well, what also *really* matters is she would have made that choice (ever) if it wasn’t the only/”best”/most dominant option she was presented?

Bingo! The best case scenario: she’s alienated from her family, the worst case: she’s beaten or even murdered.

Yeah, I’m not sure where this “Well just ask Muslim women why THEY wear their hijab” argument keeps coming from, like there aren’t millions of Muslim women who left their respective countries specifically to escape the sexist culture. I dated a Persian guy for 4 years when I was younger and he had a mom who left Iran…

Or maybe YOU should consider asking some of the Muslim women whose opinions on the hijab don’t conform to your smugly self-congratulatory “inclusive” Western feminist ideology. For example, here’s Sarah Haider, founder of Ex-Muslims of North America and an absolutely brilliant and brave young women, sharing her…

I agree with you that women are free to practice whatever religion they want, to wear a hijab if they want, and I think L’Oréal is being pretty business savvy with this ad.

It’s completely cool if a woman chooses to wear a hijab and feels happy and complete because of it. What really matters is what happens when she chooses to take it off.

I’ll say again. Head coverings are the example at hand, I’m not singling out Islam. My comments apply to any misogynistic and patriarchal system that present women with a “false choice” regarding their behavior.

I fully respect however Muslim women wish to think or feel about their religion. But it doesn’t change the reality that Islam is a patriarchal system that dehumanizes and controls them.

Women are free to feel however they wish about it. But opinions and feelings don’t change the reality that this custom only exists in the first place to dehumanize and control women within a patriarchal religious system. This is true of any misogynistic custom, I’m not singling out head coverings, it’s just the…

the above is an elderly woman who wears one because its cold, that is not the same as wearing 1 because your religion says that otherwise men get horny

this is about more than “business” - its about celebrating the Hijab and re-affirming that women covering themselves is a valid part of our society

Nothing smashes the patriarchy like celebrating a custom of a patriarchal religion meant to dehumanize and control women.

How are we to tell if this product works , she could be bald under there , we’ll never know.

Women are cast as the moral backbone of the society, so they become the custodians of sex. It’s men’s to take and women’s to keep. A woman’s worth is tied to how fiercely she guards it, so boys are conditioned to think ‘good girls’ say no and they are the ones worth pursuing. Her worth increases the more they have to…

There is no ban on headscarfs or hijabs. No sane woman covers her whole body and face in a burqa or niqab, depriving her of free movement and sight, making her sweat like a pig in the summer heat, unless a highly oppressive religious worldview tells her to. Just watch scenes in Syria and Irqa of ISIS freed…

That’s not how it is. It’s not about that, but about safety and equality in public spaces. I totally agree with the French concept of “secularity” and wish they would take all God talk out of US politics/the public sphere — and our currency, please.

I honestly don’t think we should at all respect values that put women and gays as sub-human. That just doesn’t go against “western values”, it goes against what it means to be a human. What it means to be decent. It goes against the justice, equality etc. So basically I have zero respect for these cultures until they…

Well, when women run for president they are just so arrogant, and entitled and overly ambitious. Unlike men who run for president, who really just tripped and accidentally fell into the presidency. /s

The article is fine, the comments are a shitshow. There’s a whole bunch of Beckies in their feelings because they think a Brown woman is shitting on their interracial relationships. The number of women pretending to be completely oblivious to their relative position of privilege and the fact that they as white women…

Back in the Dark Ages (1969), my mom got her dream job just before college graduation as a flight attendant for Delta Airlines. Travel the world! Be glamorous! Avoid the wandering hands of lecherous businessmen!