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Cool, I love being lectured by a man on how I can't be religious
and for gender equality.
It's true that this comment isn't very cringey (other than this guy's profile pic, like why would you
choose that picture), but it actually illustrates what I think is a pretty big problem in the feminist movement. Some people have this idea that religious women (
especially Muslim women) are oppressed and need to be freed from their patriarchal brainwashing. They have no idea how badly they're alienating religious women. Again, we see this all the time with Muslim women, especially in the West. Most Muslim women in Western countries
choose to cover their hair; nobody is forcing them to do anything and (unlike in many Muslim-majority countries) they don't face any repercussions from society for choosing to keep their hair uncovered. It's just a personal decision. And so is choosing to practice Islam. So they tend to get (rightfully) pissed on when Westerners come up to them, crushed under the weight of their White Man's Burden, and start talking about how they need to "liberate" themselves by throwing off their headscarves and rejecting their religion.
I won't deny for a second that most religions are patriarchal in nature, but that doesn't mean that they all actively work to oppress women. And the best way to get religious women more interested in feminism is to work
with their religion instead of going "DON'T YOU REALIZE HOW OPPRESSED YOU ARE?!?! PLEASE, LET ME GUIDE YOU TO THE PATH OF TRUE ENLIGHTENMENT."