What is your stance on burkinis or headscarves on French (or American) beaches (or streets)?

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145. Case in point, females don't HAVE the right to choose. They can't choose their husbands, they

can't choose to work, in some countries and cultures they can't choose to drive or go to school. Those choices are made for them, burying them under centuries old traditions and bizarre, repressed beliefs. Women in those cultures are NOT individuals. They're goods, no better than a mule, to be traded, used and exploited until they're dead and buried.

They're expected to marry their creepy uncles or cousins at age 14 and pop out hoards of kids and obey every wish and whim of the idiots that they're forced to marry, in addition to the commands of their fathers, brothers and uncles.

Any man who defies such archaic belief systems is shamed for allowing his woman to have power over him.

That isn't islam. Those are fundamental patriarchal cultural belief systems designed by males to remove any potential of the perceived threat by females.

You know, like they used to do in the western civilizations until the chicks decided not to put up with that crap anymore. This sexism isn't limited to arab cultures by any means.

It's hard to grasp the concept of being unable to escape the burden of cultural expectations, isn't it? I used to think 'well, they can just walk away'. But being forced into that belief system from birth makes it difficult and nearly impossible to think any other way.