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.

  • vorenza [any]
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    4 years ago

    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.

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      4 years ago

      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