A cool guide to the names of the different types of head coverings Muslim women wear

No woman, anywhere in the world, should ever be required to wear any of these. Humans should be respected to make their own personal choices.
- Sure, but many women choose to wear these and that’s fine if that’s what they want to do.
  
  It's also worn out of fear. People falsly believe it protects you from sexual assault.
  
  Choose to because otherwise they get kicked from the family?
  
  Choose and Required are opposites.
  
  What's the market look like for these? Homemade to top tier brands?
- Nobody should be allowed to say Allah without protest. If somebody says Allah in casual conversation, they should be met with scoffs, eye-rolls, and dirty looks. Muslims should say ilah instead.
  
  Allah.
  
  While I typically try to avoid divisive comments in these light-hearted communities, this is a fairly informative one, especially in the context of etymology.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilah
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah#Etymology
  We should also not be condoning scoffing at someone based on their understanding. Perhaps these could be opportunities to educate people that are unfamiliar with the differences.
  
  Allah damnit
  
  Mā schā' Allāh

- Typical. I get my comment deleted for opposing misogynist ideologies. Stay reddit, mods.

This is probably just cause I’m on NCD too much but does the last one kinda look like a stealth fighter?
- I am torn between stealth fighter and payload tbh.
- It looks cozy
  
  Yup, and with barely any radar cross section either

Clothing fit for making a clear statement they are not on the same level as men. Is this compatible with modern society, inherent human needs and equality?
- Easy answer, yes if they are doing it of their own free will with informed consent. People can wear whatever they want.
  Hard question, does heavy cultural pressure and implied threats of violence impact your ability to ever truly give informed consent?
  
  Exactly. Although it does get a little dicey when you factor in cultural conditioning. Some women are devout by choice—but if they grew up in the religion it’s impossible to determine if that devoutness is a truly held belief or if they’ve been essentially brainwashed. I don’t mean to say there’s some insidious plot of brainwashing, but there’s really no other way to describe deep, long term conditioning from a dominant in-group.

Crazy how many completely different names there are for different kinds of clothing that's sooooo close to each other.
- How many different kinds of hats with entirely different names do you own? I have a sun hat, a toque, a helmet, a rain cap, one of those ones with flaps that I don't know the name of but probably has one, and I'm sure half of you own a fedora and a trilby.
  
  I see your point and I think the hats are a better example than the trousers comment below. Especially when it comes to traditional clothing, there's a ton of different, very specialized hats with special names and for a 3rd person might be all just 'hats'. Thanks for the analogy. :)
- Islamic world is what - 40 countries? 50? Im not suprised at all. How many different words can be used to describe pants just in Europe alone?
  Pants Knickers Slacks Trousers Bloomers Briefs Britches Pantaloons
  And thats just English synonyms, how many languages are in Europe? There are easily 100 words in Europe for the cloth tubes you stick your legs in.
  
  Pants, Knickers, Slacks, Trousers, Bloomers, Briefs, Britches, Pantaloons
  Aren't these just synonyms for the more or less same thing and not different concepts that just (almost) look alike? The pure existence of this guide implies that the nuances between these kinds of clothing are so important that you should be able to differentiate them. And Hijab and Shayla seem to me almost identical. The cloth is placed slightly different but that might have happened also by the wind or so.

Can men wear these? I want to scare my kids and these would be perfect
- I like the one resembling a Christmas tree.
- No, of course not. that would defy physics as some know it. These are clearly womens clothing and they can only possibly be fit by someone feline of birth. They also don’t feature a penis pocket so not sure where you would fold that all up.
  
  TIL AFAB = Assigned Feline At Birth, good to know.
- They do; to prevent their identification, smuggle stuff like weapons and conceal their real gender among other stuff.

4,5,3

is there one word I can learn that describes all of these because honestly that's too much to remember
- Oppressive.
  
  Go work on your relationship with your father. I bet you both need it.
- It's almost definitely cultural, but putting all the head coverings under the generic umbrella of Hijab is what I've seen.

- How the repression cloth hangs on the shoulders is slightly different, probably because of how it wraps around her scandalous hair.
- Color?
- Just guessing but 3 has her shoulders covered and 4 looks like a looser headscarf than 5.

Never heard of a Chador, looks cozy.
This drawing kind of makes a Burka look crazy, like she's blindfolded.
- Its a mesh over the eyes iirc like very shear fabric.
- Honestly, my first thought when seeing the chador was this character from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess…

Honestly outside of protection from the sun they all look extremely uncomfortable/constraining. Especially the burka.
- This clothing's function is not to protect against the sun but to protect women against men without socialization, rape, comparison and property protection (that means exactly what is it, the women are property of their men and mostly law- and powerless). It is a social instrument of oppression and property and modern social slavery.

As a man, it is not my place to say anything about this conversation, but I want to give a story form my life. My mother didn't wear it until my father's death. So I am sure that it was her choice. She was a praying Muslim and devoted before and after and We live in this so-called authoritarian state too.
- Was it truly her choice or was it something society and/or religion and/or culture dictated her to do to fit into a role intented for her? What would be her reason to do this out of free will?
  
  As far as I know, she wanted to wear it before his death, but he didn't let her. So when he did, she chose to wear it on her own.
  You need to understand that it is normal not to wear it in our society. infects some people use it to not have to Do their hair when they don't feel like it.
  In fact, it is getting less and less used as people moderniz. And people in the West get more religious effect from people in Muslim communities I know the fuckers who would go to the club and drink in here, but who will start praying as soon as they get out to western country. So you maybe getting the wrong idea about it.

so cool