Re: Assimilation

1

I saw that same woman coming out of Victoria Secret this weekend. It struck me as odd.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 2:40 PM
horizontal rule
2

In Richmond, of course.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 2:41 PM
horizontal rule
3

You think Muslims don't like nice underwear? Oppressor.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 2:43 PM
horizontal rule
4

I knew someone was going to go to the same place as 3. It would not have surprised me at all in the lingere department of a nice department store but Victoria's Secret, of late, has a distinctly slutty vibe. It was a definite contrast next to the mannequin crouched on all fours with her butt in the air wearing a hot pink lace thong.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 2:46 PM
horizontal rule
5

"It" meaning "Her attire".


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 2:46 PM
horizontal rule
6

A female friend of mine who's done the Hajj, says that in women's mosques (even in Saudi), the women are often wearing short skirts, cropped t-shirts, etc. underneath the big robes. The injunction is to be modest in public, but in private or in all female gatherings, no such injunction applies.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 2:47 PM
horizontal rule
7

"A female friend of mine"

s/b in "Heather Does Hajj"


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 2:49 PM
horizontal rule
8

but Victoria's Secret, of late, has a distinctly slutty vibe.

And you were there buying? Oh, yeah...[old seventies soundtrack sounds].


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 2:52 PM
horizontal rule
9

I was once waited on at a state (liquor) store in Philadelphia by a teenage girl in a headscarf. It was odd.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 2:54 PM
horizontal rule
10

I can't believe you people joke at this dhimmitude.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 3:00 PM
horizontal rule
11

Two porn references in a row. You people...


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 3:00 PM
horizontal rule
12

Putting the ass in assimilation.


Posted by: Tassled Loafered Leech | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 3:25 PM
horizontal rule
13

Putting the immolation in, too.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 3:31 PM
horizontal rule
14

14: I always get the worst burning sensation when someone puts the immolation in.


Posted by: NCProsecutor | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 3:35 PM
horizontal rule
15

14 --> 13


Posted by: NCProsecutor | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 3:35 PM
horizontal rule
16

As I've mentioned before, I see interpretations of "modest Muslim dress" on display in my neighborhood every day that would turn the head of even the most jaded Maxim and FHM reader.

I stopped at the only real food co-op left around here and the two women at the counter were (1) a punk rocker with huge (>1") claw-style plugs in her ears and (2) an East African woman in very modest dress with hijab.


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 3:40 PM
horizontal rule
17

Which co-op was that? I remember going to one in Linden Hills with my mother as a kid. Is that one still around?


Posted by: JGO | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 3:47 PM
horizontal rule
18

Linden Hills is one of the several consumer coops. I.e. no working members. North Country Co-Op is I think the only real working-member co-op left in Minneapolis. The Linden Hills one was still around the last time I was over there 2 years ago.


Posted by: minneapolitan | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 4:26 PM
horizontal rule
19

Victoria's Secret to please the husband is not un-Islamic at all. Islam is among the religions allowing sexual intercourse.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 4:29 PM
horizontal rule
20

Seventies soundrack sounds

Don't stop believin', Tim!

(Is Journey more properly speaking of the 70's or of the 80's? I seem to remember them getting a lot of airplay when I was in Jr. High in the early 80's, but somehow I associate them more with the 70's. All I can really remember of them besides that horrible song, is the trippy graphics on their album covers. Them and Asia.)


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 6:22 PM
horizontal rule
21

(Okay well I just checked their Wikipaedia entry and I remember several abominable songs of theirs.)


Posted by: Clownaesthesiologist | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 6:24 PM
horizontal rule
22

re: 20

Someone I know (a friend of a friend) was actually in Asia (along with a number of other similar bands). Stories of pomp rock excess are often prefixed with 'When I were in Asia ...'


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 6:29 PM
horizontal rule
23

Who?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 6:57 PM
horizontal rule
24

Nigel Tufnel.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 7:14 PM
horizontal rule
25

Elaine Sciolino has an interesting note in her book Persian Mirrors about an all female party with a bunch of upper class Iranian women, and how amazing it was to see them throw off their robes for stunning and saucy dresses. Doesn't lingerie sell quite nicely in Iran?

I myself am fairly modest dresser in public, but I do like my fancy lingerie.


Posted by: Ile | Link to this comment | 06-11-07 8:27 PM
horizontal rule
26

On one of the major downtown streets in Cairo, there are numerous lingerie shops. The window displays have the most slutty underwear I've ever seen -- tacky red "lace" bras and panties with cut-outs, see-through baby-dolls, etc.


Posted by: alif sikkiin | Link to this comment | 06-12-07 8:52 AM
horizontal rule