Go for it! we all will support you! This relates to the case of the 2 bare breasted women who have sued in Sweden because they want to swim bare chested, saying if the men can do it, why cant they?
Besides the amusing (and punning!) element which is inherent in this case, there is actually a serious element as well. The swimming people folks stopped the ladies from wearing their bikini tops because of the security aspect, then there is a hygiene issue and finally there is what we call 'prevailing manners and customs'.
The first one is fine, and acceptable, but the solution is for people to be educated and if they misbehave, to be kicked firmly in the goolies and locked up for some time. For that matter, many people go wild when they see a woman's (see this blog entry for women outside in Yemen!!!), it does not matter whether the woman is clothed, veiled or what. The matter is that she is outside the house so is fair game.
I am very curious about the hygiene issue, what hygiene issue? leaking mammaries when breast-feeding? eh? But the last bit (which the pool people say is most important) is even more curious. This is a catch-all phrase.
Unfortunately, with women's rights, if they open it up to everybody, then the least common denominator gets to be agreed. So the fact that there are Muslim families mean that all the women have to be in that grotesque burkini? or worse in a burqa? Of course not.
This is not a common sense or pragmatic question any more, my friends, this is a matter of principle. And has to be raised to the order of principle, not down to silly sod ideas based upon false morality or patriarchy or old medieval ideas of how men should behave.
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