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To: Ilaine who wrote (25867)	1/23/2004 12:24:50 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793866

We don't disagree about the headscarves issue, and about its being likely to be counterproductive in a big way. (Though I personally believe that it would be a bad thing, bad as in potentially dangerous to the public safety (it's a total-body, even gender, disguise), if the chador were to spread as street-garb in this country. Do you agree?) You introduced yourself into this conversation not with a statement regarding human rights, though, but instead with a nasty personal crack to me about nuance and intellectual drive. And oh yes, about personal insult. Which made me remember your odd post to Maurice Winn yesterday, in which I had noted your intellectually unnuanced (but surely driven!), sudden, even aggressive, introduction into the discussion of penises, testicles, vulvas, labia, clitorises and breasts. I imagine that boys and girls in places like New Guinea that -do- walk around with their privates and breasts exposed don't think I'm overstating the facts. I think the naked boys and girls in New Guinea are quite unlikely to be indignant that someone far away is told not to wear a scarf on her head. They should be, of course, insofar as they're civil libertarians, but your rhetorical presumption of them as allies could hardly be more comical.