My Body Is My Own Business Summary

The article “My Body Is My Own Business” by Naheed Mustafa is a very thought provoking article. I think that Ms. Mustafa has taken a stand towards traditional dress claiming that it is because it allows her personal freedom. I would suggest that perhaps the article is really intended to initiate and stimulate discussion, amongst women primarily, rather than that of a definite belief system. I feel that she believes what she is saying and believes in her religion but has such strong opinions because it makes her feel special. I do not agree with her that male standards are “humiliating” There will always be “male standards” that women will want to look like and be like. While I think she has some points in her article I find that she contradicts …show more content…
A few years ago my sister and I really started to learn about our Latvian heritage and we loved every second of it. We got caught up in the dancing, the new friends, the parties, and the language. We would talk about it non-stop to our “non-Latvian” friends and people started to feel annoyed and ignored by us because they were not part of everything Latvian. I realized that I was grasping on to something just to make me feel different and felt the need to defend it to anyone who judged me. I do not act that way anymore because I came to see that it was not real what I was feeling and it was not as genuine as I had first believed. I am not saying Mustafa only started wearing the hijab to feel special but I think once she started wearing it she got caught up in it and her article is a way of showing off in a way. She knew people might not understand why she was wearing it so she wrote saying it was “liberating” but you also get the vibe that she felt superior to other women for wearing it. If you research Mustafa nowadays she does not seem to wear the hijab anymore which possibly confirms like she realized she did not believe in everything she was