Dilbert wrote:
Tragic thing here is that the men in her old country had forced her, and in fact all women, to wear the headscarfs and the robes and whatnot. (Allah-forbid a woman would be seen in public! What's next???! They will start getting jobs and driving cars? Goodness me, we can't have that!! !) And this girl had escaped that world, came here, and is still stuck in sort of a brainwashed mode of thinking where she's convinced herself that the headscarf is some sort of a heritage to be defended, instead of a bondage it truly is.
This is incredibly ignorant. Could it not be that she wears the headscarf because she wants to? In implying that the ONLY way she would prefer to wear one is cultural brainwashing rather than an intelligent choice, you are guilty of the same sexism you accuse her culture of.
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For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay.