100 years of “women’s chess”, and a whole human history of women’s oppression.

Right, my mistake, you’re not him. You’re just defending his bigoted point of view. However, it’s not a rule, its a fact, borne of circumstances that have nothing to do with inherent ability. Facts don’t reveal much without context.

The rule that women are inferior? Can you please take your time machine back to the ‘50s where you came from?

It’s a matter of common sense, for which I cite myself as the source.

I heard a crying man is half a man

I’m sure they’re just as capable, given the opportunity. Hillary 2016!

...citation needed.

Please, I wore my girlfriends skinny jeans to the grocery store. I’ve been called homophobic shit often just for wearing trendy clothes, let alone women’s clothes. And, in fact, I do own and wear scarves, mostly around my neck, but I guess I can wrap them around my head to get an education in feminism.

I guess if I were covered to the extent that I passed for a woman, then I might learn something about male privilege, but just being a man with open eyes is pretty informative, too.

A cross is a symbol of ‘80s Madonna and sanctimonious dipshits, as far as I’m concerned. If I wore one, again as a white man, I wouldn’t learn anything about male privilege. All of the lessons would be about expectations of masculinity.

It is just a piece of clothing, actually. Context gives the object meaning. If I wore one as a white man, no one would mistake me for a devout Muslim female. If these girls wanted to do Tie a Scarf Around Your Head Because it’s Fun Day, with no religious connection, it would have happened without interruption.

I’ll try. If your reasoning is sound, then applying it to a comparable situation should give us a similar conclusion, right? So, since I’m white, and I listen to black rappers, if I hear a musician use the n-word in a song, do you think I am causing them to be oppressed? According to you, they couldn’t hope to reclaim…

I totally agree that Islam, in general, and like other religions, institutions, and other constructs, is misogynist. I’m not in favor of it. I’m not sure how that extrapolates to denying little girls the chance to ask their peers to try on some different clothing for a day.

I would be happy to see most aspects of religion removed from public life. I think proselytizing is basically repugnant and people should keep their religious beliefs closely-held. However, education is compulsory for everyone, bringing various communities together in a single place, and since a school is supposedly a…

So it’s not the women covering themselves, then, it’s the westerners who tolerate covering that to some extent empowers oppressors? Basically, someone like me, who thinks it’s essentially innocuous to wear hijab, helps make the stoning of adulterers possible? Is that right, or are you going to move the target again?

Right, Islam is patriarchal and misogynist. Great point.

I’m not trying to change your mind, just understand your argument. If you really give so few fucks, I’m not sure why it’s necessary to say so.

I think acts of solidarity are by necessity limited in scope. You can’t include everyone’s issues at once.

As far as women and others being second class citizens, the constitution and sharia aren’t so divergent. My guess is that most people who cover themselves are not hardcore adherents of fundamentalist Sharia, so I think it’s okay to chill out about it.

Everyone experiences some sort of pressure to meet some standard of modesty, or immodesty. I’m sure you feel pressure to wear clothing for some things at least sometimes. Is getting dressed anti-feminist? According to you, it seems like it would be.