Protests in Iran are a reminder: Stop policing what women want — or don’t want — to wear

A portrait of Mahsa Amini is held during a rally earlier this month in Washington calling for regime change in Iran following the death of Amini, a young woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran’s notorious “morality police.” (AP)

I get irritated whenever I come across vintage pictures of Iranian and Afghan women wearing miniskirts and bikinis decades before they were forced to cover their hair and bodies.

The images themselves don’t bother me.