Women of Cover.

[ANNE V. GILBERT]

Mark:

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From: "Mark Odegard" <markodegard at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 6:02 PM
Subject: Women of Cover.


> Bush said 'women of cover' twice in his press conference. The first time,
I
> thought he had mangled 'women of color'. The second time, I started
> thinking, and speculated he was talking about veiled Muslim women. CNN
later
> suggested this was indeed the case.
>
> I confess I have never been able to take 'women of color' too seriously;
it
> sounds too portentiously-pretentiously politically correct. I confess the
> same about 'women of cover'. Why not just say 'veiled women' or the such.
>
> A word of the year candidate perhaps?

I"m not to happy with the "of color" phrase meaning people of non-European
descent.  "Women of cover" sounds even worse!  I realize that "women in
traditional Islamic garb" or the like may be a bit to wordy, but, why not
"covered women"  Or something like that.
Anne G