Guardianistas and the burka

From today’s Guardian letters:

There may just possibly be Hegelian arguments for total body coverage, but these have been trashed by mixing them liberally with the froth of modern mores.

(Note the mixed metaphor: mixing arguments liberally with froth turns them into trash.)

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Even women in high heels, whose minds have been numbed by the abstract freedoms of late capitalism are able to engage, eye to eye, expression to expression, with those they come into contact with.

I think I’ll send them to Pseuds’ Corner.