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Topless Rights Movement Sees Women's Equality on Horizon [If Men Can Go Topless, Why Can't Women?]
US News and World Report ^ | 08/26/2015 | By Steven Nelson

Posted on 08/26/2015 4:15:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Naturalists, feminists and members of an atheistic UFO religion believe it’s only a matter of time until they win women across the country the right to go topless on public beaches and other places where men are allowed to bare their chests.

Courtroom and town council fights are underway to expand topless rights, but supporters are wary of pushback in New York, where discomfort about painted topless women posing in Times Square for tips has led state and city officials to consider nipping at hard-won progress in the bastion of top-freedom.

The Big Apple hubbub inspired some rally-goers Sunday who participated in the annual nationwide protest called Go Topless Day, ahead of Wednesday’s Women’s Equality Day, which marks the anniversary of females gaining the right to vote in the U.S.

“In the 1920s, it was indecent to show your legs. [If the women] had painted their legs in Times Square and men were taking pictures with them, there’d be the same controversy!” says GoTopless President Nadine Gary, whose group organized the Sunday demonstrations.

“If the chest of a man is decent, the chest of a woman has to be decent, too,” she says. “It’s a matter of equality.”

New York's state court system for decades has allowed women to go topless in public and other states allow it as well through omission or court ruling. In states like Illinois and California that don't ban bare breasts, however, some localities do.

A GoTopless activist currently is fighting in federal court against Chicago’s topless ban, arguing it's a constitutional right for women, and the group supports local council efforts to allow toplessness in Venice Beach, California.

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: topless; womensequality
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To: SeekAndFind

Why not indeed?

My former wife, Morgan Fairchild, was always fretting over the possibilities of going topless in public....


41 posted on 08/26/2015 4:41:57 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: SandRat

= :^)


42 posted on 08/26/2015 4:42:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d tell these women to get themselves a pistol, hold it three inches below their left breast and pull the trigger. Only they’d probably end up blowing their kneecaps off.


43 posted on 08/26/2015 4:49:50 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fight on sisters.


44 posted on 08/26/2015 4:49:53 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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To: Tax-chick
Amen!
45 posted on 08/26/2015 4:56:37 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: SeekAndFind

Go into a Walmart.

Imagine the women there topless.


46 posted on 08/26/2015 4:57:11 PM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: SeekAndFind

I could have gone all day without seeing that. And it would have been a happy day.


47 posted on 08/26/2015 4:57:22 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: SeekAndFind

It would take away the pleasure of seeing a boob every now and then.


48 posted on 08/26/2015 4:57:59 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Since you're so much smarter than me, don't waste your time insulting me. I won't understand it.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

Remember this from the 60’s.


49 posted on 08/26/2015 5:02:38 PM PDT by rstrahan
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To: SeekAndFind

To answer the question posed in the title of the article: women shouldn’t go topless because it’s called indecent exposure. As if the low necklines and high hemlines aren’t indecent enough. Good grief.


50 posted on 08/26/2015 5:03:10 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: SeekAndFind

51 posted on 08/26/2015 5:05:37 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: SeekAndFind; DoughtyOne
I am very much tempted to post the real topless march on Times Square, I’m just not sure if the mods will allow me to.

Go ahead and post them.

We can start a pool here on how many seconds they are up before a mod deletes them. I choose 67 seconds.

A second pool on how long it takes for you to get banned. I want 2.4 minutes.

But think on the positive side. Those of us remaining would be talking about freeper 'SeekAndFind' for years.

52 posted on 08/26/2015 5:06:24 PM PDT by ASA Vet (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: SeekAndFind

Please don’t. I just had dinner and I want to keep it down. Thank you.

PS: Thanks for posting this article. After the events of today, a little levity is greatly appreciated.


53 posted on 08/26/2015 5:07:35 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: Tax-chick

My neighbor is a mountain biker and hardcore Crossfit enthusiast. He looks like the cover of Men’s Health and never wears a shirt. And I am just fine with that.


54 posted on 08/26/2015 5:10:38 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Then they’ll have to make a set of new ‘sex laws’. Like hate crime laws. The’ll have to study the crime and accused to see if they hate breasts, or perhaps an add-on to rape charges. OOhhhh, raping while she was topless. More serious then just the original crime.


55 posted on 08/26/2015 5:10:56 PM PDT by Fhios (Simplicity is often mistaken for genius.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The next movement for black yuts: “Hands down, pants up”!

Less crime, less illegitimate kids, less problems.

Respect begins with respecting yourself, not some dumbassed gangbanger, drug-pusher or rapper who promotes both.


56 posted on 08/26/2015 5:16:20 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess they haven’t considered the side affect related to Obama’s inrush of Muslim men.


57 posted on 08/26/2015 5:19:06 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Impala64ssa

I needed a good laugh today Impala64ssa- thank you for that hilarious picture to the “mammogram machine”.


58 posted on 08/26/2015 5:21:47 PM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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To: Cboldt

Love Dalrymple-—the prison psychologist. He recognizes the collapse of civil society by the destruction of the Natural Family— by these Marxists who want to reduce man to godless animals and eliminate all biological connections so children remain feral-—like dogs——all naked-—rutting in the streets like in the novel, Brave New World.


59 posted on 08/26/2015 5:25:29 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: ponygirl

No accounting for tastes. I’m sure I’d like him in a nice suit.


60 posted on 08/26/2015 5:33:21 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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