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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And she won.
Gosh, that was a FUNNY thread!
Oh yes, we've had some classics!
That may be true but think of the profit potential for supplying canting materials and labor for her ski bindings.
There may have been another one, but this one was in Kitchener and she was a feminist. She chose to strut the streets of downtown Kitchener to make her point...points.
LOL! This broad is going about her lawsuit all wrong. She should be demanding that men wear a minimum of pasties on the beach!
That is a good one(17#)WOW!!!
I am a poor boy from Brooklyn, I have heard of ski bindings.
The other I never heard of and neither one of us will have her.
Depending on the size and age of the woman, I can see making topless sun bathing a capital crime. I've been to France, where even the grannies bare it all. I've been treated for retinal blindness since then, to no avail.
Depending on the size and age of the woman, I can see making topless sun bathing a capital crime. I've been to France, where even the grannies bare it all. I've been treated for retinal blindness since then, to no avail.
No, that is a great one.
I think it would be a "wonderful" thing for girls 18 to 25 years old to do this. They have to look as good/great as the one on 17#. But I would(I'm 19 5 days!!!) Like this alot!!! :)
hahahaha...
Those most likely to take advantage of the topless sunbathing are those who are least likely to look good doing it...
Actually, they are not. I remember the case of the "Rochester Topfree Seven". It took place when I lived in the area.
The Rochester (NY) Topfree Seven were acquitted in 1992, after six years. For being topfree, they had been accused of violating NY state Penal Law 245.01, the "Exposure of a Person" law. We quote it in part here:
"A person is guilty of exposure if he appears in a public place in such a manner that the private or intimate parts of his body are unclothed or exposed. For purposes of this section, the private parts or intimate parts of a female person shall include that portion of the breast which is below the areola. This section shall not apply to breast feeding of infants or to any person entertaining or performing in a play, exhibition, show or entertainment."
The acquittal of the Topfree Seven resulted in the striking down of this law as it applies to women's breasts.
Women can now go topless on NY state beaches.
These women used to have an annual "Topfree" picnic. Some them had their families with them. There were actually eight women, but one had a nursing child with her, so she was dropped from the case.
In previous years, law enforcement people had ignored them. But one year, they had the picnic at the wrong park, in a different juristiction. I think it was city LE ignored them and county LE arrested them, but I am not sure.
Youwanted topless picture, you've got topless picture!
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