Don’t talk to me about local hijab customs when Israel is banning baby formula, ok?
Don’t talk to me about local hijab customs when Israel is banning baby formula, ok?
Multiple overseas doctors have said they cannot even bring in baby milk on their person while allowed adult anesthetic and saline and other standards for basic or care. It is just baby milk. And their mothers have no milk as their bodies deprioritized lactation as their bodies started cannibalizing muscle to survive, Women at this stage of starvation are increasingly miscarrying, that is if Israel with its us artillery doesnt burn their tent. First. Eventually, they will be so starved they won’t need pads, or rather tent cloth washed out in brackish unfiltered water. Because Israel has denied those too.
Women and children first when it comes to starving them. Make the aid a free for all where only men can fight for it while of course Israelis and Americans shoot them. If you aren’t male, you physically don’t have a chance in these conditions.
But the ziofeminists don’t focus on that at all but on the hijab. As if that is the top feminist issue.
(Jul 8 2025, 8:37 AM)Elsacat I don't know why it's so hard for so many to understand: People can hate both the violence of Hamas on Oct 7 2023 and also hate what Israel is doing to Gaza. To hate and fear and speak out against one is not to support the other.
(Jul 7 2025, 11:09 PM)Wrongtoy But the ziofeminists don’t focus on that at all but on the hijab. As if that is the top feminist issue.
(Jul 8 2025, 8:37 AM)Elsacat I don't know why it's so hard for so many to understand: People can hate both the violence of Hamas on Oct 7 2023 and also hate what Israel is doing to Gaza. To hate and fear and speak out against one is not to support the other.
(Jul 7 2025, 11:09 PM)Wrongtoy But the ziofeminists don’t focus on that at all but on the hijab. As if that is the top feminist issue.
An appeal to women’s rights has been part of every Western incursion into the Middle East for decades. Hijab fades as a priority when the pre-eminent concerns are 1. Women and kids getting disproportionately bombed in air strikes and 2. Starving when their men are shot at by the Israelis or unsuccessful in fighting other guys to get it. This issue of clothing is used by westerners to effect certain stereotypes that help justify war, and that’s my problem with it.
Short answer:
There is an imperialist agenda when feminists in the Global North criticize mysoginistic practices in the Global South such as hijab, e.g., when documentation of the genocide of Palestinians became widespread news, many "radfems" advocated for it since "hijab = oppression, therefore good riddance". Claiming to "hate both things" ignores the geopolitical fact of how the West dehumanizes Islam to justify interventions in the Middle East, moreover how the West influenced hijab becoming mandatory in the first place by militarizing groups for regime changes to get control over the region (case in point, Afghanistan before/after US interventions)
Long answer:
The Global North excels in justifying atrocities (genocide of indigenous people, violent regime changes, economic isolation/sabotage, etc.) by dehumanizing the Global South.
What was everywhere in media when the genocide in Palestine became news globally? "Hamas is doing mass rapes... Hamas is decapitating babies... Hamas is using human shields"
All of these claims that --to the surprise of no one in the Global South-- later were true not for Hamas but for the IDF. Yet at the time you would see it everywhere in media, and in "radfem" spaces there was the blasphemous statement of "the feminist stance is to support Israel".
Not only that but considering geopolitics, it is at best ignorant at worst hypocritical when feminists from the Global North criticize hijab.
How did it become mandatory in the first place? What happened, for example, in Afghanistan for these mysoginistic practices to be so strong? Land based communities (especially those influenced by communism) tend to be more egalitarian, and that was the case of Afghanistan, so what happened?
The USA militarized groups for a regime change, extremist religious groups at that. Long story short, they created the villain then pointed fingers from afar to justify even more interventions ---the perfect modus operandi for the world's biggest bully.
As of today I am yet to see any campaigns from women in the Global North that provide tools of resistance for women in Afghanistan. The same can be said about any other country in the Global South affected by Western interventions.
Are you doing anything to stop your government's interventions in the Global South? In the Middle East? Otherwise any criticism of hijab feels empty --especially given how loud and aligned with zionism the "radfem" voices in the Global North are-- and (un)intentionally falls into this modus operandi of the USA/West.
You got me thinking into how an efficient strategy for women's liberation would look like. I mostly reframed what I wrote here, but this is the post: https://vexxed.org/o/TakingAction/2713/women-in-the-global-south-should-militarize-while-women-in-the-global-north-shou
(Jul 9 2025, 12:41 PM)alefia You got me thinking into how an efficient strategy for women's liberation would look like. I mostly reframed what I wrote here, but this is the post: https://vexxed.org/o/TakingAction/2713/women-in-the-global-south-should-militarize-while-women-in-the-global-north-shou
(Jul 9 2025, 12:41 PM)alefia You got me thinking into how an efficient strategy for women's liberation would look like. I mostly reframed what I wrote here, but this is the post: https://vexxed.org/o/TakingAction/2713/women-in-the-global-south-should-militarize-while-women-in-the-global-north-shou
(Jul 9 2025, 12:59 PM)alefia Nevermind, it got taken down. What was it, 5 minutes?
(Jul 9 2025, 12:59 PM)alefia Nevermind, it got taken down. What was it, 5 minutes?