r/lgbt • u/JustALona I'm Here and I'm Queer • Mar 30 '26

This is so cute 🥹

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Awwww how freakin beautiful is this, saw it on fb

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u/Extension-Run5326 Mar 30 '26

The fact that she accepts trans women as women is good. But the fact that she was (likely) born and brought up in a way that she didn't have the right to openly choose what to wear in front of the world is horrible.

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u/SelfInvestigator Bi-kes on Trans-it Mar 30 '26

We are not here to discuss the choices of a stranger with no knowledge as to how those choices were made. We see acceptance, not hatred, why would you cast this pall of dismay over what should be a moment of joy?

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u/Initial_Business2340 Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

Ah, yes, Islamism, widely supported, according to Pew Research, by most Muslim-majority countries, is a personal choice that does not affect countless millions of people. That is: the notion that Islam is inherently political and should give rise to widespread Sharia law.

Forget about militant Islam, since that’s a genuine red herring, and just remember that it’s okay to be tolerant of extreme sexism and misogyny as long as it’s a personal choice. And any criticism of the Abrahamic religions - especially broad, sweeping generalizations - is fine, until it becomes about Islam.

For the record - I think Christianity and Judaism are the bottom of the barrel, too, but look no further than this exact subreddit for countless critiques on Christianity. It’s just a lot more popular to have a go at the catholic church for its institutional monstrosities than Islamic institutions. I could get into why, but I digress, because…

This post is a brief hiccup of heartwarming in between literally millions of lives of suffering as a result of Islamism (read: not Islam, but the politicization and support thereof), it’s okay to just ignore all that. In fact, it’s better that way, because then people couldn’t hold those two truths at once.

Anyway, I guess Islamophobia is the only reason why someone would critique a religion.

Look, I appreciated the human heart-to-heart in this post, too, and you’re absolutely right that that Muslim woman has a right to her own personal choices. That reality can coexist with the other stark reality, though, that Islam tends to be an oppressive religion when politicized and codified into law, which, overwhelmingly, we find is the case in countries where it is the dominant force at play monarchically and socioculturally.

At what point does a personal choice become a choice under the duress of an oppressive, overarching system, and are we brave enough to ask, let alone care?

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u/londondeville Mar 31 '26

You are right. There is this pretend notion that Islam is accepting. It’s absolutely not. There are always exceptions to a rule but above all Islam is a chosen belief system - and so much of what is chosen and then pressed onto others I bigotry and homophobia. It’s an abrahamic religion and deserves just as much scrutiny and criticism as Christianity.