The Cannes Red Carpet 2025
The Cannes Film Festival in France has long been a "nothing succeeds like excess" event with the movie stars and star wannabees strutting their stuff on the red carpet. I have enjoyed the Toronto Film Festival and one of our daughters once worked for TIFF but nothing compares with Cannes.
This year the organizers have advised the celebs not to show up naked, or nearly-naked, as is the trend for glitter moments around the world such as the recent Met Gala. Needless to say, this caution is directed largely at women because men show up in tuxedos and the occasional outrageous outfit but generally keep their naughty bits tucked in. So much for equality.
French Burkini Police, serving and protecting
What comes to mind is the French police who patrol beaches to prohibit women from wearing too much when they head in for a swim or lounge on the shore. According to now ominpresent AI:
...French police have patrolled beaches and enforced dress code policies, particularly regarding burkinis and other swimwear deemed "contrary to secularism". In some instances, police have ordered women to remove their swimwear or have fined them for violating these policies. These actions have sparked controversy, with some arguing they violate individual rights and freedom of expression.
While I am unsettled by dress codes of any religion that permit men to look like everyone around
them while the women are required to assume "modest" attire I also believe in freedom from
government overreach and imposed secularism. Of course, here in Canada we see this with
Quebec laws. Weirdly, this seems to make secularism a religion, and a repressive one at that.
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world...
Tom Cruise & other men in suits at Cannes 2025
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