Post #3469079

2026-06-29 11:52 UTC

That thread was so ew I’ll freely own the fact that I’m a western, white, woman and can never fully understand the cultural and greater context surrounding the choice as to why a Muslim woman, or a woman of any religion, creed, race, upbringing, etc would desire to wear a piece of clothing that would to me, with my cultural and greater context, be a symbol of my oppression. The cool part is that I don’t have to understand why she would make such a choice, to support her right to make such a choice. If you want to support womens rights, you can’t go around trying to restrict us. If you are concerned that women who are making these choices are doing so under indoctrination, coercion, etc, then instead channel your energy into making sure they, and all women, have safe places and resources to address those things.

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@AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 2026-06-29 14:24

It’s also ew that they pretend advertising and propaganda to change minds of muslims wouldn’t work. It totally would. You just need a good campaign specifically targeted to the patriarchs and matriarchs to make more liberal attitudes to clothing fashionable. It would totally work. And at the same time work against the influence spreading of Saudi Arabia pushing their extremist wahabism schools. That’s where they should use the hammer.

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@Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-06-29 17:02

Absolutely this, agree 100%

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@Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 2026-06-30 20:18

The cool part is that I don’t have to understand why On most social issues, this is exactly what should be going on in everyone’s head. So many people are about punishing what they don’t understand, but it almost always backfires. If we wanted to address communitarianism and extremism in secular society we would do better than criminalizing people’s harmless religious expression.

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