If Leigh Alexander really comprehends nice-guy rage as little as she appears to in this article, she should stop by the blog Alvanista sometime; its main product is bottled nice-guy-rage distillate. Not that I blame its author -- and you have to love anyone who picks the nom de keyboard Cless Alvein. (You are expected to know who that is.)
Let me also observe that there is something mildly contradictory about the author of the blog "Sexy Videogameland" lamenting compliments and catcalls she gets in the street. The blog title (counting the chibi avatar on the banner) and the resentment do not match.
Given the character of her complaint, I want to ask -- and I mean this in earnest as a hypothetical, and not as an insult -- why she doesn't wear an abaya or a burqa; both garments have the sole purpose of giving men less to stare at.
The obvious answer is that one who dresses in such a fashion is assumed to be a footsoldier of Islam, and is likely to have experiences at least as uncomfortable as catcalls in consequence. But if there were no danger of this, would she still object to wearing Arab or Pashtun hijab? If so, there's something else that she values more than freedom from catcalls.
Incidentally, this is well worth reading, for sanity's sake.
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