An interesting interview with Jacinda Ardern

[Oh_hunnihunni]

No no, don't hold back - tell us what you really feel!


Couldn't agree more. I suspect that it may well be a good many years before her leading style is understood & she's truly appreciated. 
I think the impact of one single act - the hug she gave a woman after the terrorist attack here - will eventually also be understood as the instinctive, empathic act that it was.

whilst wearing a hijab, a sign of female oppression

Garbage. I know several Muslim women, most busy running their own businesses or in professional roles. What they wear is a personal choice, made for many reasons, oppression is not one of them. That attitude you display by such a statement is not only a conditioned political response, but it is ignorant, revealing a real lack of understanding of the roles within a modern Islamic family, or community.

Does wearing the keffiyeh make our politicians into Palestinians?

Is wearing a tie a sign of the patriarchy? Suits? Or a symbol of the role imposed on men they are unable to escape in western society? Socks with sandals? A handkerchief knotted at the corners and worn on the head as my very English step father in law loved to wear while mowing a kiwi lawn to within an inch of its poor summer life (much to my secret hilarity)? We are so bad at judging people by what they wear, we even legislate against entire groups on the basis of the cloth they choose to put on their bodies.

We should be ashamed of ourselves. Or at least more aware...