Image via Tumblr Blogger Muslim Feminists
I've really been enjoying the high signal to noise reblogging ratio on the Tumblr blog Muslim Feminists. She (or possibly he, or maybe they) find a lot of great posts and bring them together in one convenient-to-browse location.
I like this image a lot because it highlights the incontestable truth of gender policing of women's appearance... while also highlighting just what vastly different forms such policing can take.
And can I say somewhere around this point that it seems like a lot of assumptions about what's "innate" about hetero/patriarchal dynamics isn't so much about male desire for maximal "seed spreading" as it is about intra-male influence, status, and display?
I know I'm hijacking my own post here but it just doesn't make sense that men would prefer "nubile," barely pubescent women for reproductive purposes. Especially since very young women are generally themselves neither the most successful at reproduction either physically, psychologically, or... I dunno... call it "preparationally." Certainly not compared to more mature women.
Therefore there's got to be something else going on. But I digress...
Anyway, I've spent way too long enjoying the blog this afternoon. I'll just add it to my blogroll and you can decide whether you want to follow it too.
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There's one important
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 2012-04-14 04:21.There's one important difference between these women: The one in the bikini is not likely to get stoned (and not in the good way) for dressing like the one in the hijab.
Maybe so, Anonymous. Or maybe
Submitted by figleaf on Sat, 2012-04-14 10:41.Maybe so, Anonymous. Or maybe not. It all depends on where a woman tries to wear a hijab. For what it's worth, I grew up just an hour or two away from Murphreesboro, TN. It's not the only town, nor is the U.S. the only country, where wearing a hajib can get you (the local-community's violent equivalent) of stoned.
That doesn't mean I don't appreciate what you're trying to say. I'm just saying the cartoon is (correctly) including that element in an even broader point. Thanks. --fl
Of course, I am of the
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2012-06-28 22:12.Of course, I am of the opinion that both of them are often wrong.
The main thing I notice is that due to expressiveness of the face and importance to human individuality and communication, hiding the face, especially compulsorally, could be a major attack on human rights. No commen about the lesser Islamic garments which do not cover the face.