Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!akgub!usl!sigma From: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spyridon Triantafyllopoulos) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: American women in Iran (abc's 20/20 12/13/84) Message-ID: <182@usl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Dec-84 18:31:05 EST Article-I.D.: usl.182 Posted: Sun Dec 16 18:31:05 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Dec-84 03:14:28 EST Organization: USL, Lafayette, LA Lines: 31 Any comments anyone about that? An American woman graduating, getting married to an Iranian and going to Khomeini's Iran... Putting on the veil (Chador in Persian..), stayin' at home and admitting in American TV that: "Men and women are not equal... you can not compare apples and oranges" Or another shot: "Islam gives respect to women -- The veil makes people look at you, not your appearance, this is freedom" and on and on. (Quotes as exact as possible). And the parents of the girl being happy about their daughter being happy (Typical "Hi Mom -- Hi Dad" shot). Well, me and my (Iranian) fiancee' watched with interest as the girl (one of ~500 in Iran) stayed home.... It was sickening..... Is this what some girls want?? freedom in four walls and a black veil??? We got some specimen around here as well, but they do not (dare not) wear the full apparatus.. They just use handkerchiefs on the head instead of the veil. (I mean American women) Well, ladies, what 'ya all think??? --- Spiros Triantafyllopoulos Computer Science Department University of Southwestern Louisiana {ut-sally, akgua}!usl!sigma