Ban the Burkini

[abaris]

Although I don't support any sort of government enforced dress code, I do wonder how many women really would be dressing in a burkini on a hot day on a beach without pressure from husband/family/community. 9/10 the poor woman's husband is just in swim trunks enjoying a hot day like a normal person. The burkini is another symbol of extreme Islamic sexism.

It may be. But enforcing them to undress in public as that despicable video shows, isn't helping the cause. And that's the whole point. It's adding insult to injury, so to speak. Degrading and shaming them, if they are of that culture.

And let's never forget that not even a century ago our own women wore similar garb at the beach. You can't enforce liberation, if that even is the goal, which I put in doubt, since, as I said, it's only enforced on muslim women. Also, the burkini inventor announced record sales after (the now invalid) regulation. That kind of backclash is to be expected by enforcing something as stupid as a dress code.

If anything the regulation had the opposite effect. Turning the burkini into a sign of liberation.