• Nougat@fedia.io
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    22 minutes ago

    I predict that the moment men start showing up wearing thongs, nobody will have a problem with this rule.

  • Makhno@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    No one wants to see your asshole at the pool. If that’s too much for you to handle just stay home

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    9 hours ago

    People are talking about a double standard, but if I’m honest, I don’t really think it is. There’s a real double standard especially with respect to women’s upper bodies, and that bit tacked onto the end about a man from the Gold Coast is absolutely beyond the pale. But if there’s a rule against nudity, presumably there has to be a line somewhere where technically someone might be wearing clothes, but it’s not realistically enough to count?

    Personally, I’d be fine with just allowing nudity and normalising it…at least at pools. That would take away all its power. But so long as we don’t live in that world, it seems reasonable to say that clothing so skinny it gets hidden by the bum cheeks is not within acceptable limits.

    There seem to be some people trying to turn this into a US-style argument about women’s clothing in offices or at schools. But there’s a big difference between a bit of leg above the knee, or exposed shoulders, and the bum crack, I feel. It’s equally inappropriate (or appropriate) for men and for women.

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      9 hours ago

      But I will just quickly add…though I haven’t been to any of the pools in question, I do think this is almost certainly making a mountain out of a molehill. It probably just didn’t need to be said.

    • dugmeup@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      If this is what the council are spending their time on , I’m sure all the issues of the Blue Mountains are solved!

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    6 hours ago

    If they need someone to closely inspect the swimsuits to see if they’re appropriate, I could help out.

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
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      8 hours ago

      Even if it didn’t start as a thong, if the material is worn or your doing breast stroke/frog kick, its gonna end up that way.

      If you can see someone’s butthole in the pool, you are way too close. Just be thankful that its a clean butthole :D

  • No1
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    8 hours ago

    It all changes over time. What was considered revealing in the 1900s is regarded as ridiculous.

    And fashions in swimwear change. High cut, low cut, cover this a bit more, show a bit more of that…

    You know how to fix it? Just stop being a perve. Nobody is forcing you to look at anything.

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    9 hours ago

    But Speedos are fine, right? Because men?

    • ZagorathOP
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      9 hours ago

      From the sounds of it, typical bikini briefs are allowed, only g-strings are not. Of the styles shown in this image from Wikipedia, only the one labelled “thong” would be banned, I think. Men’s speedos are usually most similar to the one labelled “bikini”.

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        5 hours ago

        God forbid you have a fat ass and your bikini rides up