Speaking as a Christian, Steph Weakley (Letters, February 2) argues that it is wrong to interfere with women’s rights to cover their faces because one of the most basic freedoms in a wonderful country like ours is to dress as your beliefs and customs dictate. I have a friend, a committed naturist, who sincerely wants to be true to her beliefs and practices by attending her local church dressed as she was when God gave her the gift of her first breath. She is even prepared to wear a fascinator out of respect for the church’s belief that women (though not men) should cover their heads in the presence of the Lord. Will Steph and her fellow Christians welcome her? Glen Coulton. Marmong Point
More Letters: See: http://www.smh.com.au/national/letters/todays-migrants-are-tomorrows-seniors-20100202-nax6.html
Do I look big in this?
Anna Dear; 3/2/10
No, sorry I don’t want to come out and show you. That’s right, you, 19-year-old sales assistant with impossibly perfect pins. Nor you. You, wearing those high-waisted floral shorts, try kicking your way round the sales rack. And no, I don’t want to show you either, bored boyfriend sitting on the chaise longue, flicking through tired copies of Vanity Fair from 2007.
See: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/do-i-look-big-in-this-20100202-nb1c.html