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    2 days ago

    My coworkers are fighting to be able to wear hijabs

    Which shows that this was never about freedom for women to dress however they want. I don’t know how it is in the US but all over Europe Muslim women have to constantly fight against societal and sometimes legal discrimination against wearing the hijab. Even when the state doesn’t get involved like it does in France, you still have to deal with other people around you looking at you with either fear or disgust and treating you differently because of how you choose to dress, not to mention the fact that sometimes there are outright physical attacks. Westerners don’t want women to dress the way women want, they want women to dress the way western men want them to.