If it was Christmas time, would they "dawn" their gay apparel? Or would they "don" it?
Or would they be forbidden to even mention it because it has to do with a Christian holiday?
Several years ago...I think shortly after 911, maybe a year or so later, one of my granddaughters was visiting me. She was around 5 years old at the time so I decided to have ‘’old fashioned day’’. We made a cake and used a wooden spoon to mix the batter instead of an electric mixer. We made the cake from scratch instead of out of the box, we wore dresses instead of pants, and I had some beautiful vintage aprons for us to wear in the kitchen.
We needed to go to the store so we work old full length coats..it was cold out, and we wore ‘babushkas’..kercheifs. You fold them into a triangle them on your head with the flat side on the forehead side and tie the trailing ends under the chin in a knot.
Five year olds love silly stuff and its a fun way to show a child how much fun your own childhood was. So, off to the store we went...on foot.
We got a lot of smiles and nods along the way, didn’t think anything of it, but when we went into the store, it was shocking. I KNEW these people and the big huge smiles, moving out of the way for us like we were royalty really stunned me! I wondered...what the heck is going on? The level of politeness was almost sickening because it wasn’t ever like this. On the way home, I puzzled it out...they though we were Islamic females with the head gear on!!
I never, ever did that again. As a regular shopper in that store, nobody was ever that cordial and I couldn’t help but wonder at the time what that was all about.
So yes, I KNOW what Islamic women ‘contend’ with as they wear their head gear in America. And, it’s NOT a bad experience. People want so badly to prove that America is a good place, that Americans are GOOD people, that we shouldn’t be hated (and by implication, bombed) that they go out of their way to be as kind and as pleasant as they can possibly be.
It’s no wonder that Islamics want to come here, and that they think we are weak pushovers. Its sad, and breaks my heart to see the good people of this country so slandered by the rest of the world.
Watch out for that political correctness. It’s intention is to destroy Americans.