After 9/11 I’d suffer through conversations about how we can’t trust people in Muslim “garb” on planes. Duh, the hijackers were wearing chinos and button-down dress shirt you idiots.

For that matter, if France is so hell-bent on “rescuing” women for their own good from oppressive, patriarchal systems that demand obedience and chastity from them, then why aren’t they liberating nuns, too?

my immediate thought was, what happens if a super-pale or even albino woman (or man!) wears a similar garment to avoid getting burned alive by the sun while still enjoying the water? My guess is that as long as the people wearing what is essentially a wetsuit with a hood are not immediately identifiable as muslim (aka…

I have skin cancer and have to wear a UV-blocking suit, which basically looks like a regular wetsuit but also has a hoodie-like head-cover attached, plus gloves and socks I can slip on and then a scarf-like thing I can wrap around the front of my neck. Basically, just my face shows if I put the whole deal on. It’s a…

This is not a dress code, and this has nothing to do with speaking French (which is not in any way relevant to this conversation).

Thank you for posting the actual picture of the lady in question. She wasn’t even WEARING a burkini! She was just wearing freaking clothes, and they made her take them off. There is NO law against wearing clothes. I hope her family sues the shit out of them (assuming you can sue police in France).

Are they coming for my long-sleeved swim shirt? And the long, loose pants I often wear. No. Because I am blonde and white. That is all this is about- discriminating against a specific group. At what point are they flat-out banning women head-scarved Muslim women from the beach? This is not the way to prevent extremism.

And if a woman is wearing a t-shirt and pants on the beach, will she be forced to change into a bikini? This is complete fucking garbage. And the ‘burkini’ isn’t religious wear. It’s just an article of clothing women can wear if they don’t want to wear a revealing bathing suit. I’ve seen plenty of women who aren’t…

This is so ridiculous. How can they not see how absurd this is for police to demand women remove their clothing in public when they pose no threat and are causing no problems?

Who could have ever conceived that a network built around the premise that sexual harassment didn’t exist was a hotbed of sexual harassment? Next you will try to tell me that they harbor anti-gay and racist attitudes as well.

Well, what is he going to say, “yep, I did that.”?

He’s willing to die to force Batman to kill someone, which is very much a comic iteration that hadn’t shown up in film yet.

“You may be wondering what else I do with my free time. I spend a lot of it sitting around on my lazy ass watching TV. But also do you, so don’t judge.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

am i the only person who hates black splashes?

“It is impossible to talk about alcohol and not talk about sex.”

That lip between the wood and the tile would drive me fucking insane.

I make six figures and would be scared to death to plunk $400K down on an apartment. (My parents are dead so they can’t fucking help.)

Or D: you’re into virgins because you’re bad or lazy (don’t care if she gets off) at sex and she won’t know the difference the first time. Lowered expectations.