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Well OK.  Does it seem ridiculous to you that at any beach, men are expected to cover from the waist down, and women are expected to cover chest AND from the waist down? No? Then you ARE capable of understanding that women and men might have different dress codes. The requirement to cover applies to both sexes but is operationalized differently.

Men are not exempt from anything.  Men, like women, are expected to be modest. Men, like women, are not supposed to stare. Men, like women, are expected to stay pure.  Men, like women, are supposed to not have sex with people they aren't married to.[/quote]

At the beach, people cover their "private" parts, or parts of their body that are typically deemed sexual.  For women this includes the chest but not men.  However, the hijab apparently sexualizes hair, the problems with which people on this thread have discussed at length.

Again, there is theory and then there is practice.  In theory, men are supposed to be modest, but in practice, men in Muslim countries get to wear whatever the hell they want unmolested, whereas women do not.  Women are pressured to cover up and then are antagonized anyway.[/quote]

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