If you were a Muslim woman, would you wear a hijab?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Just imagine you live where you do now and are from a really integrated and assimilated Muslim family and a woman.

I wouldn't obviously. But of course I would've converted to Christianity anyway...

[Wells]

What kind of a question is that? If you were a Jewish man, would you eat ham? How should I know? I'm not a Jewish man or a Muslim woman. 

[Santander]

What kind of a question is that? If you were a Jewish man, would you eat ham? How should I know? I'm not a Jewish man or a Muslim woman. 

[Хahar 🤔]

I'm not a Muslim woman so I can't possibly answer this question. I do, however, love your ability to construct hypotheticals imagining yourself in different situations where somehow nothing about you changes at all.

[SATW]

lol brtd

[Boston Bread]

If I maintained my current values (which isn't that unreasonable since I'm already from an integrated non-Western immigrant family), then I probably wouldn't believe in whatever religion I was brought up in, so probably not.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What kind of a question is that? If you were a Jewish man, would you eat ham? How should I know? I'm not a Jewish man or a Muslim woman. 

Well in my case I can answer yes, since one of my core principles is not caring about my "culture" or holding any reverence for my heritage and background.

[Frodo]

If the object were to avoid sexual harassment or sexual assault, then it is pointless to wear one.  

http://muslimgirl.com/20378/hijab-sexual-harassment-nothing-dress-codes/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2015/sep/15/iran-hijab-backfired-sexual-harassment

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Also I'll point out that I've seen pictures and videos from shows of my music in Turkey, and no women are wearing hijabs there. So it's safe to assume people with my musical taste don't ever wear it.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

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[Mr. Smith]

Definitely. Tradition matters.

[Antonio the Sixth]

What kind of a question is that? If you were a Jewish man, would you eat ham? How should I know? I'm not a Jewish man or a Muslim woman. 

Yeah, this is ridiculous even by BRTD standards.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

"if you weren't brtd, would you make ever effort to become brtd?"

BRtD: yes

[Alcon]

"if you weren't brtd, would you make ever effort to become brtd?"

BRtD: yes

Don't be silly, if BRTD was born deaf-mute in 18th-century Dhaka he'd obviously find his way to a Minneapolis studio apartment and a collection of Jawbreaker band shirts, and it would definitely be through the power of Christ

[Kingpoleon]

What kind of a question is that? If you were a Jewish man, would you eat ham? How should I know? I'm not a Jewish man or a Muslim woman. 

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

If I were a diffrent person, I'd have diffrent outlook and experiences. Therefore this question is stupif.

[Higgs]

*heebeejabee

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I bet most gay posters would say they'd still be gay regardless of what type of family they were born into.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Yep, probably as a political statement much like what Seyla Benhabib discusses in her writing on laïcité/French secularism.

[Alcon]

I bet most gay posters would say they'd still be gay regardless of what type of family they were born into.

and if they had completely different genes and environments, that answer would probably be wrong because duh

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I honestly can't see how you can compare being gay with a decision whether to wear a hijab or not.

[White Trash]

I bet most gay posters would say they'd still be gay regardless of what type of family they were born into.

What

[DavidB.]

Safe to say I would, actually.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I'm not a Muslim woman so I can't possibly answer this question. I do, however, love your ability to construct hypotheticals imagining yourself in different situations where somehow nothing about you changes at all.

Good Post Gallery material here.

[Sir Mohamed]

No. I’m a (liberal) muslim myself, but wouldn’t wear one if I were a woman. My wife, who is unlike me third-generation immigrant with Egyptian ancestors, does not wear one (like all her muslim relatives in America). This was never really question for us, because we both don’t like it. But I accept those who wear it voluntarily.