cartoon: women's clothing and feminism

[Squinch]

11. I don't accept that it is "usually" other women enforcing pathological levels of modesty. I

do understand that other women DO enforce them, but I think fathers and brothers do as much if not more, or at least more effectively (think honor killings.)

And, I believe if you go back one step and ask, "why would a mother require that of her daughter when she has experienced it herself" you will see that it is because it is the best way for the mother to keep her daughter safe and provided for in a culture where the daughter's only hope for safety and sustenance is if she attracts a husband who will give her those things. So the reason for the mothers' insistence on their daughters' modesty is to appease prospective husbands.

Once again, in those cultures, we are back to the women being forced to live within the confines that the men, and ultimately not other women, set for them.