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J.D.Regent
11/22/08

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Yeah the rich women and girls of Egypt all get transported around in private cars with drivers, so they never actually have to deal with the CONSTANT HARASSMENT on streets, minibuses, trains, and taxis. It is a sure sign you are looking at someone very upper class if she is dressed in tight jeans and free flowing hair. Any woman, wearing the hijab or no, who has stepped foot in Egypt, is laughing in disbelief right now.
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queenjulie
11/21/08

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She is sort of the Gwyneth Paltrow of Egypt, no?
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blazedom
11/22/08

@queenjulie: How so??
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suck_it_monkeys
11/22/08

@blazedom: Entitled, smug, blind to the hardships all around her. See: GOOP.
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applejuice
11/21/08

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"Let them eat cake."
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AliyaBabasaur
11/21/08

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She may just be totally oblivious to it, perhaps because she probably lives in Cairo and in a more cosmopolitan social environment. Lots of well-to-do, socially moderate Muslimas in Cairo don't where hijab and are probably not as pressured to do so as women living in more provincial communities...

It's probably kind of like being an well-to-do woman living in affluent Mumbai, she exists in a completely different social and cultural sphere than a woman living in Dharavi, and even more so than a woman living in rural, tribal India. It may be acceptable for her to marry a person of another caste or even another religion, where this would probably be an grossly difficult thing for a rural woman to accomplish.
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suck_it_monkeys
11/22/08

@AliyaBabasaur: Excellent point and very informative, thank you.
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Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!
11/21/08

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I realise that she wouldn't openly say otherwise, but...honestly!
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tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock
11/21/08

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She has what I'm going to refer to as the Helen Mirren Effect going on.
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musicpup
11/21/08

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I have an irrational dislike for this woman ever since she came to Germany to visit a hospital where my school's choir performed for her and her companions. She made us wait for TWO HOURS because she randomly decided to go Christmas shopping.
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PhillyLass
11/22/08

@musicpup is mad as a sack of badgers: Well, that anecdote confirms what this post is telling us-- that she's so caught up in her own little world of luxury and privilege that she has no sense of how her actions impact other people.
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Penny
11/21/08

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Unfortunately, this kind of disconnect on the part of the super-rich, powerful and/or politically connected is not uncommon.
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MIXED
11/21/08

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grrr. i don't want to feel this stabby on a Friday night.
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hellosunshine
11/21/08

@mixed: The ONLY reason I'm not is because I'm very hungry and into two glasses of wine, so I'm feelin' fine. Will be stabby tomorrow.
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