as men were. Western women’s “bra-burning” today asks for the same freedom.
Prurient Islamic and Christian gaze forced cover up.
Colonial narratives turned it into a story of “caste oppression.”
That comes from repressed “convent addled” mind.
Would love to record first hand accounts of grandmothers in Kerala where bare chest was *not* oppression, forced cover was.
Islamic & Christian sex-starved perversion forced covering.
Forced cover up comes from patriarchy. Islam regards women as property of men, asks men to keep their property covered.
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