Women's Speech In Public
It is in fact the responsibility of the claimant to produce the evidence to prove that even the modest gaze is prohibited. In principle, everyting is allowed except for the ones prescribed to be prohibited or inference based on the prescribed prohibition or prohibited as something preemptive. In the absence of any such prohibitions, nothing is prohibited. On the contrary the social life of the era of the prophet confirms that no such prihibition ever existed.