A female blogger in Canada tried an experiment on Tinder. She wanted to see if she wore a hijab on the dating site if she would get fewer matches than a profile of herself without the traditional Muslim headscarf. Ana Kasparian, Hannah Cranston (ThinkTank), Keith Powell (Keith Broke His Leg) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
Were you surprised by the results of her experiment? Let us know in the comments below.
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“One woman’s social experiment is another’s highly offensive nightmare. This is evident in a video made by a Canadian comedienne and vlogger where she created two different Tinder profiles—one in which she’s wearing a hijab (a traditional Muslim head covering for women), and one where she’s not. She’s trying to make a point about the way in which Muslims are treated differently based on their looks, but is she completely misguided?
In the video posted on Jan. 12, the woman, who goes by the name Davison on social media, donned a hijab of her own making. It makes her look less like a traditional Muslim woman and more like the matchmaker from Fiddler on the Roof. Yet she seems convinced that despite her light complexion and amateur hijab, she can fool men on Tinder in the Montreal area that she is a practicing Muslim and from there can draw assumptions about how they would treat any woman like her.
In the video description, Davison writes “The test: how many matches does a woman dressed as a Muslim get compared to an implied Christian woman?”
Comments
Muslim women are not supposed to date.
I would really want TYT to understand that a significant portion of Muslim community do not wear the hijab, niqab or any form of headdresses. I am originally from a moderate Muslim family in Bangladesh and my mother, sister, grandmother, aunts and cousins did not wear headdresses. Even in the community I grew up in, very few of my neighbors wore any form of headdresses. The media in general paints the picture that Muslim women wear headdresses. But its really very far from the truth. I really wish TYT would refrain from painting the same picture!