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If you try to engage a woman wearing a sheitel in conversation, I don't think it's the same thing as trying to communicate with a person whose face is entirely unseen in a burqa.
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And many ultra-Orthodox women would not communicate with a man not-her-husband except in cases of necessity. They certainly wouldn't be open to small talk. And? So? They're still allowed to live like that, if that's how they like it. You couldn't get me to live like that for a million bucks, but so what?
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We live in a culture that works on a currency of communication, verbal and otherwise. People dressed like the Amish or Hasidim or Catholic clergy or in hijabs/niqabs or any other "religious" dress may be "separate" and live with different mores, but I think we can all agree that this modified dress still leaves open the possibility of communication with the wearer, wheras the burqa rather obviates that.
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So it is necessary for our dress to communicate openness-to-communication? What if I wear a t-shirt that says "Don't talk to me"? Same difference, no? I am not obligated to want to talk to anyone I don't want to, and neither are Muslim women wearing the hijab.