So if a man with brown skin tells you that you need to cover your head, you aren't allowed to drive, you can't leave the home without a chaperone... that's all fine. But if a white man (interesting that we've established that I'm white and a man) says that all of that is oppressive to women, they are in fact somehow wrong by virtue of their whiteness and man-ness?
if a man with brown skin tells you that you need to cover your head, you aren't allowed to drive, you can't leave the home without a chaperone... that's all fine.
When did I say that? I said listen to her and the women who know her community and not project European ideas of morality onto people without knowing the context. There are almost 2 billion followers of Islam in the world. Maybe, just maybe, the experiences and needs of different Muslim communities are different and we shouldn't universalize what it means to be a Muslim woman. A Muslim woman in New York City lives in a very different circumstance than a Muslim woman living in Tehran.
But, in any case, is the solution to a "man with brown skin" telling her what she can't wear is a white man coming in and telling her what she can't wear? Either way, she's a helpless object with no voice, power, or autonomy who needs help from a man. Fuck that. Listen to her, and the women from her community. They probably know something.
You said white men are not allowed to weigh in on this question. So brown men are? What about brown women? If a brown woman demands that you not leave the house without a chaperone, are they correct by virtue of their lady brown-ness? Or is it possible that the argument has literally nothing to do with my skin color (which isn't white) or my gender (which is not male)?
You talk about women being told they need to have a chaperone on a threat replying to an image. Where is the ladies chaperone in that image?
If there isn’t a chaperone in that image, are you assuming there is a chaperone there? Why are you assuming that? If you aren’t assuming that, then why are you independently feeding the idea of a male chaperone into an image without a male chaperone?
As many times as you make assumptions that aren’t in the image, the image that is the initial post for this entire thread, I will ask you to back up and explain why that assumption is relevant to the image, or more specifically the woman sitting next to the drag queen.
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So if a man with brown skin tells you that you need to cover your head, you aren't allowed to drive, you can't leave the home without a chaperone... that's all fine. But if a white man (interesting that we've established that I'm white and a man) says that all of that is oppressive to women, they are in fact somehow wrong by virtue of their whiteness and man-ness?