Re: To #19236 regarding burkhas

It's all about freedom, the freedom to eat healthy food, free of adulteration,
freedom to breathe healthy air without pollutants, etc., the freedom
to dress as you see fit. You are free to dress in a burkha if you so desire,
not something I would care to do, but to each her own. I do hear you about the
pressure to be beautiful and "measure up" in our culture, that is definitely
the reality. However, I take issue with your saying that the men who were
hired as newscasters did so just on their ability and not their good looks--
I think they are suffering from the same bias.

BTW, it is considered environmentally incorrect now to wear perfume in the
workplace, and as for low-cut tops, perhaps after hours, but that is
frowned upon in most business offices. I thank God/Goddess that I do not have
to follow a dress code where I work (in a public university in liberal
Northern California); we can wear beach attire to work and get away with
it! (I don't mean a bathingsuit, but shorts and a tank and flip-flops). We
like it that way. The students dress like that, so we office workers can do
it too. Not all offices on campus are that way, some are more formal, but
those in the departments of academic study, which is where I work, can do it.
After working in such an environment for the past 25 years I do not think I
could handle a "normal" work environment! LOL
But your point is well taken, I am also dismayed by the pressure to conform
and "dress for success" in many working environments--phooey on that, who
needs it? We don't get real high salaries where we work, but the ambience or
environment is a tradeoff, to my way of seeing things. Tweet