Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school"

lmdnw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Your profile says “religion is cancer” yet you seem fine with forcing women to cover their faces because their religion mandates it and their father/husband doesn’t want other men seeing them.

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  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Okay imagine you move somewhere where all the guys go outside with their dicks out, but you don’t want to because you were raised to think your dick should be covered. Even without somebody explicitly forcing you to cover your dick, you’ll still instinctively want to do it because it’s a deeply held cultural taboo to go outside with your dick out, especially if you’re part of an immigrant community that still covers their dicks. Now imagine that your school says you have to go to school with your dick out even if you feel uncomfortable with it.

    Yes, the requirement for Muslim women to cover their hair is rooted in and perpetuated by misogyny, but ideas about modesty and decency don’t just disappear overnight and it’s kind of unfair for western societies to put girls in ththat position.

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    • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Would you make the same argument for genital mutilation or arranged marriages too? This isn’t about fashion choises. It’s about oppression. Not everything should be exported to other cultures.

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  • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I disagree with religion but I still think people should have the freedom to follow one.

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    • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No one’s trying to ban religions here - you just don’t get a free pass for barbaric behavior because of it.

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  • lmdnw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Who said I’m fine forcing women to do anything? Some women make the choice to wear religious clothing. I’m for the individual choice to do whatever you want with your own body as long as it doesn’t directly affect someone else’s.

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