A previous poster pointed out that the uniforms are chosen by each team. I suspect that if any team member had refused to wear the uniform, she wouldn’t have been permitted to participate.
This whole tedious discussion springs from the fact that some people ignore the topic (reasonable modesty in sports dress) and reconfigure some detail into an offense and an occasion for huffing, just because it involves Muslim volleyball players who dress like Muslim volleyball players.
“I suspect that if any team member had refused to wear the uniform, she wouldn’t have been permitted to participate”
You couldn’t be more wrong. Per the article linked earlier in this thread they were all given an option of what to wear. The athletes said they chose to wear bikinis because it was more comfortable for them.
“This whole tedious discussion springs from the fact that some people ignore the topic (reasonable modesty in sports dress) and reconfigure some detail into an offense and an occasion for huffing, just because it involves Muslim volleyball players who dress like Muslim volleyball players.”
Your casual dismissal of the violence faced by mid-east women is as offensive as people who dismissed the original point on modesty. I stated that had the original author made their point without that example, I would have agreed with much of it.
Rather than not the area of common ground, you chose to defend the bad example by pretending I disagreed with “everything”. You have not addressed the two facts:
1. It was a poor example because that team got crushed and thus did not support his claim that the uniform doesn’t matter from a competitive standpoint.
2. That particular team did not have the freedom to chose a different uniform (at least not without the threat of violence) and thus were a poor example in encouraging others to “chose” modesty.
Another team was available that did well, and did have the freedom to chose. The original author should have made a better choice.