Thread by @TheAtulMishra

Hijab Row: a biological/anthropological take - A thread.

Evolution has been most unkind to women. It’s evolution that gave males the advantage that they currently enjoy. The physical size, muscle strength and same energy levels on all days of the month made man what he became.

Pregnancy immobilised a woman for at least 6 months while the (pre-marriage era) male was free to impregnate as many women as he wanted. This led to men gaining more and more superiority at the expense of women.

Most anthropologists readily state that many ancient cultures have a matrilineal (not matriarchal) past. But barring a very few cultures today, almost every culture in patrilineal.

In the Hunter-gatherer days of the humankind, the man hunted and the woman gathered. Hunting wasn’t a daily routine but gathering was. They had the most important task of producing children and providing for them.

Additionally women were also used as beasts of burden. A woman was also a property to be bartered for food, blankets, other animals etc.. When Bushmen of Africa saw European men and women for the first time, they concluded that a white man’s oxen looks like that (white woman).

Genes don’t have religions or culture. They don’t have value or belief systems. They simply copy and paste information for the next version. The experiences from the past are written in the gene code.

The code of subjugation passed on from one generation to another. It’s still easier to brainwash a woman than a man. It’s easier still to make her toe a line that may even be self destructive.

Hijabs fall into the same category. While I’m no expert, Hijabs don’t exactly look comfortable. I wear masks because I’m forced to, not because I like to and it’s certainly not liberation.

It’s the result of thousands of years of subjugation that genes carry till date coupled with constant religious brainwashing. In my absolutely irreligious and humble opinion, Hijab has nothing to do with liberation.

It simply is, men setting rules for women and women blindly following it because she has been made to believe that it’s for her own good and her genetic history gives in immediately.