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I have a neighbor who wears a hijab and while I was growing up I had a very ethnocentric mindset. When I saw people wearing hijab I thought they were weird and different from me. Then as I got older I was told that women had to wear hijabs as a form of oppression. It was not a choice made based on a woman's religion but a way for men to keep them under their control. This made me disgusted with the idea of hijabs. It started to represent misogyny to me so I began to hate the idea of them. Today I know they are used for religious practices, but it is still unclear to me what their true purpose is. Woman wear hijabs as their own form of empowerment.Women have been taking backlash for the clothing choices they have made from the beginning of

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