Muslim women who dress modestly...

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If you're at the beach and you want to paddle in the sea, are you able to roll up your trousers? Genuinely wondering as I saw a muslim family on the beach today having great fun. The kids were paddling in the sea. The women weren't but this question sprung in my head.

Except they aren't. It's you who is being judgemental.

@DreamTheMoors also if you search in youtube you will find many homemade videos of the streets and markets of Iran showing the majority of women wearing the same clothes as you, some with headscarves and some with hair flowing free.

Not ridiculous or a comparison. Please report back on how modest you felt.

Disgusting.

Saw this in the South of France recently...on a boiling hot beach, dads in shorts splashing around in the sea with kids while mums swathed from head to toe in black stayed silently on the sand, watching. What a lesson for those little girls...and boys. You either believe in gender equality or you don't. .

An example of Iranian traditional clothing.
I know where the miniskirt came from, so do you not see how that photo was due to the western influence rather than a sign of "freedom"?
Is it not oppressive that women were forbidden from covering up? Seems like it only works one way

Nope.
I'm calling out judgment.
HTH

Yes. Really there’s no excuse for people to be so ill informed and gobble up war mongering propaganda in 2025 when there is so much raw footage that shows the real Iran.

honestly I’m all for curiosity and dialogue but your thread has invited some deep rooted prejudices held by some posters. Some of it is light bashing and it’s tiring to have ignorant people make comments that a woman dressing a certain way ‘boils their piss’ and must be because she is oppressed.

Muslim here.

I roll up my leggings or pick up my dress lmao.
I have often tucked my dress into my bikini bottoms and flung myself around flag beach in fuerteventura

In Dubai and other Muslim countries I often wore like modest swimsuits, which is essentially for me anyways, like a ballet outfit! Tankini with a little flare.

In the UK at swimming lessons, normal swimsuit or tankini.

A lot of my Muslim friends will roll up or swan around in kaftans bikinis! It really depends on the individual

It is a ridiculous* *comparison.

Christ almighty - it was a photo..
Lighten up.

Then don’t use one photo as licence to come online and chat sh*t 🤫

Yes I have worked with many older women from the Iranian diaspora and heard lots about their lives pre revolution. Heartbreaking what they lost.

And I was very curious about it of course or nosy whichever way some people want to put it

We have just been in Cyprus and went to the local water park where Muslim men and kids played in the pool all day with common swim wear and the mums had to simply wait outside the pool covered head to toe in black .
I think curiosity is very normal , my 8 year old girl had a hard time accepting anyone would choose to be that uncomfortable despite us explaining it was a choice . She is still adamant nobody would do it by real choice . She is quite the mini feminist so very stubborn.

What's the actual reasoning for women having to cover up but not men

Because they want to

Very judgy, arent you...

You sound very much like the Muslim women I'm friends with. They vary from one dress code to another, living life freely and enjoying themselves along the way.

I said having to. Not choosing to

@TheHazelCritic She wasn’t brown. She was black.

And I’m aware young girls aren’t required to cover. Doesn’t mean their parents don’t make them. There was a girl at DD’s primary who was covering her hair in Year 1. I felt sick the first time I saw that. A little girl, no more than 6, being told showing her hair is immodest. Her mother wore a face veil, something that I for one don’t even want to see in a primary school but there you are.

(I would assume that the country this girl comes from is this country. Or do you assume that all non-white or Muslim people were born somewhere else?)

Speaking about Iranian history, particularly that of women and girls, in an educated and open way is actually very important. That would have been much less goady than the actual question in this thread.

I completely agree with your 8 year old @Crazyworldmum - even when people think they’re making that choice, I don’t believe it as it’s part of the indoctrination. All very sad & horrendous in today’s world given the situation in Iraq, Iran & Afghanistan etc. So sad.