If you are referring to my daughter, then she may have had a case but the sheer weight of public embarrassment from everyone including her peers, many of whom refused to remover her images from their pages, would have ground her to dust.
Such is the pervasiveness of Facebook on one hand, and the so- called oppressive paternalistic culture that we live in.
Personally, I’m glad she was able to learn from the episode and move on, and not get drawn into some test case scenario.
There are tons of test cases every year, because so many people want to make women “learn” this lesson over and over when in reality, the dictate to “cover up” is what needs to be unlearnt.
This part almost made me do a spit take.
When they refused, citing their rights, the officer allegedly disagreed with them, saying there had been complaints and noting there were children in the area.
Also the “higher standard of decency” part at the end. How about a higher standard of treating each other with decency, no matter how they are dressed or how they look?
Because you know, children called the police to complain… LOL
Oh please. Spare us your nostalgia for a time that was in the past but is NOT the entirety of history. You yearn for a time when things happened to have shifted to a “morality” that gave you power and security. You can’t stand to live in a changing world, too bad. We won’t go backwards just so you can feel more of your former privilege.
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