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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're really just arguing to argue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm no? Please tell me how to distinguish a "regular" dress from a "religious" dress, when they have roughly the same coverage and no specific patterns. That would be helpful to enforce this new restriction without relying on the wearer's religious belief.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's a fucking clue: is a man FORCING them to wear it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, a bunch of men are certainly forcing them not to wear it now. I find it interesting that your answer to men controlling women is to have different men control the same women.

Edit: Honestly, fuck people who use religion as an oppressive tool. But, I find it really frustrating that people are acting like they're liberating women and girls by controlling what they wear. That's not liberation. These kids should be given access to confidential in school therapy and resources to report and deal with abusive parents if we're actually worried about them being oppressed. But that's not really what this is about.

Additionally, banning the abaya doesn't prevent oppression. If these girls are being forced to dress modestly and being made ashamed of their bodies, they will just be forced to dress modestly in a vaguely different way now. Acting like this will bring meaningful change to these girls lives is just theater.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You couldn't be a bigger idiot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you actually have anything to argue what I said though? Like... really. Your best answer to oppression is more oppression? And that makes me an idiot?