A man’s awrah is roughly a pair of Bermuda shorts, while a woman’s awrah is her entire body, and that’s the way uh huh uh huh Allah likes it???
And we don’t even get a choice or say in criticizing, changing or challenging this 1400 year old mansplaining of our existence?
I felt sick to my stomach learning about the Islamic concept of awrah, and how incredibly sad it was that #Hislam, its doctrine and leaders have been teaching Muslims to view the whole entire female body, from head to toe, as nakedness, as something we should be ashamed of and hide to not tempt men.
Like as if we’re not even humans, but objects made from and for men, meant to serve, obey, please, and care more about god and men than ourselves?
What do you even mean I have to cover myself because any part of my body, even my voice, makes men horny, gives them bners, makes them jrk off, makes them assault me, makes them grape me, so it’s my fault I exist as a woman?
What do you mean my body is a source of sin, shame and sexual chaos so I have to hide behind clothing?
What do you mean girls and women should feel guilty for existing in their bodies?
What do you mean I’m responsible for male self-control and my body is a danger to men’s purity?
Islam has basically given Muslims, obviously men, the power to shame, harm and hide 50% of the population with 100% misogyny, sexism and purity culture. But it’s not protection or for safety reasons. It’s objectification and sexualization of girls’ and women’s bodies sold as 7th century man-made morality.
What was once created as a way for men to identify Muslim, non-Muslim and enslaved women by the men creating Islam on the fly, has now become suffocating, unequal gender-biased norms within Islam. Women continue to be taught to become ummah incubators, subjugated with Islamic purity, shaming and modesty rules, and then we’re blamed for being women, while making men feel special and entitled about being born with a gun in their pants.
Wtf kind of misogynist logic is that? This is certainly not my choice.