• radix
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    1 year ago

    Is it a bad idea for me, a non-religious person, to wear one in solidarity? (As well as for privacy, sun protection, etc.)

    (I do not live in France.)

    • denny@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I fail to see why not. It’s just a dress. You shall wear whatever resonates with you.

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        1 year ago

        It’s not just a dress, unfortunately. It’s a dress, strongly associated with female oppressive rules of Islam.

    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      I have been in some pagan veiling online circles and have discovered that a lot of non-Muslims use Muslim-style veils and it usually is not considered offensive, so I think that it would be okay for an irreligious person to use one.

      • radix
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        1 year ago

        No, I do not. Sorry I didn’t say that. Probably an important detail… I’ll edit it in.

    • alex [they, il]@jlai.lu
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      1 year ago

      It’s not a bad idea, it’s just really useless, especially since you don’t even live here. The dresses are pretty though, I used to have one that I wore at home pretty often, as a non-Muslim person in France. It’s definitely not a bad thing. It’s just a dress.