burqa

"A SYDNEY artist whose anti-burka mural has infuriated left-wing and Islamic activists is vowing that the provocative artwork will stay in place despite death threats, abuse, a string of vandalism attacks, a violent weekend protest and a police request to remove it. "




source:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/sculptor-sergio-redegalli/story-e6frf7jx-1225990694187


the anger obviously arises from the issues of racism and intolerance towards other cultures.
I was one to believe that it is extremely intolerant to ban the burqa anywhere in the world, however things have changed slightly...

take for example, the lily foot, a practice in china that survived a whole millennium.




if you don't know what the lily foot is, basically girls had the bones in their feet broken at a very young age and bounded til it was transformed into the shape you see above.

by "today's standards", this practice is extremely cruel and unjustified, i mean men finding deformed feet extremely erotic? urghhh

"Another attribute of a woman with bound feet was the limitations of her mobility and, therefore, her inability to take part in politics, social life, and the world at large. Bound feet rendered women dependent on their families, particularly their men, and, therefore, became an alluring symbol of chastity and male ownership, since a woman was largely restricted to her home and could not venture far without an escort or the help of watchful servants." - Wikipedia

yes, wikipedia isn't the best source, but my great grandmother was in the process of having her foot bound and I have been told the same things many times.

so this practice has disappeared as far as we know. the eventual ban of this practice was definitely due to foreign influence.



If i were to take a different perspective and judged this as a religious practice, would it then be intolerant for us Australians to outlaw this practice? Would it make me a racist if I deemed this practice inhumane?

if you knew anything about the lily foot, you'll know that it was definitely not a choice (your parents made that decision, its either binding your feet or you will be rejected by society). where as many people will argue that muslim women have a choice, but do they really?
if i told you, you had the choice to pay your tax or go to jail, is that really a choice?
if i said you had free-will as long as you do what i say or else you burn for eternity, is that really free will?

so, is it really "racist" and "intolerant" for us to ban something like the burqa in our own country?

you decide

denon

i bought some 50 dollar denon headphones last week (Denon AH-C252) to replace the horrid horrid potentially harmful to your health ipod headphones

i was extremely extremely disappointed, disappointed enough to never buy denon headphones again.

they sound just like the crappy ipod headphones if not worse, the cable feels cheap and rigid, whilst the headphones themselves hurts my ears, there is so much distortion in both bass and treble, feels like i bought these at a two dollar shop.

i will be making half arsed attempt to return them.

will be buying sony again when i get a proper job, hopefully i don't go deaf from these denons by then.

21st

thanks to everyone for coming! this picture sums up my feelings for the night pretty well! =D