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Originally Posted by caroline  Do you know that the Bible gives very specific instructions to women about covering their heads? Paul outlines it clearly in ICor 11. It says that a woman praying or testifying without her head covered bring shame upon her husband (her head). Read it. |
the Bbile ain't exactly the brightest bit of human literature, let alone Paul's letters.
And anyway, 1 Cor 11 say women are to be covered only during prayer.
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From a personal standpoint I can tell you that Hijab is ANYTHING but oppressive.
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It is freedom, not oppression.
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It's not oppressive when women can choose to wear it. If it's compulsury, then it's opressive. And if I'm not wrong, the hijab is compulsory...
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Imagine if you had grown up going around naked and vulnerable and one day someone gave you some comfortable pants and clothes to protect you from the elements and to cover your private areas for the first time. Wouldn't you feel relieved and finally be able to walk around without feeling naked?
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It depends. If it weren't to cold and rainy and if other people were naked as well, I'd probabyl feel fine. Clothes would most probably annoy me, I might find them oppressive..
In traditional societies people walk around naked or semi-naked all the time and don't feel ashamed at all.
It's mostly the religious upbringing that inflicts us with "fear" of being naked. And there's also the idea of perfection brought to us by the media which causes low self-esteem about one's looks.