@Background Pony #4DC1  
Don’t call people “an infection”.

@SeraphimDawn  
@Maya
 
True, and generally I agree, but I really wanted to see how someone would respond to this, because the cognitive dissonence that must exist there confuses me. How can someone decry Western culture for being sexist, then turn around and extol middle-eastern culture that does things like that?
 
I don’t honestly really have a problem with hijabs or Islam in principle, it’s more the application of them and violence being used to enforce them - ie, the culture that’s come up around them.
 
But hey, I’m Mormon, and Utah Mormon culture often bothers me, so I even say the same thing about my own religion… Except, it’s kind of an annoyance vs. executing 13-year old girls, so, one is a bit greater in magnitude than the other.

@The Smiling Pony  
We just don’t know when to stop, even if it’s obviously bad for us.

@Cirrus Light  
dude, one thing is celebrating multiculturalism, and other thing is defending what´s obiously wrong, just because it a “cultural-religious thing.”

Why are you people still posting on this.

@Cirrus Light  
To be fair, Alvre was completely entitled to draw whatever she liked. If you don’t like something, then don’t like it and move on.

@SeraphimDawn  
Because we should celebrate different cultures with multiculturalism!… But at the same time, taking things from other cultures is “cultural appropriation”? Yeah, I don’t understand tumblr-ites, SJW’s, progressives, liberals, whatever you want to call them. Their logic… Isn’t.

@eden89  
Long story…  
Something about “cultural appropriation” and stuff?

@eden89  
Because an Arabian girl can’t take a hijab off in 100*F heat to go to the sea with her friends and chat without being beaten for it because Islam, and some people think it’s terrible to think that’s not okay.

@eden89  
Personally the artist made me uncomfortable because they said a lot of racist sounding stuff about white people & I’m half white.  
That only accounts for some of the drama though, I didn’t actually downvote this.

@SeraphimDawn
 
So why the drama and all the downvote?

@eden89  
I’m sure they can.

So… can’t an arabian girl go to the sea with her friends and chat?

@CaptainGrumpy  
There was no racism in the comments, the artist just had a tantrum and accused any detractors of it.

I saw the tag “racism in the comments” and I had to take a look
 

 
Guys what the fuck

@Background Pony #6F5C  
There is no problem trying to imitate other cultures different from your mother culture. Just as long as you do it right. However, personally, I don’t have any problems with people stereotyping my culture for fun. Stereotypes happen. It become offensive if one tries to use it as a “accurate” reference.

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@A-T-S  
He’s not beating women for failure to wear a hijab in 100F+ heat. He’s just expressing that in his view supporting a culture that beats women for wearing a hijab in 100F+ is wrong. That’s how his “hatecrimes” are different.

@Background Pony #2843  
Yeah that’s complete bull. Coverings became part of Islamic tradition because they helped protect from the sun (kind of like how circumcision became part of Jewish tradition because it helped prevent infections), and how are you being any different from the boogeymen you’re whining about? You’re the one attacking people for wearing clothing that you deem unacceptable in your society. You know the majority of hatecrimes committed in the UK last year were against women wearing Islamic-looking clothes, so think about who here is being forced to dress differently for fear of being attacked, and next time double check to make sure your mouth is outside of your rectum.

@Background Pony #2843  
Still a well drawn piece though.

@Background Pony #2843  
pretty much

This artist should not be commenting on a foreign culture he does not understand. Covering up like this is not used to protect yourself from the desert sun, it is religious in nature. He clearly does not understand the history, the religion, or the laws in some countries explicitly requiring you to cover yourself under threat of a severe beating or imprisonment.
 
A woman under a secular government would not look like this, their head coverings are often glorified fashion statements. They would be wearing otherwise unremarkable modern clothing or more colorful, (stereotypical, historical,) traditional dress. If a woman dresses specifically like this, she is either desperately poor, required to by her family or the police, or fears being raped or attacked with acid in public.
 
I don’t understand how someone (this artist) can have such firm opinions about a subject they seem to know so little about. They have either willfully ignored thousands of years of history or they are intentionally trolling the site mods knowing that they will step in. You can clearly see they are not a Muslim and they are intentionally posting inflammatory comments to rile up commenters. Why else would someone be so aggressive and publicly post an image like >>938387? They know how you’re going to react, there is no possible way they could bastardize this culture so so severely and accuse others of racism/ignorance/“whitewashing.”
 
They are just expecting you to ban anyone who takes the bait.

Sure is Reddit in here.

@OneOverTwo  
Sounds like a place that’s doing a lot better to overcome racism than Alabama is :q I suppose that shouldn’t be too surprising, though, Alabama doesn’t have the best track record for that, heh.