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In reply to the discussion: I do not need... Eurocentric feminists to dictate to me what I wear or shouldn't wear. [View all]Deep13
(39,154 posts)It's only a suggestion. Protestors are in no position to insist on anything. Obviously, you can wear a headscarf and even a veil if it really is your choice. I have a language professor who wears one here in Akron, Ohio, USA. Many of the students are from Arab lands so those women wear them too. No one, except maybe her own family, would blame her if she did not. I have friends in Jordan who wear them. The law there does not require them, although I hope you and everyone else realize that there are ways of enforcing behavioral codes other than the law.
The protests I have seen from FEMEN are not directed at clothing, but at the idea that masculine honor is connected to feminine modesty. This gives men a pretext for controlling how their wives and daughters dress and behave. Unfortunately, as in the case of majority-Christian societies, women enforce conformity with social norms, even when it is against their own interests.