[rayiner]

Advice from a European woman in a liberal magazine about how MEPs should dress: https://www.politico.eu/article/what-to-wear-at-the-european... (“For the most part, bare arms just look unprofessional.”).

[europeanguy]

She's giving fashion advice, not creating legislation. I'm sure you understand the difference.

In any case, the fact that you tried to turn this around and make it american vs european suggests to me you missed my point. I wasn't suggesting that American culture is similar to Taliban culture. I was suggesting that the specific individuals who created this legislation are similar to talibans, they just happen to be American. I'm sure if you search you can also find Europeans who are culturally like Taliban (just not the specifically instance you linked, for the reason I pointed out).

[rayiner]

> She's giving fashion advice, not creating legislation. I'm sure you understand the difference.

There is no “legislation.” It’s the Missouri legislature’s rules for what its members wear in the legislature while doing official business.

The distinction between “fashion advice” and dress codes in a government body isn’t significant here. If it is uncontroversial in the US and most other places that a government institution can have a dress code that requires “professional” attire when doing business inside that body. Nobody doubts that the Missouri House can have some sort of dress code.

So I took your comment to mean that only people like the Taliban think that bare arms is unprofessional. But from the article it seems to be the case that Europeans also consider bare arms to be unprofessional.

If you meant to attack the concept of mandatory dress codes generally, well then you’re tilting at windmills. It’s not just the Taliban that believe that a government body can tell its members what to wear during official business.