Oppression of Women (JEAN KIM)

One of the most famous, possibly a femminist live talk show, Tyra Banks Show took a unique approach to demonstrate the oppression of Muslim in the United States. Tyra had one ordinary American woman disguise herself as a Muslim woman with the traditional Islam costume and the hijab around her head and live a life as a Muslim woman for a day. While the woman and one actual Muslim woman were walking down the street and simply passing by other people, they noticed how most of the people had to stare at them at least once just because of their costume and the stereotype of a Muslim as a terrorist. They tried asking random people to take a picure of them and got rejected. Then they directly asked a person randomly what their first impression of them and the man refused to answer.

This particular episode of the show is provoking enough to create controversey among Muslim and non-Muslim women in the United States, as it only presents the extreme case of discrimination by a scenario that is intentionally set up to get the non-Muslim audience upset about the issue. Though it may be an efficient way to inform the people about the issue through the voice of a celebrity, it may be the show's limitation at the same time, since the label "celebrity" may over exaggerate any kind of issue and may prevent the audience from thinking rationally on different perspectives.

Moreover, as the show host, Tyra Banks is a non-Muslim, it is inevitable that it deliberately leaves out the fact that the Muslim women can "choose" to wear hijab and that they are actually proud to wear it in respect for their religion.