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I need feminism because other people shouldn’t shame me for wanting to be a single mom
This. Fucking this. Always.
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Love this! It’s so true & perfect!
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This is why gender neutral bathrooms are necessary
Some places around here have gender neutral bathrooms...
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All things truly wicked start from innocence.
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His shirt reads “They gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.”
You are a bad-ass.
Kenza Drider, a 32-year-old mother of three, was famously bold enough to appear on French television to oppose the law before it came into force. She refuses to take off her niqab – “My husband doesn’t dictate what I do, much less the government” – but she says she now lives in fear of attack. “I still go out in my car, on foot, to the shops, to collect my kids. I’m insulted about three to four times a day,” she says. Most say, “Go home”; some say, “We’ll kill you.” One said: “We’ll do to you what we did to the Jews.” In the worst attack, before the law came in, a man tried to run her down in his car.
Since France introduced its burqa ban in April there have been violent attacks on women wearing the niqab and, this week, the first fines could be handed down. But a legal challenge to this hard line may yet expose the French state as a laughing stock.(source)
Whether you agree with wearing burqa, niqab, hijab, or any other religious garment, as individuals and as a collective government by and for the people, you do not have the right to dictate what religious practices other citizens follow.
Look, there are plenty of places where women are forced to dress in ways which are oppressive. There are also plenty of women who choose to dress in a modest manner because it is part of their religious tradition. We shouldn’t be banning burqas or niqabs, we should be speaking up inside our own communities to make certain that women are respected in all parts of their life, that they have the freedom to choose to dress modestly or not—even if they choose to do so.
By banning the niqab, you’re actually oppressing women who choose to wear it. Wait, I know, but hear me out, here. You accept that women have the right to choose what the wear, right? You’re a modern person who accepts that women have the right to every choice a man has, including dress, right? Then, if they choose to wear a niqab, by your own logic they should be able to do so.
Denying them the right to dress modestly if they so choose is no different from denying a woman the right to dress in a short skirt, if she so chooses.
It’s a symbolic victory, but a victory nonetheless. It’ll change little about the law (transsexuals in France still have to go through hoops just like in the US, and still have to rely on doctors instead of being able to make their own medical decisions), but it is a victory.
Being transsexual is no longer a mental illness. Transsexuals are no longer “ill”. At least in France.
Insha’ Allah, the rest of the world will follow this example.
France wants to study the small but growing trend of burqa wear, with an eye to possibly banning the Islamic garment from being worn in public, the government’s spokesman said Friday.
Luc Chatel told France-2 television that the government would seek to set up a parliamentary commission that could propose legislation aimed at barring Muslim women from wearing the burqa and other fully covering gowns outside the home.
“If we find that use of the burqa was very clearly imposed (on women) … we would draw the appropriate conclusions,” Chatel said. Asked whether that could mean legislation banning the burqa in France, he responded “why not?”
