So they, like. Passed a law saying women can wear whatever they feel comfortable in while swimming. And then, people got mad that women were wearing burkinis, so they de-funded the city until they banned them?

I mean, I see big dudes that wear long sleeve shirts into the pool to hide their man-boobs. They could also be doing it to limit sun exposure, which seems reasonable. I don't judge. I figure these burkinis are kinda like that? Like, as long as nobodies wearing so much clothing that it becomes a drowning risk... What's the BFD?

According to this site; they established these rules of only wearing tighter fitting swimwear because then people don't wear them out and about, so they stay cleaner, thus don't introduce as much dirt into the pool. (Makes sense since my public pool growing up wanted us to shower in the gym showers immediately prior to getting in so... I guess this is a valid concern at most pools)

However, they say that when they changed the rules to allow for burkinis, it was done as a religious exemption. So now the court says that changing the rules just for one random religion goes against the spirit of French law, so they changed it back.

I mean, I'm all for not giving a fuck about random religions and their weird draconian rules, but... Couldn't they just have them shower at the pool prior to swimming? And think of all the poor fat men that desperately want to hide their shame 😞