Freely wearing a certain type of swim-wear is equivalent to buying and selling human beings - and treating them as one's 'possessions' - to buy/sell, beat, thrash, put to work, breed etc etc ?
That alone illustrates the vapidity of your arguments.
It is *your* opinion - and only that - that a 'burkini' is a symbol of a "patriarchal system of oppression" - in fact, a 'burkini' is nowhere mandated in the Islamic codes. At best, you could argue that it's an attempt to some how map the burka to a 'swimwear' version. But that is already a violation of the received tradition. Also, Muslim women have minds of their own, and might have their own independent doctrinal justifications to wear 'burkinis' as and when they wish - without your personal interpretations of adhering to 'patriarchal oppression etc' automatically over-riding their views. This is something you would need to debate with them - not assume as proven in your favour.
Finally, it's simply silly to think that the 'bikini' is automatically a sign of freedom from 'patriarchal oppression'. Plenty of feminist thought views such beachwear, and other fashion, as the work of commercial forces and implicit patriarchy forcing women into conforming to 'fit-in', developing unrealistic body-image, and goading women and girls into acting as 'objects' of male attraction.
Freely wearing a certain type of swim-wear is equivalent to buying and selling human beings - and treating them as one's 'possessions' - to buy/sell, beat, thrash, put to work, breed etc etc ?
That alone illustrates the vapidity of your arguments.
It is *your* opinion - and only that - that a 'burkini' is a symbol of a "patriarchal system of oppression" - in fact, a 'burkini' is nowhere mandated in the Islamic codes. At best, you could argue that it's an attempt to some how map the burka to a 'swimwear' version. But that is already a violation of the received tradition. Also, Muslim women have minds of their own, and might have their own independent doctrinal justifications to wear 'burkinis' as and when they wish - without your personal interpretations of adhering to 'patriarchal oppression etc' automatically over-riding their views. This is something you would need to debate with them - not assume as proven in your favour.
Finally, it's simply silly to think that the 'bikini' is automatically a sign of freedom from 'patriarchal oppression'. Plenty of feminist thought views such beachwear, and other fashion, as the work of commercial forces and implicit patriarchy forcing women into conforming to 'fit-in', developing unrealistic body-image, and goading women and girls into acting as 'objects' of male attraction.