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The white woman was wearing a backpack(looking like a tourist). She was wearing fluorescent, neon colored clothing while everything and everyone around her was colored black and white.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

It's kind of a fuzzy thing, especially with so little context, but there's lots of reasons women wear veils and they aren't always doing so because they're forced by their families or governments like islamophobic propaganda often claims. There are cultural and aesthetic reasons, too, it's really not just a religious thing.

So by washing away all the context and agency, that kind of meme portrays the women of the Orient as 2 dimensional others, just a subject to irrational and oppressive religious rule.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I don’t know why I wear blue jeans. I guess I wear blue jeans because everyone else wears fucking blue jeans. If I grew up in a society that were nudists I’d probably be doing that shit too.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Couldn't have said it better. Many of those women choose to wear a veil even out of their home country because they like the modesty.

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