Women disguised as men at the football match
Posted on 05/01/2018 1:48:11 PM PDT by BBell
Several Iranian women have caught people's attention by revealing the lengths they go to to attend a football match.
Donning beards and wigs, they disguised themselves as men so they could watch their team, Persepolis, play rivals Sepidrood at the Azadi stadium in Tehran last Friday.
Images of the women at the stadium have been widely shared on both Persian and English social media.
Although there's no official ban on women going to sporting events in Iran, it is rare for them to attend as they are often refused entry. Prior to the Islamic revolution of 1979, women were allowed to attend sporting events.
Women have been punished for attending games in the past. In 2014, British-Iranian activist Ghoncheh Ghavami was detained after attempting to watch a men's volleyball match in Iran. And in March 2018 35 women were detained for trying to attend a football match.
In February, women were allowed to watch a major basketball game in Tehran - but they had to sit in an area separate to men.
For one of the women pictured, it was the third time she had pulled off the trick. In an interview she gave to the moderate newspaper Iran, she explained that each time she had sneaked in she had used a different disguise and make-up.
"I Google for different make-up [tutorials] and learn new ways and apply them to go to the stadium," she said.
She told the newspaper she had been stopped by security only once. She encouraged other women to get in touch and offered to train them in disguise techniques.
Asked whether she was ever scared of being detained, she replied: "Why should I be scared? We women do not commit any crimes by going to stadiums. The law has not defined women's presence at stadiums a crime.
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Women disguised as men at the football match
You beat me to it!
"...disguised as men to gain entry into professional sporting events..."
Stone then. Or behead them.
Or both.
That was the first thing that came to mind...!!!!!
So ...
Wouldn't that "sin" be on the architect/builder? The toilet determines which way you face when using it.
Always left foot first.
Nah, Mad Mo didn’t have OCD or any mental illness. Nah.
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