Feminists

By her response when I complimented her on the headscarf - hers are quite colorful and attractive, really - I gather she does it voluntarily. It doesn't seem weird or oppressive at all. A lot of religions have peculiar dress codes: Sikhs wear turbans, Orthodox Jewish women also wear head-scarves or oversized wigs. In fact, the biggest flap here was about a Muslim boy whose over long shirts violated the schools' dress code. People were afraid he was smuggling weapons under there or something. While everyone admitted he was a good kid, who'd never caused any problems, the reasoning was "Well, if we let him do it, we'd have to allow the gangbangers..." as if any of them would have been caught dead wearing a high-necked, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt!

As long as it's the wearer's choice, I have no problem with it. Some days I even think it would save me a fortune on hair products and a lot of fussing before I left the house.