Women’s religious dress is read as coercion while men’s is not

Evidence

And yet Evil needs Good, matter needs the idea, and night needs light. Man knows that to satisfy his desires, to perpetuate his existence, woman is indispensable to him; he has to integrate her in society: as long as she submits to the order established by males, she is cleansed of her original stain. This idea is forcefully expressed in the Laws of Manu: “Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river united with the ocean, and she is admitted after death to the same celestial paradise.” — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 170 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Masculine logic is refuted by mysteries; males’ pride becomes a sin, their agitation is not only absurd but culpable: Why remodel this world created by God himself? The passivity to which woman is doomed is sanctified. Reciting her rosary by the fire, she knows she is closer to heaven than her husband, who is out at political meetings. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1765 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A woman is not distinguished from her appearance, while a man’s clothing is incidental — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1921; Visible religious dress is read as proof of refusing to assimilate — Sahar F. Aziz, Sticks and Stones, the Words That Hurt:…, 161; Religious dress is read by co-workers as a sign of violence and self-oppression — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 858 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Religion sanctifies women’s enforced passivity as spiritual superiority over men #complicates (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1765
• Patriarchal religions purify woman of her stained nature through male-defined submission #complicates (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 170