Posted on 01/22/2005 5:16:40 PM PST by KMC1
IS THIS THE MEASURE OF EQUALITY?: As it happens, a Ventura California female lawyer is attempting to make the case that the state is discriminating against women.
How so? Because topless sunbathing by women is a criminal misdemeanor - for men it is not.
Additionally Liana Johnsson is arguing against the inclusion of the "topless misdemeanor" in the list of offenses that gets one included on the Megan's List for sex offenders.
In an Orange County case last month a State Appeals Court ruled that anyone convicted of misdemeanor indecent exposure must be added to the list. Orange County public defenders are objecting because of the amount of resources it would require to track every woman who did in fact commit the misdemeanor.
Johnsson has lobbied over 400 members of the bar association at the October gathering trying to spread the word. To underscore her point she showed a two minute video of large breasted men.
The Governor of California - Arnold Schwarzenegger took the all-too-courageous position of declining any comment on the possibility of a state wide legal standard being changed. State law enforcement officials confirmed that there is already a series of beaches where some topless bathing is already "allowed" even though laws forbid it.
Let me say plainly that I think it would be irresponsible for women who get caught sunning with their ties untied to be equated with people in society who molest or rape vulnerable women and children. Adding the sunbathers to "Megan's List" in my opinion is a mistake. However - Johnsson is making a dreadful mistake - especially to her own cause.
It is painfully obvious to me that Ms. Johnsson has fully accepted and in fact become the advocate of the fullest feminist expression. Men and Women are not equal - they are the same.
Feminists don't desire to be treated equally , they wish to be completely interchangable. For women like Ms. Johnsson her greatest wish is not so much to be celebrated as a woman - so much as it is the allowance of all who she comes into contact with to be allowed to lure at her as though she is a sexual object.
And here you find feminism's great lie...in the name of being the same as man - allow women to be reduced to an object of sexual curiousity.
The question is - will Ms. Johnsson ever realize that she is in fact devaluing women instead of celebrating them?
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Hope you didn't take offense...I was just trying to joke about your poor syntax. As a former editor, things like missing commas jump out at me and conjure up some funny images. Sorry if you took offense.
Is your first language German? I noted that you capitalized nouns.
When I lived in Europe I saw a lot of nudity, after a while it was no big deal. I started changing into my swimsuit by the poolside like everybody else. I wish the US would mature in this area.
A site that criticizes this public defender:
http://www.geocities.com/theykilledrichard/
and you just might be right
Why don't you tell me WHICH are invalidated: Paul solved a marketing problem for Christianty by tossing circumcision overboard. But the temporal leaders of churches have a good deal less standing to pick and choose whether nakedness or pork are more sinful.
No I was not a very good typist !!! No offense taken here, I enjoyed you post! I'll try to be more careful with the CAPS!!
Ten to one it wasn't in January.
If it was, she could be arrested for maintaining an attractive nuisance: YOU COULD PUT SOMEONE'S EYE OUT!
LOL! No, lovely summer day. That was her point...men could be comfortable in the heat with no shirt and she wanted the same "right".
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