I feel pity for those pressured &exasperated by those making an identity related point
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What's important to remember is that the garments are epiphenomena resting on a deep structure of belief.
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Islam is structured around controlling reproduction and keeping it strictly within stable family units.
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In that context, gender segregation and modesty are rational and consistent.
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What's required is not flipping out at surface phenomena but rather a root and branch critique of the beliefs.
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Agreed. Too few ppl see 'choice' & stop. Whole framework of gendered oppression underlying ideas of modesty
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Yes and no. Gendered oppression is not really the right lens either, especially for critiquing women's choices.
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Obviously Islam contributed historically to the fitness of the nomadic tribes that adopted it, women and men.
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The critique in my mind is rather technological disjunction...
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