Hike it up a little more, darling

Jessica Simpson's new show, "The Price of Beauty" has me mesmerized. I so wish that was my job.

This past week she spent time in Marrakech, Morocco- my hometown for a month. I was interested to see what she would say about the town and, as expected, she thought the women were oppressed and oh-so-sad because they chose to cover themselves more than Americans.

At one point, as she sat in her little hoochie shorts, one of the Moroccan women said that she probably could have covered more of her leg.

You'd think with all those producers and such she could have been filled in on the modesty of the country. Yes, they are modest. No, they are not all oppressed and helpless. In fact, they choose their level of modesty throughout their lives.

So anyways, I happen to be writing a paper for international communications on Moroccan dress and actually came up with a good paragraph pertaining to this situation.

"The argument has been made that “If we have to dress like them when we’re in their country (conservatively), then why shouldn’t they have to dress like us in our country?” The key is modesty. Your mother never told you that you weren’t going to school if you didn’t put a shorter skirt on, and your father never told you that your prom dress could use a little more cleavage. If someone came into America from a nudist colony and expected to parade around in their natural state, they would simply get arrested. And in that case, “they” do have to dress like us in our country. Government bans on the Amish head coverings “kapps” has never been an issue and asking Jews to remove their yarmulkes on the Sabbath is unheard of. That is because these days people aren’t afraid of the Amish and they aren’t afraid of Jews. Asking a woman to remove her hijab has nothing to do with wanting to see her hair and has everything to do with stripping her of her culture and identity."

So stick that in your back pocket.