(January 20, 2020 at 5:50 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(December 10, 2019 at 10:18 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: The original purpose of what has now become traditional dress was modesty, and arguably justified as a way to protect women from rape in a barbaric time and region, but now it's purpose is tradition and a way to announce that you're a Muslim.
Disagree. Compulsory garb is exclusively for the sole purpose of subjugation of women. There is no getting around it. And I state that as a man.
I don't like it. I really don't like it.
Give me a feisty equal any day, not a letterbox.
I have two daughters ( or at least born as daughters) and nothing gives me greater joy that to have them tell me "Dad you are wrong" followed by a logical demolition of whatever the topic du jour might be.
I may have made many errors or mis-steps or whatever, but at the very least I can rest assured that I have provided my children with the tools of critical thinking.
And the upshot of that is equality. One lives and dies according to the facts, not some mad superstition about the "roles" of the genders.
So what is it that stands in opposition to gender equality? Well religion stands in opposition to gender equality. All of religion.
Sure, there are a few exceptions, but those are not many.
Loving your daughters so much should make you respect their right to think and decide how to treat their bodies, respecting the stereotype means that you don't really "respect your daughters' right to choose" but respect the "stereotype".
In other words I'm saying that there is no difference between your opinion, and the opinion of any extremist Muslim. You just happen to be born in different "stereotypes".