AIBU to question John Lewis advert and its message about women?

[Sheldonsheher]

John Lewis pushing this advert on my social media. Do they support oppression of women or is this a symbol of women’s right to choose .

Because feminism is never about controlling what other women wear.

Glad you asked. No, again it is very different.

Jewish women cover their hair once they are married due to culture, and this is is up to interpretation of Midrash (a part of oral Torah) rather than a direct commandment from the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). The idea is that covering your hair is a sign of marriage, and removing the sign of marriage would be the equivalent to refusing to wear your wedding ring in the western world.

That being said, it isn’t about modesty so much as it is about demonstrating that you are married in a public way that all can see and that no one can question.

In Islam, women cover their hair around the age of puberty (or sooner for some) as a form of modesty.

Two stylish women in Mogadishu, Somalia 1968. Compare and contrast to what Somalian women are wearing now. It's like night and day.

The move from the relatively secular, cosmopolitan urban styles visible in the 1960s /1970s to more shapeless, conservative public dress was mostly a gradual process, but the turmoil of the1990s and the growth of religious movements made the change appear much more rapid in retrospect.

We must never take anything for granted and we need to have an honest and a frank conversation about the society we want for our daughter's and granddaughters.

Look at that dim-wit AOC at an Eid event in NY the other week. She wore a hijab. The hijab in that setting was not religious, it was ideological. That was not a Muslim woman choosing to cover her head, rather it was a populist-Marxist teaming up with Islamists. I think we've seen this film before. A worrying sign of the times, and I don't like it one bit.

The picture in question.

Yes also the same in Egypt and many Muslim counties.

From mini skirts to traditional costumes