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.

  • a_jug_of_marx_piss [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Do you have a source for the claim that most women who wear hijabs are doing it because of external pressure? Is this pressure any different from the pressure for women to cover their breasts?

    If a western woman moved to a country where covering your breasts was seen similarly to wearing a hijab, it would still be understandable if they wanted to dress like they are used to, right? Then, actions letting them keep wearing tops would be enpowering and actions encouraging them to not wear tops would be disenpowering. Of course the choise should be up to them in the end, but as a society, we should not try to "free" them from their culture, because it would add to their oppression.

    • vorenza [any]
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      4 years ago

      Then, actions letting them keep wearing tops would be enpowering and actions encouraging them to not wear tops would be disenpowering.

      That isn't the context for the defense of hijab though.

      Of course the choise should be up to them in the end, but as a society, we should not try to “free” them from their culture, because it would add to their oppression.

      Please read my post again. I'm not saying that they should remove their hijabs, i'm just saying that since western leftists have never lived in a muslim-heavy country, they don't know what hijab might mean or how it is used or what the cultural norms around them, and defending it as a sign of "modesty" is a wrong defense of a woman wearing a hijab.