Resource vexxed.org, a successor to Ovarit
Resource vexxed.org, a successor to Ovarit
Jun 29 2025, 9:25 AM
(Jun 25 2025, 8:46 PM)Wrongtoy Oh great now I’m getting downvoted over there for daring to say the hijab issue is, well, not the most imminent female priority. I do not understand the obsession with this overall whereas we see Sikh turbans and Chabad huge hats (they look Russian but I do t know the name) without any challenge or concern at all.
If I’m trapped in Gaza I’m prob wearing one of those even as a non Muslim considering I don’t have enough water or soap to wash it more than a month and its likely full of lice until I shave it off, at which point going around bald is not preferable. The bigger issue is that if I had an infant who survived, it would have been born starving or descending into starvation.
Some (not all) criticisms of hijab-ism is just a way for the critics to express Islamaphobic and deflect from the genocide being committed in Gaza. I think hijab and the non-voluntary imposition of "modest" dress is problematic regardless of which religion is being used fo impose it, but I think it's ridiculous to use this issue to deflect from the bigger crises happening right now. (It's similar to why I think abortion rights will always be more important than the trans issue for women - lack of access and restrictions on abortion will always kill and injure more women every year than trans-id'ed males ever will.)
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Jun 29 2025, 9:25 AM #31(Jun 25 2025, 8:46 PM)Wrongtoy Oh great now I’m getting downvoted over there for daring to say the hijab issue is, well, not the most imminent female priority. I do not understand the obsession with this overall whereas we see Sikh turbans and Chabad huge hats (they look Russian but I do t know the name) without any challenge or concern at all.
If I’m trapped in Gaza I’m prob wearing one of those even as a non Muslim considering I don’t have enough water or soap to wash it more than a month and its likely full of lice until I shave it off, at which point going around bald is not preferable. The bigger issue is that if I had an infant who survived, it would have been born starving or descending into starvation.
Some (not all) criticisms of hijab-ism is just a way for the critics to express Islamaphobic and deflect from the genocide being committed in Gaza. I think hijab and the non-voluntary imposition of "modest" dress is problematic regardless of which religion is being used fo impose it, but I think it's ridiculous to use this issue to deflect from the bigger crises happening right now. (It's similar to why I think abortion rights will always be more important than the trans issue for women - lack of access and restrictions on abortion will always kill and injure more women every year than trans-id'ed males ever will.)
