Female dress code is extremely strict to the point you have to literally cover yourself from head to toe, loose clothing, not allowed to be beautiful except for your husband, like you are some kind of clown who does a special performance for a vip, like you are his personal property. To get to the point of the title, men on the other hand don’t have all these oppressive rules. I am tired of the sugar coating.

Navel till knee IS NOT MODESTY. They are not required to cover fully, let alone the head, but their body. This rule is half naked. This is one step before showing your genitals, how is that modesty? So men wearing shorts to cover the bare minimum, the standard through the whole world, their penis, is now modesty?

I am so tired of pretending like the men in the rest of the world are walking down the streets, go to to work and socializing with their penis out, but islam made the amazing change for men to wear clothes to cover at least their penis. Are we supposed to be thankful? Wearing clothes is the basic standard, but muslim men wearing clothes is modesty? But a woman is damned if she wears a belt in her modest clothing?

The only difference men and women have is genitalia and breast, which means both have arms, legs, face and hair. Why is my existence as a woman a sin so I have to cover my whole personality, but he can walk around barely naked? Why doesn’t he cover his whole body? Why is that not a requirement just like it’s for a woman?

Why should I see his masculine figure, what if a gay man sees him? Oh yeah they never thought about that.

Besides that, no one in the muslim community truly gives a damn even if men wear shorts shorter than their knees, but a woman is being damned for the slightest thing.

Last but not least: purity culture is rape culture.

  • dandelionEnglish
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    25 days ago

    I’m not Muslim, but I have read that the strict modesty rules applied to women are not universal to Islam and are not in the scripture, it is more cultural and specific to particular countries. It seems to me this is more a regional / cultural issue than even a doctrinal or religious one.

    EDIT: found this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_feminist_views_on_hijab

    The Qur’an states that men and women should be dressed modestly (33:59-60, 24:30-31; in translation by Ali, 1988, 1126–27). However, it does not use the words veil, hijab, burqa, chador, or abaya. Instead, it uses the words jilbab (cloak) and khumur (shawl). These garments do not cover the face, hands, or feet.

    Interpretations of how women should dress vary according to different cultures, geographic areas, and sects of Islam. Sufi groups such as Al-Ahbash, for example, do not make it mandatory for women to wear traditional Islamic clothing, even allowing jeans.[3]