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.

Again, no.
Having an opinion, based on facts, isn't judgey.

You misunderstood. The videos I talk of are of Iran today.

I wouldn't. I usually wear a long dress with leggings under so it would probably just lift my dress up a bit and not mind wet leggings. I love swimming in the sea and have a burkini for that purpose. Husband can't swim.

One would imagine that many muslim women are suppressed to a degree. Some will have adhere to strict protocols, that are set out by the males members of their families.

Usually, minding one’s business would usually apply in this situation, however, one can only imagine how many women are forced to wear unsuitable attire, against their free will.

If your husband dictated that you were dressed from head to toe in clothing, in sweltering temperatures, with sometimes nothing more than a slit to spy out of, would you be happy? I know that I wouldn’t be!

Choices aren't made in a vacuum.

A 20 year old girl getting filler isnt injecting her face "because she wants to"

Whenever I see the instruction "educate yourself" - I know the post will be incoherent.

The thread isnt about Iranian history specifically, its moved about, gone off tangent, as conversations do among people who are interested in things, aka the curious

Loll why are they ‘looking on anxiously’? Dramatic much?

Not all of them want too .

I know it isn't.

Embarrassing - the amount of virtue signalling from some quarters on this thread - that women have choices to wear oppressive garments - in a lot of cases this is the biggest load of bollocks and I'm sure this doesn't help - complicit in the oppression of women - awful..

I think vitamin D deficiency is actually a problem. Darker skinned people don't absorb vitamin D from the sun as easily as light skinned people. Then put them in northern latitudes, with less sunlight and skin covered up. I believe has led to an increase in rickets. In hotter regions the sun was strong enough to deliver a good dose of vitamin D just through the hands. Darker skin does reduce the risk of skin cancer though, as does covering head to toe.

Some of my Muslim friends are completely integrated into UK culture, independent working women and wear the same attire we do. Others don't have much freedom, completely covered and wouldn't be deemed as appropriate to go into the sea.

So, I guess it all depends on the individual situation but yes I would assume they would be unlikely to lift their clothes up to paddle.

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I'd ask you to explain why, rather than just say something is ridiculous, but it seems like everyone has had enough of you on this thread, so I don't want to piss anyone off further.

@TheHazelCritic I assume nothing. I was specifically told by my friend that his mother and sister felt pressurised to cover up / unsafe to go out uncovered. Who do you think you are to assume their thoughts/feelings and tell me they made the choice themselves?

Always have to laugh when someone says it’s a choice. How amazing, all these people in Muslim countries/muslim religion and by pure coincidence the ones who make a completely free choice, completely unhindered by any outside influence to cover up are all women. How amazing. Wonder what the statistical likelihood of that is….

In the West, it IS extreme religious clothing

Oh dear. It is one of the most coherent posts on here.

You will find modesty also a feature of Christianity, Judaism, not just Islam.

Many of the posts here are incredibly ignorant.

As I said upthread, have a look on youtube at 2025 videos of Iranian streets and markets, normal people videoing, walking around random streets, you will see many women with hair flowing free, wearing similar clothes you would see in the UK. Much of what you think you know is baloney.

I nearly got in the sea fully clothed this week. We were at the most beautiful beach and I just wanted to dive in, but I knew Id be sitting around with soaking wet clothing, which were cordory trousers (wrong choice for the day, it was boiling) and a white shirt which would have gone see through!

I dont uncover myself and would have worn a wetsuit normally but didnt have it.

What a missed opportunity but we had a 4 mile walk back and I was worried about the chafing!!!

It's not usually a choice, like lip gloss.

But if you have that thought, then what do you think about the many posts where people ask who they’re voting for and why? Lots of posts on mn along the same line. If you don’t like a post then just scroll on by…

Ok, are they normal clothes to you then?

They look on anxiously because they can't get in the sea with their children. The husbands dive in and swim out to the breakwaters and have a great time.

Not dramatic 'loll"

Which videos are these?