Totally normal
In a strange turn of events, a British woman visiting (or living in, it isn’t clear from the media coverage) Dubai decided to strip down to a bikini after an Emirati woman chided her for showing too much cleavage.
Ignoring the fact that strutting around the mall in a bikini is not a normal thing to do anywhere, this has inspired calls from Britons to ban the burqa in their country. Why? Because, as one commenter states, “We can’t go to islamic [sic] countries and dress as we wish, but they can come here and wear those burkhas [sic] and we have to grin and bear it.” Note the comment’s high rating; it’s been upvoted by no fewer than 3,000 visitors. At the same time, if you check the most downvoted comments, all are in defense of the UAE’s ruling. Not being British myself, I don’t know if that’s a reflection on the British populace or just the Mail‘s readers.
Meanwhile, the crazies are calling it “courageous”.
Ah yes, because contributing to your own objectification while simultaneously flouting local laws and offending the local populace is the true meaning of courage.
No word on whether or not the bikini-wearer was hot.
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Three-quarters of non-Muslims in the UK believe Islam is negative for Britain. But Daily Mail readers are probably particularly intolerant.
Posted by Benjamin Geer | August 6, 2010, 9:11 amI can follow the logic perfectly: why that intolerance against the body, why that repression of nature? If you believe in a creator god, then why to hide “his” creation under man-made clothes?
I’m solidarious with Palestine, Iraq, West Sahara, the Berbers, the Kurds and the Chechens… but is illogical to pretend that some medieval religious prejudice should prevail, be it Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu or whatever. Religions are a scam: all them equally.
Long live naturally naked bodies (where warm enough)!
Posted by Maju | August 6, 2010, 11:15 amDear Maju, when running around naked, we go back long way before the Middle Ages and even then, the more status one had in society, the more man-made clothes and ornaments he wore
Posted by Billeke | August 6, 2010, 11:42 amNo comment on the ridiculousness of telling off an apparent stranger in a public place for "showing too much cleavage"? I can imagine how the frustration caused by this claustrophobic sanctimony would eoncourage some form of reactionary behaviour. Sure, like stripping down to one's bikini is not the most mature way of dealing with this idiocy but why are those two mounds of female flesh so villified in the first place?
Posted by Saracen | August 10, 2010, 4:15 pm