General Discussion

And the point about France and the 1st Amendment, I get that too.

I actually wrote the post upthread as a pre-emptive answer to the people here who might be inclined to defend Iran on this matter, but were complaining about the Burkini ban a month or so ago. But it probably came off as coming from the other direction.

I'm generally pro-freedom, I think that is the answer to all these things, including cultural oppression. The way to defeat the people who can't deal with sex and nudity is to simply exercise, flaunt if you will, the freedom which makes them so bothered. Maybe instead of arresting the woman in the burkini, have a day where 10,000 women go topless at the same beach. Or every day. Either make the uptight people move into the 21st century, or else get so uncomfortable that they find a Theocracy more to their liking.

But I can't tell France how to manage their own affairs, no.