Women 'arrested for riding bicycles in Iran'

[slowmotion]

Assos products probably aren't exactly flying off the shelves.

 

[ufkacbln]

Anyone remember the fuss about "Burkinis"... its not just cycling

 

[hoopdriver]

In Djibouti once I saw a woman working behind a bar, wearing a burka, and serving up booze - go figure...

 

[jarlrmai]

This is oppression, pure and simple. You actually vote for the people who make your laws. If you don't like the laws, you can change the people who make them. They cannot.

Iran has voting and women have the vote, yes I know they have Shariah law.

 

[HLaB]

Whilst not as extreme, the women here 100 or so years ago, despite wearing ankle length skirts were called 'brazen hussies'

 

[hoopdriver]

It was cycling that played a huge role in liberating western women from having to wear long skirts. Thanks to the popularity of the bicycle in the 1890s, especially among women, bloomers came into vogue. Even so it took gutsy women to wear them and brave the slings and arrows of conformist society

 

[slowmotion]

Anyone remember the fuss about "Burkinis"... its not just cycling

I rather like that in a Trekkie sort of way.

 

[growingvegetables]

This is oppression, pure and simple. You actually vote for the people who make your laws. If you don't like the laws, you can change the people who make them. They cannot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Iran
And there's an even more substantial list at the bottom of this.

 

[jefmcg]

It's a crime?

or did I misread the thread title?

 

[srw]

It's a crime?

or did I misread the thread title?

I thought it said "women arrested for riding bicycles on a train". Go find a picture of that...

 

[hoopdriver]

Misdemeanor, tops

 

[jefmcg]

I thought it said "women arrested for riding bicycles on a train". Go find a picture of that...

That is a toughee. Nothing comes up in a image search - but this beauty did, and it needs to be shared even if it's not quite on point

 

[Brains]

We are no so far ahead, my Great Grandmother was a keen cyclist in Edinburgh in the 1880's, she had all sorts of issues with her father who very clearly felt that cycling was not something that was done by 'ladies', she had to keep secret that she had won a race between Edinburgh, Glasgow and back

(Great Great Grandfather was a keen Alpinist, and thought it OK to take said great grandmother, as a teenager, climbing in the Alps, where she wore 'breeches' (knickerbocker trousers) which caused a furore at the time, as the local Swiss guides felt women should not be climbing mountains, and certainly not wearing trousers.)