France Asserts Women's Right to Wear Clothes

[Jarnauga]

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Interesting thing here is that there are already prohibitions on clothing. Facial coverings as already mentioned are one example, but there are also restrictions on minimal clothing, which are again generally more restrictive on women than men. Why is it 'moral' to tell women what they must wear, while deplorable to tell women what they cannot wear?

Nobody is telling anyone what to wear or not to wear.. it's just a small restriction on clothing. It's funny because if i remember well, the "dont hide your face" thing was actually to prevent violent "demonstrators" to hide their face during demonstrations so they could not be prosecuted if the police would recognize them on video.. nothing to do with islamic veil (i should research this, i may be wrong).

Pretty much any laws are a compromise between freedom and security. The little freedom you lose by not being able to cover your face is considered not as important as the security gains you get. And that's actually why the Conseil d'Etat told the mayors to go fuck themselves: wearing a burkini is not considered a "trouble à l'ordre public" (risk of trouble in the public space => basically what gives the power to mayors, or any public representative to not allow or forbid a demonstration for example) and forbiding it was stepping on the freedom to wear whatever you want in the public space.