Are Muslim veils/scarves prolonging female equality?
It may be a personal choice to look like one of Mohammed’s wives – if you aspire to being one of 11 (?) – but is it really helping other women in their desire to have equal rights?
How many women in government do you see wearing them?
How many women on TV do you see wearing them?
It may be a ‘choice’ – but is it really doing your fellow women a favour? Demonstrating that women should be naturally shy and downtrodden by men?
It is a symbol that can be given different meanings. In some cases those meanings are progressive, and in others regressive (probably most cases). If women freely choose it though, why is it your concern? How does wearing it mean that the woman is “shy and downtrodden?” She could be a badass
To other posters: I don’t think it’s necessary to uphold a woman’s right to wear a veil by disparaging other women’s desire to wear “revealing” clothing as bad or indiscreet or whatever.
Salman Rushdie on the muslim veil and Bhurka
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