'Non balneabile': What are the face covering bans across Europe?
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A group of Muslim women wearing modest beach wear were harassed by a group of women in northern Italy claiming that they can’t go in the water with their clothing.
    • HenriVolney
      87·
      1 year ago

      No religion is demanding that women specifically wear scarfs or beanies. Denying that this mandate (burkinis and other items) is a religious one, wose ultimate purpose is to separate women from men is at least a denial, at most a support for totalitarian propaganda

        • HenriVolney
          42·
          1 year ago

          A hidjab serves the same purpose as the burkini, to artificially differentiate women from men and create a segregated society where women have fewer rights. Individual choice or not, the end result is the same.

        • HenriVolney
          12·
          1 year ago

          I’ve seen freedom of choice when a social group pushes their norm on everyone. Either you carve or you leave. This is a very powerful tool to impose norms on people, women particularly. What freedom of choice do you have when you are a 15 yo girl with parents, brothers, cousins, etc who tell you that you have to wear “modest” clothing (fuck that phrase by the way, are men modest with their shorts and t-shirts?)? Either you carve or you break with your social group.

    • livus@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s not neoprene, it’s made of the same stuff swimsuits are made of. It just keeps the sun off more parts of you.

        • livus@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh okay sorry. I am thinking about getting a burkini or rash shirt/shorts now that the hole in the ozone is getting worse again, so I’m kind of focused on its practical properties.