inspired by lemmitors at https://lemmy.ml/post/49343381
any guy in it just for women to wear skimpier clothing should probably be investigated.
Me, a hijabi, opening that thread for all of 10 seconds
I'm sure there will be well-balanced and nuanced discussion from the men of Lemmy on choice feminism and women's oppression! I'm sure of it! /s
Don’t you know you’re oppressed! Please call me a white knight please!
there is such an amazing video by Lady Izdihar that would be extremely relevant but I can't find it 😔
Lady Izdihar rules.
“I can’t go outside without wearing a head covering.”
“Head coverings are now illegal.”
“Now I can’t go outside.”
This makes the world more fair and equitable.
Here’s a wild idea, instead of making clothing illegal, why don’t we make coercing people into a manner of dress illegal?
That thread was so ew
I'll freely own the fact that I'm a western, white, woman and can never fully understand the cultural and greater context surrounding the choice as to why a Muslim woman, or a woman of any religion, creed, race, upbringing, etc would desire to wear a piece of clothing that would to me, with my cultural and greater context, be a symbol of my oppression.
The cool part is that I don't have to understand why she would make such a choice, to support her right to make such a choice.
If you want to support womens rights, you can't go around trying to restrict us. If you are concerned that women who are making these choices are doing so under indoctrination, coercion, etc, then instead channel your energy into making sure they, and all women, have safe places and resources to address those things.
Absolutely this, agree 100%
Everyone believes they're choosing freely, especially when they're choosing what their culture taught them to want.
That applies to literally everyone and doesn't justify anything, men are no less or more immune, and the choice should be the one who is or would be wearing or not wearing a given piece of clothing on whether they do or don't wear it. Neither men nor the state should be taking the agency for women to decide for themselves what to or to not wear.
At best this makes your comment unrelated, random, and pointless, as it says nothing. But we both know you are actually providing cover for the misogynist view that women shouldn't be able to decide for themselves. It's not exactly subtle, not even slightly, in fact it is infuriating. So please, look deep inside yourself, reflect, and STOP!
Lol that thread is a cesspool but I'm glad in classic lemmy fashion, its not shadow banned or locked.
I don't want to add more fuel to the flames but it's a case example of why I don't take the EU seriously when it comes to free speech laws or claims of "secularity".
France and UK were out here blocking Bosnia from arming itself during the genocide carried out by Serbia because they didn't want a muslim country to exist in Europe.
feddit banned luigi and pro gaza content because it's apparently illegal to discuss those topics in Germany, as if an internet forum talking about foreign news needs to be regulated by the government.
It's not as bad as reddit, but there are some seriously god awful comments on that post trying to justify poorly disguised ethnic filtering laws.
Hijab is not a choice, but a strong form of operession on women.
Women need the agency to decide for themselves, and not have the decision made for them by men, or the state. The only way any clothing is really oppressive is if it isn't a choice, and in that way "not being allowed to wear" is the same as "being forced to wear". It seems like you are defending the choice being taken from women under the mask of pretending to support the choice being given to them, by pointing to something not even being argued about as the covering mask, like a strawman.
If women were choosing to wear hijab with out the cultural, familial or state pressure you’d see women doing exactly that from other parts of the world where Islam isn’t enforcing it, you don’t see that because it’s not a free choice being made, acquiescing to pressure isn’t actually a choice.
With or without culture it is not your decision to make O Enlightened Savior!/s This thread is so full of poorly hidden sexist and racist nonsense that it is sickening. The western world is not the savior of the world, it is it's oppressor, and the oppressor's feigned concern while it eye's those resources of the oppressed licking it's lips, can only be inauthentic from such a position, clean your own house before trying to use the level of cleanness of someone else's house as some kind of excuse.
Wherever you find Muslims in the world, you will find someone wearing hijab. If you punish women for wearing it, you are not better than those who punish them for not wearing it.
But what if.. it is? It very much could be, just like nuns clothing.
What a rabbithole to go down.
