look at women naked, but even in that area I bet my interests are quite different than yours, assuming that you also like to look at women naked). Eyes, hands, and feet (and of course the genitals) are the parts of the body I find most erotic. The feet because they reflect out humanity and spend a lot of time touching the Earth, hands because they can be used to control the world, and eyes because they reflect the soul within (and genitals for the obvious reasons).
Also, from what I have heard and learned physical ugliness is not a sin (and no religious text anywhere says that it is).