The framing of this suggests that this is only against women, men also have swimwear codes in France. It's crazy
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Looks like they have em in the USA too
Time to jail this repugnant dress code violator!
Come on now, they just wanna see Zohran without his clothes on! Now we can't blame them for that...
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Mandatory speedo?
Correct, shorts are also banned. The same city tried to change that to but got shot down there too.
Since state and religion are separated, public pools cannot make an exception based on religion. France had fairly strict hygienic rules for public swimming pools, which prohibit loose fitting garments.
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The fact that this comment section is full of "removed by mods" but still has so much racist nonsense... this topic really makes the scratched liberals come out of the woodwork.
Please report those comments so we can get to them.
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The amount of Reddit Atheists showing up here who would wish China was actually putting Uyghur Muslims in extermination camps is off the charts.
In my view, one isn't really an atheist if they are a liberal (or conservative, but I repeat myself) as it is effectively another religion, with Capital as it's "god", it is kind of like those liberals that call themselves "socialist" and support controlled opposition, compatible "leftist", and friend of epstein, bernie sanders.
Edit: for some reason I can't see the rest of the comments while logged in, so I'll put it here: I think a more accurate and inclusive phrase would be "freedom of religion or atheism", as it would be shitty if one had to declare some religion or another without just "none" as an option.
Edit: Edit: From the rest of this thread I think people may be confused, you cannot just "ban" the "opiate of the masses", as long as people are in pain they will seek a painkiller, and denying it to them just turns those very people against you, if the world becomes your enemy you have little chance. To reach synthesis you must collapse the contradiction by combining elements of thesis and anti-thesis in such a manor that it favors the non toxic elements of both and becomes stable.
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Both men and women are required to cover their hair in pools?
In most public pools yes. Prevents hair from clogging filters. Or that is the official line.
Yeah, you don't properly shower before a pool in France normaly. You change into your swiming gear, then shower (all gendered areas) with gear on, then pool. The swimming gear is suppose to keep the filth in, so only tight enough gear is allowed. In Sweden for example it is a bit opposite. Get naked, shower (gender separated areas), put on gear, pool. You have showered and washed your hair out, you are good to go.
So when kids pee in the pool all the pee stays inside their pants I'm sure...
Until you’ve swum in a public pool that requires full body wash and shower, naked, you don’t realise the difference it makes to the chlorine amount required to keep the pool clean. Denmark has explicit instructions about where to wash, pre-soaped single use sponges that must be used, but hardly any chlorine in the pool water.
Humans are filthy, yo. I’d rather everyone cleans properly before I have share pool water with you.
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Comments section validating my hatred for France.
This is G*rmany erasure
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Okay i'm both dumb and uninformed but I dont have enough context to be confident I understand the bottom part. Somewhere they outlawed swimwear that muslim women would wear to a pool?
Not quite. In 2022, the city of Grenoble passed a law which allowed women to wear their bathing suit of choice rating than mandating a specific style of dress.
In 2025 there was been a successful court challenge which forces the law be retracted and to be brought back in line with national regulations. On the basis that the rule change was made to accomidate a religious group, which I guess is illegal in France.
In France you are not allowed to wear loose or long swimwear in pools for "hygiene". It is also banned for men to wear boardshorts. They have to wear speedo style garments.
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I shouldn't have to explain to my son that other cultures exist, think of the children! /s
Oh god my daily reminder of why I loathe western people opinions.
I mean, you're on the Europe community, but I'll bite. What is it in particular that seems to be crushing your cashews?
Why are you acting like you can't understand what Islamaphobia and racism is and why Euros are especially obnoxious about their subscription to Islamaphobia and racism?
I normally avoid this community now (Euros don't like it when you act like colonialism happens still), but you seem to recognize colonialism in Britain, so, it's not like you can't understand it. Did you mean you literally just wanted some examples of what we, of course, anticipate to be what they are referencing?
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