• Silverseren
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    1088 months ago

    Like, I get wanting to defend the rights of women under oppressive religions and governments, but how exactly does controlling what women are allowed to wear accomplish that?

  • @anlumo@feddit.de
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    648 months ago

    Austria also has a law like that, and it has been a complete shitshow. There have been fines for someone wearing a scarf while riding a bike and for someone at work dressed up in a body suit in front of the shop for advertisement reasons (like a mascot).

    When the law went into effect, the newspapers reported that there were about ten muslim women currently wearing coverings in the whole country.

    • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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      168 months ago

      After years of covid where everyone would supposedly die in terror attacks if the face coverings happened I’m surprised this fear mongering still manages to pass.

      Full face covering burqas are not really an Islamic thing. The headscarves are. The burqas are a cultural thing for some. And usually almost nobody actually wears them. But you can get brownie points with the racists for passing these laws and show that your country is well on the way to moral decline.

  • @342345@feddit.de
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    388 months ago

    YES!

    It’s important how much clothing you wear. Not too much and not too little. It MUST BE the RIGHT amount.

    Humans.

  • @nikscha@feddit.de
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    328 months ago

    I hate this. What if I wanna cover my face to evade facial detection? That’s illegal now?

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    What if I’m cold or want to go skiing? I could wrap a scarf over my face which I have done. Is that not illegal because it’s not the same garment?

    What about COVID? Wouldn’t masks conflict with that also? Of all countries I’d never imagine one with a colder climate to make such a law.

      • Sibbo
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        88 months ago

        Does getting spanked by my husband if I don’t cover my face count as a health and safety concern?

        • @crispy_kilt@feddit.de
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          78 months ago

          It counts as a crime against your physical integrity and dignity and you should report him to the police

        • JokeDeity
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          78 months ago

          I’m sure you’re joking, but this is actually the problem here. No women are wearing them by choice, they are either forced or have been indoctrinated their entire lives to believe it’s their choice, but in a vacuum they would not choose persecution and near enslavement by their own volition. It’s just misogyny on a grand systematic scale.

    • @LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      78 months ago

      Not sure where you’re getting your masks from but mine sure aren’t covering my whole face.

      Can see the argument for skiing masks and shit though

    • @_s10e@feddit.de
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      68 months ago

      Austria has a similar law. And a website that connects the local whether report with the rules for when wearing a scarf is okay.

      • @Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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        68 months ago

        So I have to look at the internet to see if I’m allowed to protect myself from the cold? Oh not officially cold enough even though it’s making my face hurt, guess I’ll just suffer because God forbid I’m allowed to be the one who decides how much of my body I went exposed to the elements.

        You like authoritarian control of the most basic parts of people’s lives, most people don’t want to live in a world like that.

  • HubertManne
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    228 months ago

    These do seem inconsistant. What about 95 masks? that covers the face and nose.

    • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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      But not the eyes. Besides it’s easy to include an exception for legitimate medical purposes - even considering the law was written by a bunch of quasi-fascists I would be surprised if that’s not covered in the law, especially since the article mentions there are exceptions.

      • HubertManne
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        Do those other things cover the eyes? How do they see? Isn’t something that covers the eyes essentially a blind fold. This makes em wonder further. I have never been to switzerland but I am under the impression it can be cold. I am from a place where it is cold. In extreme cold I have scarf, baclava, etc combined with goggles. Is that not allowed? Is skiing at all popular there??? (yeah that last one is a bit satirical rhetorical)

        • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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          I translated the law on Deepl (emphasis mine):

          Art. 10a Prohibition of covering one’s own face

          1 No person may cover his or her face in public places and in places that are accessible to the public or where services that can be used by anyone are offered; this prohibition does not apply to places of worship.

          2 No one may force a person to cover his or her face on account of his or her gender.

          3 The law shall provide for exceptions. These include exclusively reasons of health, safety, climatic conditions and local customs.

          Art. 197 para. 122 12 Transitional provision to Art. 10a (prohibition of covering one’s own face)

          The implementing legislation for Article 10a shall be drafted within two years of its adoption by the people and the cantons.

          1 SR 101 2 The final number of this transitional provision will be determined by the Chancellor’s Office after the referendum.

      • @geissi@feddit.de
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        38 months ago

        Seems like this is the initiative they passed.
        The English language selection in the top right doesn’t seem to work but (3) states:

        The law provides for exceptions. These include exclusively reasons of health, safety, climatic conditions and local customs.

        It’s a bit vague but they seem to have thought of it.

        What I find curious is that this seems to be no mere law but a change to the constitution.

        • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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          18 months ago

          What I find curious is that this seems to be no mere law but a change to the constitution.

          That’s how the Swiss do it: Change the constitution via referendum, let the government figure out the details which it has to because it’s bound to the constitution.

  • JokeDeity
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    218 months ago

    I can’t even take half of you seriously. Every religion is a cult, but this one is an extremely misogynistic cult and you don’t get anything for being their unpaid defenders online beyond the knowledge that you protected extreme womanizers.

    • Lols [they/them]
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      68 months ago

      not even trying to mask that this law is literally just about bullying muslims lol

      • @Redrum714@lemm.ee
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        88 months ago

        Ah yes not being able to oppress people is bullying.

        I guess bullying can sometimes be a good thing.

        • Lols [they/them]
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          28 months ago

          i think youre commenting on the wrong post, ‘not being able to oppress people’ isnt featured in this one

          this one actually specifically features religious oppression getting approved as law

          luckily for those dipshit cultists whoops sorry, ‘muslim women whose safety we care about very much’, getting forced to go against their fundamentalist families or bite continuous fines is very safe, and will turn out very well for them

    • @sergih@feddit.de
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      68 months ago

      so u punish the act, you dont do a blanket statrment that mostly affects the followets of one religion, u make it illegal to: -force someone to wear something not make it illegal to: -wear smt

      Dont you rralize that thosecountries that are fucked up, have sharia law etc, are doing the same thing? One thing in common: Controlling how people dress.

      In one you are controlling by telling people they have to wear x, in the other by telling people they cannot wear x, at the end of the day the affected are those who want to be able to choose, not some fucking terrorist.

  • @electrogamerman@lemmy.world
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    218 months ago

    I wonder if all the Muslims here saying “women should be dressing whatever they want”, also protest the same in muslims countries where women are killed for not covering their hair.

      • Lols [they/them]
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        148 months ago

        i am glad that we are fighting these terrible regimes that enforce what women can and cannot wear by letting the regime enforce what women can and cannot wear

        high five gang

          • Lols [they/them]
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            68 months ago

            …so as i was saying, i am glad we are fighting women being forced to dress themselves a certain way by forcing them to dress themselves a certain way

          • @sergih@feddit.de
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            58 months ago

            I’m sorry, why is the ability of choice, an inclusion of force to you?

            Don’t u see the 3 “shades”?

            -Force women to wear smt -Let women choose what to wear -Force women not to wear something

            I know the problem is that you don’t wanna sre it, but hopefully somebody sees this before going the wrong path.

          • @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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            Ok let’s look at your alternative.

            What do you ACTUALLY think women who are being forced by their families or communities to wear the veil are going to do with this kind of ban in place?

            If you guessed anything other than “become a domestic prisoner”, you’re wrong and have no place spouting off about this shit.

            This is the hostile architecture of multicultural feminism. You’re not helping shit, you’re just pushing the problem into the corners where it isn’t going to be seen by anyone who could raise the issue.

  • @sergih@feddit.de
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    178 months ago

    A country telling women what to wear will be on the same page in my book as the country telling women what not to wear.