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[โ€“] livus@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, the hole in the ozone is getting worse again so as someone who lives near it, I'm looking at burkinis/rash shirts for the coming summer.

I don't want skin cancer.

[โ€“] DessertStorms@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This.
Also, these men trying to dictate what women wear never seem to consider just how uncomfortable they make us in public spaces and that many (of all, if any religion) choose to cover up to avoid their gaze (as well as other reasons). They also never seem to have an issue with nuns.. ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Catholicism had its fair share of totalitarian rules. Europeans fought back for 200 years in order to free themselves from their freedom suppressing ideology. Nuns attire serves the same purpose of oppressing women and I holdbthemnin the same contempt.

[โ€“] VulKendov@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok but what about Christian monks, does the habit they wear serve the purpose of oppressing men.

[โ€“] eltimablo@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Of course it doesn't, because that would involve @henrivolney, a man throwing a tantrum over women choosing to wear a bathing suit, being capable of critical thinking.

In a way they do. Their costume is a way to say that they put their life under the authority of a fictional character. The difference is that monks, Christians, Buddhists or Muslims, live apart from society in monasteries. Hidjabs and burkinis are a way to separate women on a daily basis among their secular peers, inside their social fabric.