Will you be wearing a mini skirt on 6 June?

[Italiangreyhound]

Will you be wearing a mini skirt on 6 June?

I am kind of divided. I would love to support them but I am not sure I even own one and I must confess I would not look good in one!!! Should I put my fears to one side for the sake of sisterhood?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-32932003

Erm well no I don't own any!

I find this sort of thing... difficult.

The picture of a load of young women in miniskirts posing in a sideways on pose with their hands on their hips doesn't look very, what's the word, anti-patriarchal to me.

I'm not in Tunisia though and I'm not young so I'll leave it to the people who are facing this stuff to think of ways to protest against it. And I can see their point. And there's nothing wrong with legs and women of course should be allowed to wear us much or as little as they prefer.

Yes WhirlpoolGalaxyM51 I am not a mini skirt wearer at all! Not for at least 10 years. But I do feel very angry with the crap 'real me' control their women stuff, it make me so mad. The comparison of a woman with a lollipop.

But yes, when I saw the two images, a headscarf and a mini shirt. I don't want to wear either, thanks!

I have skirts that are just above knee length but as Whirlpool says as I'm not in Tunisia it would be a rather pointless gesture.

I agree that a "we will wear what we want" poster might have been better with skirts of all lengths, jeans and trousers.

Yes, Lass I agree, a much better approach.

No, as i won't be in Tunisia and have my own battles to fight.

Thanks for mentioning it. I had not seen it anywhere else. The "be a man " campaign is indefensible.

YY the be a man thing is horrendous and I hope that the women protesting this get the attention they want to highlight their points in the media and hopefully make some people think a bit.

I hadn't realised you had to be in Tunisia to wear a mini skirt for this, I thought it was pretty much anywhere! I must have misread it.

I think they are asking for people everywhere to join in, that's how I read it too.

I don't think you have to be in Tunisia but unless it's widely publicised it's not going to be obvious why one is wearing a mini-skirt.

Good for them. I hope they are safe doing that. I can't imagine that me wearing a mini skirt in the UK would help their cause in the slightest.

I don't wear mini-skirts and I would normally think a minskirt day is missing the point - but in this case I think it's very clever.

Their point is that miniskirts have been worn in Tunisia for longer than the veil - so it counters any argument about tradition etc etc, and makes the point that not all Muslim countries have forever had women plodding around in black top to toe coveralls or being veiled. It's surprising sometimes - we forget that a lot of this is quite recent and it doesn't deserve to be treated with the gravitas it often is.

www.pagef30.com/2009/04/iran-in-1970s-before-islamic-revolution.html
This is a brilliant set of photos from Iran before the revolution. Clothes no different to the ones we would have worn in the 70s, including miniskirts.

All proves it's religious fundamentalism rather than cultural.

god its so sad for a country to go so backwards.

You can find similar pictures from Afghanistan if you look hard enough

What does it matter if they wear mini-skirts or not? Just as long as they keep their hair covered.

You guessed wrong then Jann. Oops, silly old you.

jann these are muslim Women organising and protesting. We have the right to support their movement as much as we want.
Women should be free to wear top to toe covering or mini skirts as they wish. It's all about freedom and liberty.
And you misunderstand hijab quite a lot if you think that a woman just had to cover her hair.

I also think a wear whatever you want approach with a mix of attire would have been better than the mini skirt.

I think it is unnecessarily provocative- not sexually, but in terms encouraging and playing into he hands of the black and white viewpoint that they are trying to counter. Their opponents will surely just seize it as 'evidence' that they are right and there are two polarised choices- modest / 'whore' or similar.

I think it fails by ignoring the complexity and variety which should be at the crux of the issue of wearing what we want, not be playing into this dichotomy.