Yeah since they’re not really choosing, we should definitely choose for them. The paternalistic irony is too much. *this is not nor has ever been how freedom for an oppressed people has been achieved.*

Telling women what they can and cannot wear is shaming. Forcing women to take off a symbol of patriarchy is doubly shaming and abusive. There are better more sustainable and less destructive ways to unseat patriarchy (I’d argue this could only reinforce religious zealotry and patriarchy).

“...whether those women realize it.” Ah, so now we must also tell women how to feel about their oppression, because they can’t come to their own conclusions through lived experience. Nothing has been gained through patronizing (often white) savior complexes, esp when historically they’re hard to distinguish from…

Oh sure, let’s defeat the patriarchy by paternalistically telling women what to wear. Not a vicious circle at all.