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Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 02:57 AM Aug 2016

Is the controversial incident with French Police on "Nice" Beach sexist?

In my humble opinion, when male police officers command a woman to remove her clothing - for ANY reason - it is sexist!

French police make woman remove burkini on Nice beach
Photographs have emerged of armed French police confronting a woman on a beach and making her remove some of her clothing as part of a controversial ban on the burkini.

Authorities in several French towns have implemented bans on the burkini, which covers the body and head, citing concerns about religious clothing in the wake of recent terrorist killings in the country.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/24/french-police-make-woman-remove-burkini-on-nice-beach

Does this song seem to describe the incident?

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jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
2. Well yeah. Buncha bullies surrounding a woman and making her take off her clothes? It's
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 04:31 AM
Aug 2016

a wonder they stopped there. I guess they could have raped or killed her for not complying?

Hard for the misogynists in blue to get much more sexist than this. Think any of these big, tough, French soldiers earned a purple heart for this dangerous exercise in molesting a woman?

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
8. Not at all. I suspect if these were armed russians making a nun strip her habit off your
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 05:40 AM
Aug 2016

self-righteousness would be coming out of your other face.

Btw - in case you don't hear from me again...

masmdu

(2,536 posts)
9. Okey dokey. Except you're wrong...
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 06:00 AM
Aug 2016

They weren't a "buncha bullies" they were cops doing their jobs.
They weren't "making her take her clothes off" they explained the situation and told her that she could leave, be ticketed, or change her clothes.
And, although I've never lived in France, my guess is that raping and killing for non compliance of police orders is not how they are trained to handle the situation.
And where is the "molestation" you claim?
.....so, yeah, hyperbolic is the right word to describe your post....
Oh, and cute way to bail out of a discussion that calls you out....can't or unwilling to discuss on the facts just bail.
Anyway, you've made yourself clear for all to see so nothing more needed.

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Marr

(20,317 posts)
16. Hiding behind words like 'misogynist' and 'sexist' while defending Islam is sincerely comedic.
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 10:49 AM
Aug 2016

I think you broke my ironyometer.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
17. I don't have to defend Isalm. We have freedom of religion in this country. Except for the fascists
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 11:14 AM
Aug 2016

and Nazi wanna-bes, it's not really a problem.

There is irony, but you are measuring it in a different place than you think.

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
4. IMHO, no.
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 04:54 AM
Aug 2016

I wish the adults of the world would speak up. No, this has nothing to do with "sexism." The people of France are scared to death right now because of the terrorism that has befallen their country in the last year. Just like here in the US after 9/11, Muslims are being discriminated against in many ways.

"Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life." ~unknown

masmdu

(2,536 posts)
14. No. Actually the law targets an article of clothing not women.
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 10:30 AM
Aug 2016

If a man were to wear (be made to wear) that article of clothing the response would be the same.

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