In the year 2016, women are still being told what they can and cannot wear on the beach.
Photographs have surfaced of armed French police officers making a woman on a beach remove some of her clothing as part of a controversial ban on the burkini.
The garment was designed as a clothing option for Muslim women to be more active while still protecting their modesty (see above).
But in recent days, officials in several coastal French towns have banned the body and head covering in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in the country.
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The photos, taken on Tuesday in Nice, show at least four officers standing over a woman who was resting on the beach, and shortly after appeared to remove her long-sleeved tunic (AKA, NOT actually a burkini).
This enforcement comes as a mother-of-two revealed on Tuesday how she was fined on the beach near Cannes wearing leggings, a tunic and a headscarf — and received a ticket for not wearing “an outfit respecting good morals and secularism.”
Oh, so France actually time traveled back to the 1900s, then??
Last week, Nice became the latest French resort to ban the garment, citing how it “overtly manifests adherence to a religion at a time when France and places of worship are the target of terrorist attacks.”
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Aheda Zanetti, creator and manufacturer of the burkini, commented on the regressive nature of France’s ban in an Op-Ed for The Guardian, writing:
“This negativity that is happening now and what is happening in France makes me so sad. I hope it’s not because of racism. I think they have misunderstood a garment that is so positive ├óΓé¼ΓÇ£ it symbolises leisure and happiness and fun and fitness and health and now they are demanding women get off the beach and back into their kitchens? [The burkini] has given women freedom, and they want to take that freedom away? So who is better, the Taliban or French politicians? They are as bad as each other.”
Of course, this sexist and racist ban has outraged many on Twitter, including Susan Sarandon and Sarah Silverman — who called the law “f*cking heinous” after the latest story broke.
Click HERE to see the repugnant photos for yourself, and check out tweets from vocal opposers of the ban (below)!
Women forced 2 conform to dress code to make point that women “forced” 2 conform 2 religious dress code not OK…? https://t.co/Z10mOqsm3p
— Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) August 24, 2016
Fucking heinous, France. Who & what are you protecting, exactly? https://t.co/xdMyQfIgD2
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) August 23, 2016
I’m headed to Europe next month. Where can I buy a Burkini? Preferably wth this print on the front pic.twitter.com/bJmHaAAWBI
— Lexi Alexander (@Lexialex) August 24, 2016
You know who else patrols the way women dress? ISIS and the Taliban. https://t.co/eYJoFImhP4
— Nazeem Hussain (@nazeem_hussain) August 24, 2016
She’s not wearing a #burkini. France’s ‘moral’ police targeted her for her skin colour not her clothes. #BurkiniBan pic.twitter.com/AtAXJ7dSIk
— Kishani Widyaratna (@KishWidyaratna) August 24, 2016
Note that she isn’t even wearing a #burkini – the one piece full body swimsuit. She’s just …wearing clothes. pic.twitter.com/g6V2ToIyPW
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) August 24, 2016
How is this ok? It’s 2016. Women should be able to wear whatever they want. #burkiniban pic.twitter.com/oDsKuVT5PU
— Tanya Burr (@TanyaBurr) August 24, 2016
Pretty sure a future of global peace and harmony doesn’t start with making women take off their leggings #BurkiniBan
— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) August 24, 2016
This suit is too big. This suit is too small. When will it be OK for women to wear what they want? #burkini pic.twitter.com/fi1w4jwVy1
— Christina Cerqueira (@cerqueic) August 23, 2016
What do YOU think of the Burkini Ban??
[Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]
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