Hijab is my choice - Why it isn't a choice, YET

To those people saying hijab is a choice and women empowerment - hijab is an imposition. Jeans is fashion. Non hijabi women are shamed for not wearing hijab for godly, religious and sexually objectifying reasons, so other women saying wearing hijab is a choice is a paradox.

There's a Malay Muslim singer in Malaysia and her name is Ning Baizura. She doesn't wear hijab all the time and she's criticised for that. It's her choice when she wants to wear hijab and when she doesn't want to but she's shamed when she doesn't wear hijab so how can you call hijab a choice? Siti Kasim, an activist and lawyer here is chastised for sporting dyed hair and outlandish hairstyles and for not wearing hijab. These women are not let make a choice but the way they are pushed to wear the hijab is not as brutal as Saudi and Pakistan for example. Y'all readily call Qandeel Baloch a tramp and slut for not wearing hijab and elevate women who wear the hijab as the perfect woman and you call hijab a choice?

Jeans is not imposed on any woman - no one shames another woman for not wearing jeans. It's rather the other way around. In Saudi, Afghanistan all, can women choose not to wear burqa/abaya? They'll be killed so how can you say other women, including the sportswomen wearing hijab is empowerment and choice when it's clear cut imposition for other women who choose not to?

No one chooses to pander to impositions. These women say wearing hijab is their choice and at the same time, women who don't wear hijab are slut shamed. This is misogynistic religions hijacking feminism. Clever indeed and not immediately obvious. Need to have critical thinking to figure this out.

The day when women are not shamed for wearing/not wearing certain clothes for any reason and people start taking responsibilities for their own actions is the day when hijab/dupatta/sari/burqa/abaya truly becomes a choice. Traditional clothes like kimono and cheongsam has evolved from imposition to choice - Japanese and Chinese women are not shamed for choosing not to wear both. Hijab is yet to attain that status so for now, it remains an imposition and a symbol of oppression no matter how you put it.