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[โ€“] radix@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.)

[โ€“] denissimo@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Llewellyn@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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

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.

[โ€“] alex@jlai.lu 2 points 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.