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Canada is anti-feminist: How Canada drowns Quebec in its religious toleration of sexism.

If there is one thing I have grown tired of hearing is how people think it is ok to lecture women on what they can and cannot wear. We render women into mere objects, and inferiorize them as if they had certain norms to conform to. Lecturing women on what they can and cannot wear shows exactly what we think we have evolved from: a system of stringent patriarchy. Yet when we still have people debating senselessly on what a woman can and cannot wear, it just justifies the objectification of women and their inferior status as individuals. This post is going to focus specifically on lecturing islamic women who choose to cover up, whether from head to toe, in religious garb.

There is however a fundamental difference between lecturing women on what they can and cannot wear, and on battling something that is so deeply rooted in sexism it is frightening. It is a fine line that we need to divide, and not instantly become cut-throat when individuals begin to lecture these women on the “inappropriateness” of their chosen outfit. Ultimately, the reasoning on being cut-throat with individuals who lecture a woman on her religious garb is that they are lecturing her on what her choice of outfit should be. Undoubtedly in many cases, yes it is her who has chosen to don religious wear and she is entitled to that choice. However, is it really her choice to partake in a religion that is so unrelentlessly sexist and biased against her, or is it ignorance to the ingrained sexism of Islam? Is it not ignorance to the patriarchal interpretations of the Quran that have rendered these women into mere objects and beings that need to protect themselves from the excesses of men? Is it not a religion that excuses the excesses of men in which if you don’t properly guard yourself from these “savage and uncontrollable beasts” you will be sexually assaulted?

I believe the answer is flat out there. If you deem it sexist to lecture a woman on what she can and cannot wear, don’t you believe it is sexist that a book called the Quran is lecturing woman on what they can and cannot wear? Donning religious garb rooted in unacceptable sexism is unquestionably ignorance, and a comfort of following ignorance. So when we berate these women and demand them to “free” themselves, are we being ignorant, xenophobic, racist sexists or are we actually combatting a form of unacceptable sexism? In Quebec society, at least, from our own historical sexism that grappled the province since its inception up to the overthrow of religion and its extreme sexism, is a newfound intuition. It is unacceptable to a Quebecer, who post-quiet revolution indisputably believes in the fundamental equality between men and women, to accept such stark sexism roam freely and ignorantly.

Canada particularly enjoys berating Quebec for this stance, as they often have a perverse notion of what sexism is, and the boundaries we give ourselves to combat it. Canada tends to combat sexism amongst white Canadians, but when it comes to sexism in other ethnocultural groups, it excuses their sexism as their “way of being”. Canada views non-white ethnocultural groups as others, and individuals to which you have no right to judge and put in line because this would be against the principle of “strength in diversity”. Yet this toleration, and cut-throat attitude towards challenging sexism in ethnocultural communities, particularly islamic ones, ultimately, is fundamentally and morally wrong. Canada ultimately is labeling them as inferior and unworthy of being free’d from sexism, as their “way of being” is paramount to combatting sexism. Canada is so enshrined in their belief of seeing them as other, untouchable, that it defends them and ultimately defends sexism at its very core. Canada plays a double-edged sword, defending something they believe is outright unacceptable amongst the white, non-religious ethnocultural groups, but do not dare combat sexism within non-white, religious ethnocultural groups. So the question becomes, is Canada the feminist it touts itself or is selectively sexist, and trying in vain to impose selective sexism on Quebec? I truly believe that if you do not go up in arms and battle sexist ignorance you are ultimately a sexist. Canada is a cowardly selective sexist.

It is so shocking to see how sexist Canada is too. Especially when it refuses to accept the fact that religion, specifically abrahamic religions, tend to render people into things. These religions render people into objects that have no purpose other than to serve not only god, but the male sex. Women in these religions are rendered into meaningless, identity-less things that are enslaved to the patriarchy of a man.

In particular of Islam, though there is a very small movement of women who are interpreting the Quran in the benefit of improving the status of women in Islamic societies, it still remains that phrases in the religious texts themselves equate women to worthlessness. For example in islam, a male deserves as much as two females in inheritance. Men are also excused to pretty much do whatever they want to their wives because “your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will”. Men are also permitted to enslave women and keep them as sexual objects (those they’ve captured through raids*). They can take up multiple wives, they are to expect 72 houri (particularly beautiful, obedient women) in heaven to pleasure themselves with, and many other sexist horrors. Ultimately, a woman in Islam is an object that must survive around the excesses of men. It cannot be argued that women are worth the same as men in Islam. They are not. Judaism and Christianity are also not exempt as they are equally as sexist. Ultimately, covering up, though it may be your religious right and conscious choice, is ignorance and sexism at its finest. It is the unquestioned belief that men are superior, and that due to their superiority you must guard yourself from them as they are the authority and are allowed to do whatever they want to you. Because you are so insignificant, you must take the extra precaution of guarding yourself. You are but a thing, without identity, and a subject to men. When your religion dictates what you should wear, it is already sexism.

The point is: Quebec does these women a favour by lecturing them on their religious dress. Though a lot of it is pure xenophobia and racism, it also stems from an unquestioned belief that women deserve equal status to men. Though xenophobic, it is an xenophobia of seeing women enslaved and enshrined to barbaric sexism that has rendered them into things: Things that Quebecois women once were for the longest time due to their enslavement by the Catholic Church. It is an xenophobia of the possibility, however delusional, that women will be rendered into objects again and not free, equal beings. Religious wear, specifically female religious wear, is an attack on the fundamental notions of basic feminism and stirs relentless fear in secular Quebec which is relatively and indisputably feminist.

Don’t get me wrong - you should be allowed to wear whatever you want. If you want to cover up from head to toe, even with a full face veil, go right ahead. To berate you for your outfit is the epitome of sexism, objectification, and belongs in decades past. Though when your outfit is rooted in religious and cultural sexism, then it is unacceptable. Quebecers largely believe in the full equality between men and women, so unlike Canada they are incapable of being selectively sexist by ignoring certain sexism like Canada effortlessly does. Quebec is not a sexist coward and due to that, you cannot convince Quebec to respect religion for what it is: flat out sexist. Quebec should continue to never accept religious sexism no matter how “miserable” and “alienated” they make a practicing individual feel. Quebec needs to continue being relentlessly feminist, and hellbent on it too, because if they don’t, then it will become Canada: anti-feminist, a cowardly sexist afraid of the repercussions of battling sexism in a delusional and overly sensitive society.

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