Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Doctors warned about ‘dry scooping’ fitness fad - BBC News" video.

It makes me very uncomfortable to see a British woman - especially a well educated, western British woman, wearing a hijab - an item of clothing designed to conform with primitive, middle eastern males' standards of modesty.
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@ryanbiztech9181 "Says more about you than it does about them." No, no it doesn't. Covering hair WAS a sign of female modesty back when Britain was still a nation under the patriarchal thrall of Christianity. And now 120 years later, we have discarded that pathetic religiously founded bullshit and women do not have to hide their hair or faces to appease men or god. The very fact that women STILL wears hats or hijabs or burkans in strongly RELIGIOUS communities is PRECISELY the point. For a well educated white women to surrender the cultural advances in her own society in order to adopt the oppressive standards of a primitive pariarchal culture is the point.
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@KalHiwatari No, my argument is rock solid, and the fact that your only counter-argument is a quibble over grammar or vocabulary, pretty much discounts your opinion as worthy of consideration.
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@ryanbiztech9181 She's 100% entitled to exercise her freedom, and if she chooses to dress modestly, that's up to her. However, her CHOICE and her mindset unequivocally derive from patriarchal views of the female body as being a source of temptation that must be covered up. You see it in Christianity and in Islam. If a woman exercised her "freedom" to never leave the house, because her neighbourhood was so dangerous, you would not truly consider her free would you? I'm sorry but historical context matters, so yes, in many cultures wearing revealing clothing DOES represent female emancipation from patriarchy just as black business success represents emancipation from racism. Just because someone has failed to recognise that their thought process is a consequence of oppression doesn't mean it isn't.
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