02-06-2025, 09:17 AM
Go home? As in other countries? Other countries, other rules, other choices. Hard ones for sure, but choices still. Like America. Appeasing Trump is a choice, as is resisting and opposing. As is expressing an opinion, or staying silent. As is choosing our words when we speak about other people.
What we wear is an expression of many things, we make a statement with our clothes. Some days I wear black, right down to my lace up heavy soled combat style boots. Other days fuchsia and screaming orange with a purple buttonhole, just for the sheer glee of it. Some days I fly the tino flag, or put the embroidered version on my back, yes, it's signalling. But why call it 'virtue signalling'? There's something wrong with virtue? Something wrong with social justice? Something wrong with having a cause to support? Something wrong with telling the world how we feel on a given day?
I think your Muslim women enjoy the freedom of choice, here, and there. Because it is still choice, please themselves, or choose to please someone else...
What we wear is an expression of many things, we make a statement with our clothes. Some days I wear black, right down to my lace up heavy soled combat style boots. Other days fuchsia and screaming orange with a purple buttonhole, just for the sheer glee of it. Some days I fly the tino flag, or put the embroidered version on my back, yes, it's signalling. But why call it 'virtue signalling'? There's something wrong with virtue? Something wrong with social justice? Something wrong with having a cause to support? Something wrong with telling the world how we feel on a given day?
I think your Muslim women enjoy the freedom of choice, here, and there. Because it is still choice, please themselves, or choose to please someone else...