From Margaret Cho's blog. (yoinked from xamses)

The Taliban's view of women, which centers directly on our bodies, is based in fear. The basic philosophy behind all misogyny is the same. The details merely help us identify the longitude and latitude. Women's bodies need to be controlled because they are inherently dangerous. Why, I haven't figured out that far yet, but they apparently just are. To thwart danger, the women of Afghanistan are covered head to toe in fabric. The women of Hollywood are constantly remodeled and modified by dieting and plastic surgery, racked with eating disorders, bombarded with images of what to look like, so many that the images of what not to look like are relegated to artist's renderings and fear based fantasy portrayals. I think the ideal of youth and thinness is much harder to obtain and maintain than a burqua. Don't we need help from the women of Afghanistan too?

Thoughts?