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In reply to the discussion: What is your stance on burkinis or headscarves on French (or American) beaches (or streets)? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)frolicking on the beach. For all you know, they're there in their Jantzens, soaking up the rays. Why do you assume French nuns don't know how to put on a bathing suit because there are a few pictures of elderly Italian nuns, in gray, knee-length dresses, exposing their gams to the sunlight, floating around who haven't managed it?
Why do you keep going on about wetsuits? Is there a church of the Sweaty Nether Regions where "the wetsuit" is a visibly ostentatious religious garment that makes it clear that the wearer belongs to a specific faith? If there isn't, then your point is not taken.
Most of France agrees with this ban, or has no empathy--and that "tough love" approach is the way to go. Women aren't forced to wear face coverings by their misogynistic fathers/husbands any more, because French law has forbidden it for more than a decade.
Have you ever worn hijab? Not a wetsuit, but HIJAB? NO? Well, why don't you take some guidance from men who have so done: