RE: Stupidest religious clothing
November 22, 2015 at 5:19 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2015 at 5:20 pm by Regina.)
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This... garment.
Not even knocking women who choose to dress modestly. You can tell when it's a choice and "empowering", there are some hijabi (head covered but not face) Muslim women who have actually made some pretty sick fashions out of dressing modestly, using bright colours and modern pieces. That's a woman who has found empowerment in modest dress and I respect that. I don't see how being dressed in a black curtain from head-to-toe can possibly be considered "empowering" though, it completely strips your identity away.
I just find the face covering excessive and an identity issue, especially in Western societies where not showing your face is considered anti-social.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