I agree no one should have the right tell someone else what to wear, but that doesn't mean it isn't a tool of oppression in other cultures
You have no idea about other cultural norms and attires. Is the western man being oppressed when he has to wear a tie and suit to the office in order to keep his job? Do we free him from this oppression by ostracizing him or making it illegal for wearing a tie?
It's like making it illegal for women to wear makeup and thinking you are "freeing them of cultural values originating from patriarchy."
I personally would like governments to NOT force a specific gender to look a specific way.
I think all adult women should be able to wear whatever they want.
Americans scrapped Roe vs Wade but think bikini = equality
I am ready to get my next ban for linking the paradox of tolerance.
This is not the gotchya you wish it was.
This is goofy. Not one of us can wear whatever we want in USA (and many other countries). All sorts of rules on dress.
Dress codes for restaurants (jackets and ties required)... dress codes for schools (uniforms)... dress codes for jobs (uniforms)... dress codes for gas stations (no shirts, no shoes, no service)... dress codes for banks (can't cover your face or wear sunglasses)...
This is a false issue, used to inflame the dumbest among us. Sadly, it still works.
If you're one of those people super against hijab, do a say, duckduckgo image search for "women in headscarves". You will see many cultures represented. They aren't all Muslim, even. Which ones are 'bad' and which 'good'? Would you also ban Orthodox Christians/Jews, or Hindu women from covering their hair? Rasta women?
The whole idea of wearing a piece of clothing for some god is cringe as fuck.
Cringe must of course be eradicated by the state.
Calling what others like to do "cringe" is the cringiest thing of them all
A Turkish acquaintance of mine from a long time ago introduced me to the idea of reform Islam. I didn't know that it existed, but she was a practitioner. She didn't wear a hijab, she swore when she felt like it, and she wore shorts when it was hot outside. Her prayers were usually sitting quietly and humming to herself when her phone alarm went off. Whenever we did an art project, she'd do this big long prayer to dedicate it.
Nice girl. Hope she's doing okay.
Idk how it's so difficult for westerners to understand that not all Muslims who consider themselves practicing Muslims observe all parts of the faith. There's so many Catholics who disregard lent, hardly anybody listens to the dietary restrictions, there's almost none who acknowledge Jesus' teachings on wealth. Do all Catholics choose not to use condoms? Do all of them have the same opinion on abortion?
But I do realize it's part of looking at the out-group as a monolith at best and a hive mind at worst.
I think a lot of the reddit type atheists are so far removed from religion in general they only view religious people as a cartoonishly idealized strawman that has no thoughts other than what their book says and their preacher teaches, who every second of every day is thinking only about god and how to be more godly and who believes the simplest interpretation of their religion. I have encountered it quite a few times as well since my username "outs" me as christian.
It's that plus for muslims the sheer racism that makes for a particularly potent mixture of arrogance and ignorance resulting in this weird "white savior thats sneering at their lessers" postings
Type anything negative about Israel and the entire comment section is people saying how this doesn't representat Judaism even when nobody mentioned it
But type something negative about Muslims and all the Reddit Athesists get in line to dunk on them and explain how evil they are. Gleefully discussing about publicly discriminating their clothing.
https://tariqacknickulous.substack.com/p/arabs-and-muslims-the-real-victims
Noam Chomsky highlighted this shift through his own experience as an American Jew, noting that by the 1950s antisemitism in the U.S. had been pushed underground, and Jews were gradually integrated into elite institutions. In its place emerged a new “legitimate” racism: anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias. Unlike antisemitism, which by the late 20th century had to be hidden, hostility toward Arabs and Muslims could be expressed openly in films, books, politics, and policy:
“Antisemitism is no longer a legitimate form of racism. Anti-Arab bias, is a legitimate form of racism, meaning you don’t have to hide it. In most forms of racism you have to pretend you’re not a racist, so you have to pretend ‘I’m not antisemitic, I’m not anti-Black.’ You may be, but you don’t advertise it. Anti-Arab racism, you’re allowed to advertise. This was way before September 11 […] you see it in films, in books, in attitudes, it’s just not even hidden. Nobody will come out and say, ‘I’m an anti-Arab racist,’ but it’s everywhere, and every Muslim or Arab in the country knows it.
