Maybe i'm getting brainworms from twitter and this isn't a real thing and there's nobody defending this, but there is no way in hell hijab is a way to show "modesty in women". I know that there is a lot of westerners who are assholes and prejudiced against muslims and a lot of leftists want to defend them, and you should defend them, but don't do it by defending backwards practices. Hijab objectifies women.
Most of the time, women who wear hijab are pressured into doing it by an external force. It could be their immediate family, their relatives or their neighborhood. This isn't a fucking trope, it's the reality of it. It is very rare to see someone who decides to wear hijab by themselves. Sometimes people who migrate to west choose to keep wearing it as a way to connect themselves back to their home, but it isn't a common reason to wear it.
I'm not saying attack hijab, because it is not your duty to criticize islam as an outsider(and probably you won't have sufficient information nor experience to do so), but when you see some assholes attacking a hijabi woman for her hijab, defend her right to wear what she wants(even if she's forced by her family to wear it), not the hijab.
idk hijabs are cute and it means you dont have to clean/do your hair as much so i get the appeal.
lemme do a liberal here. i have some muslim friends and they just see it as women wearing dresses or something. like in our society, dresses are seen as 'modest' and 'professional' or 'fancy' and also happen to be very quick to put on and you don't have to think about it. they're easy. they see hijabs that way. theyre kinda convenient at times and people see them as more professional looking, and it also means slightly less work for them in the morning.
Actually, you need a lot of pins and needles to hold your hair in place while wearing a hijab, depending on who you ask it is more bothersome to deal with that.
im aware that there is some styling involved but it also depends on the kind of hijab youre wearing or the aesthetic youre going for. one of the girls i know just grabs her hair, whips it around, put it in a messy bun, and then throw a hijab on it
like muslims have been very trans accepting and socialist / borderline irl for me so I think they are quite aware of how to dissect their own culture
yea, ngl, if it wasn't outside my cultural sphere, I'd probably wear one.