© Noor TagouriMirth pose before bridge, in Hijab.
Now we all know how oppressive it is to have to wear a head scarf, so this is obviously an important social issue, and in modern style Tagouri is fighting the power and taking back her freedom - to commercially objectify herself. At least she plans not to disrobe, this shoot will be purely 'additive'. This may or may not be due to Playboy's new social-justice aware direction that excludes full nudity from future issues of the magazine. Partial nudity is still artsy enough though.
Apparently Hijabs are the new thing, with Dolce & Gabbana coming out with a new haute couture line of apparel targeted at muslims.
As expected, there was the required link to some anonymous person criticizing Tagouri for her public behavior. This person even has 13 followers on Twitter.
Ms. Tagouri has a youtube account. Her added value seems to be that she in fact wears a hijab, in lots of pictures. She writes news reports in hijabs. Goes to dinner in hijabs. It's like she's a living advertisement for head scarves.
Why should you care? Maybe it would behoove us to pause and reflect on the state of society, when it appears as if people put on and take off identities like clothing, in fact, they reduce them to clothing. Putting on a hijab makes you Muslim as much as putting on lederhosen makes you Swiss. Is posing for Playboy in a hijab the act of a Renegade? Wasn't this trail blazed by riskier women?
On the one hand we have a meaningless PR stunt, sexed up (pardon the pun) into a bizarro statement of female empowerment (huh - isn't that a reversal), and on the other hand we have the crass social-justice commercialization of identities. Cultural Appropriation is apparently A-OK if you plan on doing it in a nudie magazine: because liberation?
We often don't pay attention to the subtle shifts in society, the new tracks and grooves being made by "opinion leaders" put up before the young and idealistic. Sometimes a bad example is worse than a dirty bomb. We're creating the ruts of tomorrow today, and if we aren't careful young women are going to get the message that posing in a nudie magazine in a head scarf is an actual achievement. That it makes the world a better place.
Actually, we think it makes it worse.
Why do people care about 'hijab' or not? And what does Playboy and hijab have or not have to do with one another? Seriously, just let every person do whatever they want (while respecting and not hurting others). Do I care if a girl poses nude in Playboy with a cross necklace around her neck?
Clothing can or can not mean something. No need to make a mess out of everything, there is already enough of a mess so.