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Would you bother going to a meet up if you knew everyone was going to be veiled?

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ClementClarkeMoore · 07/12/2006 17:43

I'm not meaning all Muslim, not talking religion here so please don't bring it up.

Just for the sake of argument ...... would ya?

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ClementClarkeMoore · 07/12/2006 18:26

I think though if you have already built a rapport with someone online you go to 'see' them.

You'd have to be pretty shallow to judge by beauty, it's in the eye of the beholder anyway.

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ClementClarkeMoore · 07/12/2006 18:28

There you go peeps the two ends of the spectrum from mn posters.

One says 'odd question' another says 'very interesting question'

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WhenSantaWentQuietlyMad · 07/12/2006 18:30

I am almost completely tongue tied on this topic as I don't want to say something that I then reconsider and be permanently tarnished as the MNer who thinks XXX.

I suppose if I felt I knew the people wearing the veil and didn't perceive it as a stand-offish gesture then I wouldn't mind at all.

Blu · 07/12/2006 18:30

It would increase the chances of some hairy handed truckers getting in in disguise - that would add to the excitement!

WigWamBahhumbug · 07/12/2006 18:31

But what would it be that you were going to "see"? The face doesn't define the person; we are more than what we look like, and meeting someone is about more than being able to see their face.

WhenSantaWentQuietlyMad · 07/12/2006 18:31

Love the idea of hairy handed truckers under the veiil - but wouldn't we be able to see their hairy hands???? And maybe even hairy eyebrows?

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ClementClarkeMoore · 07/12/2006 19:07

To see what they look like, just basic curiosity.

If everyone walked around masked you may very well walk past a person you know without acknowledging them (otoh that might be quite handy ).

I'm sure if you were blind you'd certainly miss not seeing your childrens faces?

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StrawberrySnowflakes · 07/12/2006 19:11

i dont like not being able to see peoples faces, you can suss them out, go off their expresions and those mask type things of films like eyes wide shut scare the feck out of me

PeachyIsNowAChristmasFruit · 07/12/2006 19:19

Love carmener's answer LOL

But yes I would. Why ever not? Seems a little bizarre to me. Just people you know, people and fabric. Voices and laughter come through fabric.

PeachyIsNowAChristmasFruit · 07/12/2006 19:21

LOl at the Hairy Handed Truckers- as if there are hoards of them flicking through active convo's right now looking for meet ups to infiltrate in costume

SHHHHsantaiscoming · 07/12/2006 20:27

I wouldn't see it as any different as taking on the computer so I wouldn't bother. IMO though !!!

SHHHHsantaiscoming · 07/12/2006 20:27

I wouldn't see it as any different as taking on the computer so I wouldn't bother. IMO though !!!

Monkeytrousers · 07/12/2006 20:39

No I wouldn't. Is it a 'meet' up or a 'check her out' up?

But also if it was all women (sorry, but you can't get away from the religious inference) they wouldn't be veiled anyway.

I think the whole veil debate is idiotic. Thousands of people now have an opinion on a situation they will never find themselves in. Go figure

Monkeytrousers · 07/12/2006 20:40

Doh, I mean yes I would still bother, no I wouldn;t not go :P

Monkeytrousers · 07/12/2006 20:42

What about a masked ball??

paulaplumpbottom · 07/12/2006 20:44

Maybe its that some of yall would feel out of lace because without a veil you would be in the minority. You would probably feel very exposed. I imagine in their day to day lives these women of the veil feel very exposed despite being covered. Its no fun having everyone look at you funny or treating you diffrently.

2nervesnapartridgeinapeartree · 07/12/2006 20:46

PMSL Carmenere.

SantaGotStuckUpTheGreensleeve · 07/12/2006 20:47

In my case it has nothing to do with feeling exposed, paulaplumpbottom. It has everything to do with not wishing to waste time and money travelling to meet people who do not wish to meet me.

MerryChristmasfromQV · 07/12/2006 20:52

Yes, I would.

Monkeytrousers · 07/12/2006 20:53

I bet it's a great leveller! Imagine having to express yourself without the fashion and makeup and everything? Or not being judged on them either??

Monkeytrousers · 07/12/2006 20:54

That's probably it, isn't it? Without the hints, it just feels like too much hard work.

..I dunno, I'm quite warming to the idea.

SantaGotStuckUpTheGreensleeve · 07/12/2006 20:56

Wow, yes, what fun!! Tell you what - we could dispense with the physical cues altogether and just set up a sort of "online community", with pseudonyms and everything, no pictures, just personalities laid bare......

Oh.

Monkeytrousers · 07/12/2006 20:57

Oh come on Greensleeves! (Hi BTW) How do you know you're going to meet anyone on your level at any kind of meetup like the Mumsnet one? I'm not intimidated by a bit of cloth. And I'd have imagained you too feisty to be too!

SantaGotStuckUpTheGreensleeve · 07/12/2006 20:59

But tha's the point, I haven't mentioned intimidation, that's an assumption that keeps being made . My point is that it would be no more personal or meaningful a conversation than this one is - so I wouldn't bother!

SantaGotStuckUpTheGreensleeve · 07/12/2006 20:59

(And hi, MT )