Even if you do something that is an oxymoron, that doesn't invalidate your position. I don't know if this is a good comparison, but I guess you could ask the same with makeup. Even if I don't do it by choice and wear it because I'm being pressured into it, doesn't make me less of a feminist or "weird" or whatever. Peer pressure can be very very subtle and we have a lot of internalized stuff going on that we may not have noticed is there yet

It’s simple: if she wants to wear it it’s fine. If it’s because they are forced to because men are so weak they can’t handle seeing any of a woman’s skin than no, it’s dumb.

Yeah I ain't touching the rest of this thread with a 10 foot pole.

Almost sounds like a bunch of French people trying to rationalize their shitty "hijab ban" laws which exclusively target Muslim women.

Hijab/niqab are a tool of the patriarchy. They keep women subservient to men. Abrahamic religions are inherently patriarchal and misogynistic. Women don't wear them because they want to, they wear them because they feel they have to.

Not if men made you wear it. Or men made you think you must wear it.

Side-comment: what a surprise that the account posting the surface-level (quite possibly disingenuous) comment has what appears (to me) to be an AI-generated profile pic of a (conventionally) attractive slim blonde woman! It's almost like it's not an actual woman making the comment, and they're making the comment primarily for/towards other non-women...

More seriously, it reeks of the same tone as Musk's "concerning." tweets.

Rage bait

I seem to be in the minority here, but I totally support her wearing one. In some cultures me wearing clothing covering my top half could be seen as OTT but it's really important to me that I wear it. Covering my top half when meme don't automatically have to can be seen as patriarchy, but I would feel awful without wearing tops.

Hold on, you can't be a real feminist, you're wearing a hat ! 😂

In real life, the thing you can't do to if you're a real feminist is (attempt to) force other women to wear, or not wear, a particular type of hat.

A woman wearing a t-shirt saying "Fuck Feminism"

Feminist of not?

These kind of posts were pretty common post 9/11 as well. People who don’t actually care about women suddenly super concerned about this issue. But ask them about the issues closest to them and they are definitely not supportive of feminism.

100% agreed and, indeed, people try to shame hijab wearers in my presence at intense risk of their eardrums.

The people who say things like the top person are the same people who claim that they're feminists when all they do is attack trans people.