Women Oppressed: The View from Iran

Over at Dharma Bums, (one of the most interesting blogs I've stumbled across)  Rexroth's Daughter writes "My former job at UC Santa Cruz as the assistant director of student media gave me a great opportunity to meet some fine, creative students" -- one of whom was an Iranian-American  woman who has recently returned to Iran, and has this to say about the cultural contradictions:

So from my own observation, I saw my cousins watching barely clothed women shaking bare ass while they had to wear a scarf and cover up. It was a trip because you have images from an outside world looking and dressing one way, but then having a government telling you to dress another way. When I asked how my grandmother felt about Americans thinking the women of Iran were opressed she laughed really hard and said, "If women in America are being told to look and dress one way and the women in Iran another...well then there is no freedom for women anywhere. I don't want to come to America just so I can discard my scarf and show off my goods like in a meat market and on the contrary, I don't want to be told to cover up...but then again...we are women...show me a place where women are free and I will show you a lie."