On this I entirely agree with you. I want those women in the mall shopping for nice comfy shoes, in the library picking up books to read, and on the city bus taking their little daughters to school. I want them turning out with their families to watch fireworks and parades. I want them strolling in the Public Gardens and going down to the waterfront to watch boats go by. I want them out there enjoying life the way I enjoy life, beacause they are my sister humans.
In addition, though, I also think a right is only meaningful when the opposite right exists.face and body under metres and metres of cloth--but telling me I can't even if I want to isn't defending or protecting my right to choose my mode of dress, it's saying, "You can only have this right as long as you don't use it in ways we don't like." This demotes it from an actual RIGHT to a removable privilege, which can then be removed from other people too. (Something I don't have a problem with in the case of gun ownership, but that's a different matter.)
Besides, I am reserving my own right to wear a full-face covering just in case I'm ever in a horrible disfiguring accident.
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Date: 2010-09-19 12:47 pm (UTC)In addition, though, I also think a right is only meaningful when the opposite right exists.face and body under metres and metres of cloth--but telling me I can't even if I want to isn't defending or protecting my right to choose my mode of dress, it's saying, "You can only have this right as long as you don't use it in ways we don't like." This demotes it from an actual RIGHT to a removable privilege, which can then be removed from other people too. (Something I don't have a problem with in the case of gun ownership, but that's a different matter.)
Besides, I am reserving my own right to wear a full-face covering just in case I'm ever in a horrible disfiguring accident.