Outsider- seriously? Much harder not to drive a car on Shabbos? Sure. It’s WAY harder to consciously not pick up the car keys and go to the car and drive it than to make sure your skirt is below your knees at all times. For sure. Come on, you are obviously not a woman. It happens all the time that you put on a skirt in the morning, look in the mirror and your knees are covered. As you’re walking, the movement causes the skirt to slide up and suddenly your knees aren’t covered anymore. And yes, sometimes the woman may even be aware of it, and not stop to pull it down because the yetzer hora keeps telling her that she’s already late, and if she keeps stopping to pull down her skirt she’ll be even later. It’s not like putting on a kippah, and or tzitzis where you can put it on in the morning and it should be fine for the rest of the day. Although you think it’s hard on you not driving, if you live out in a place where it’s hard to get anywhere by walking, I’d assume you have no eiruv. So I’d say it’s way harder for the women not to carry than for you not to drive. A woman with a child who cannot walk yet who lives near you cannot leave her gate for all of Shabbos… Sorry for going on so long, you just got me a bit riled up.
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