I have heard the same reasoning for a burqah from different muslim women....
On 6/12/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
course, but that's only the rubric. The real reason to wear the mask is to spare others the discomfort of seeing your facial expression, to make your face into a disengaged, unreadable blank--to spare others the discomfort of firing up their mirror neurons in order to model your mood based on your outward expression. To make it possible to see without seeing.
