I don't think that anybody is assuming that Iranians don't want (the right) to wear bikinis. What they are objecting to is the assumption that lots of Iranians do.
--- On Mon, 6/29/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> This is twisted beyond all recognition. If people don't
> want to wear bikinis, it's their own damn business. If they
> want to wear burkas, ditto. I prefer bikinis to burkas, but
> that's me. What annoys me no end is the assumption that many
> Iranians don't want to wear bikinis, or short of that,
> wouldn't like to be free of scarves etc. when walking in
> public, and that those desires to be free of enforced
> modesty are somehow elitist or frivolous. To assume that
> many Iranians don't want "Western" pleasures is what's
> exoticizing.
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