GAW,
I absolutely would have supported Rosa Parks. She was also protesting an unjust law – how is the law protecting people’s property from vandalism unjust?
My comparisons are fair, even if abhorrant. But do you like the Mohammed example better? We can’t ask for protection and freedom and then deny it to others. H&M’s sign was a lot less problematic than a swastika, but no one has the right to vandelize other people. Unless you think PETA is correct when they do it?
There is absolute right and wrong. However, I don’t think tznius is in ANY way (especially a sign posted high up, so high that they needed to stand on a vending machine to even reach it) the type of problem that these men were making it out to be.
I tested out walking looking down today – the only time I needed to look up was when my coworker called out to me as we passed in the subway and when I needed to cross city streets. Since these signs are high up, they are not in the line of sight of people, unless people are looking. We should be training men to walk looking down and then these signs wouldn’t be an issue. I didn’t see any advertisements while doing this experiment and I walked on a few city blocks and went into the subway. I also have no idea what people were wearing.
Its kind of like when people throw dirty diapers. Its hard to take their cause seriously. Can you imagine R’ Elyashiv doing this? I doubt it.