Women March Topless in Portland Without Incident (Upset That Men Looked At Them)

Maine Sunday Telegram ^ | 4/3/2010 | Maine Sunday Telegram

[Dallas59]

PORTLAND – About two dozen women marched topless from Longfellow Square to Tommy's Park this afternoon in an effort to erase what they see as a double standard on male and female nudity. click image to enlarge

A group of women and men who had shed their tops march down a Congress Street sidewalk from Longfellow Square to Tommy's Park. They were promoting the freedom of women to be topless in public. The group attracted many amateur and professional photographers.

The women, preceded and followed by several hundred boisterous and mostly male onlookers, many of them carrying cameras, stayed on the sidewalk because they hadn't obtained a demonstration permit to walk in the street. About a thousand people gathered as the march passed through Monument Square, a mix of demonstrators, supporters, onlookers and those just out enjoying a warm and sunny early-spring day.

After the marchers reached Tommy's Park in the Old Port, some turned around and walked back to Longfellow Square, but most stayed and mingled in the park. Some happily posed for pictures.

[John-Irish]

They all look rather butch to me.

[driftless2]

State Street, that great street. I used visit Madison and walk up and down State Street several times a year, but haven’t done much in recent years. Lib haven or not, State was always a lot of fun to visit on Saturday mornings. You never knew what the nutty libs were going to do.

[I Drive Too Fast]

There is ugly and there is FUGLY. These “women” are fugly.

[Vaduz]

Times are harder now.

[Mad Dawgg]

arrrgh “rick=rolled!!!!”

you will pay for your crime!!!!!

[Kenny Bunk]

This was actually a literary event.

The women were re-enacting Steven King's (a Maine Author) novel, "The Tommyknockers." Murphy's article made it clear they were marching from Longfellow Park to Tommy Park.

[SkyPilot]

The women, preceded and followed by several hundred boisterous and mostly male onlookers, many of them carrying cameras.....Ty McDowell, who organized the march, said she was "enraged" by the turnout of men attracted to the demonstration. The purpose, she said, was for society to have the same reaction to a woman walking around topless as it does to men without shirts on.

Feminist liberals think that by showing their naked hooters, they will get men to stop looking at their hooters?

That's about the same "logic" as health care being "free" for everyone while driving costs down.