Who do you think is more repressed by their cultures standard of dressing for...

I

imported_Sweet_P

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...women, Muslims or Western women? Muslim women:

- Have to wear a scarf over their hair
- Have to wear long sleeves
- Have to wear loose clothing
- Sometimes have to wear a face covering.

Western women:

- Have to curl, straighten, bleach, dye, blow wave, iron or perm hair

- Have to elaborately paint their faces each day

- Have to stay rail thin, while miraculously having a disproportionately large chest and hips

- Have to spend hours finding and thousands of dollars on flattering clothes

- Have to wear high heels

- Have to wear stockings

- Have to get manicures, pedicures

- Have to wear bras

- Have to endure painful waxing, sugaring, electrolysis

etc.



Is it just me, or is it a little twisted for us to accuse Muslim women being suppressed for having to wear loose clothes and a head scarf?

Thoughts please.
 
There's not much comparison here. i doubt any western woman would be disowned by her family or stoned to death for not plucking her eyebrows.

Muslim women are more repressed; in most cases, they don't have a choice. Every example you brought up for Western women was something they choose to do.
 
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