Posted on 04/04/2010 8:47:59 AM PDT by 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.
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“...and a titter ran through the crowd.”
...and the coffee shot out my nose!
I wonder why they picked “longfellow” square to start this march?
I would so heckle that. “Put it on! Put it on!”
Don’t show it if you don’t want people to look at it.
One thing for sure none of them will ever make $12 bucks the hard way.
Gross, nasty, skanky, please put your clothes back on.
They need the sunlight.
Some women really should consider a sex change.
The most unattractive people I have ever seen that openly flaunt themselves are for the most part the angry leftist democratic frustrated lesbians with reversed hormonal swings.
It must be a new species emerging.
Blind, you would be. I lived in Madison, Wisconsin for a number of years and on one occasion I was driving across town with my parents in the car, and we came across a traffic jam of sorts at the point where we were to cross State Street (the ~2 mile stretch between campus and the State Capitol - a favorite route for protest marches). As we waited, we started to see a motley assortment of protesters with placards wandering up the street toward the Capitol, predominantly women in tie dyed clothing (this was in the 1990’s), then a group of women drummers, and then a bunch of fat, slovenly women who were topless, arms in the air, making fists and exposing copious underarm hair. I’m not entirely sure what the celebration was about (”Keep your laws off our bodies!” would be a good guess), but this was typical of Madison. And I suspect Berkeley, Ann Arbor and several other places which house a disproportionate concentration of loonies. While you may have thought that it was impossible to make a woman’s breasts uninteresting, you would have been disabused of that notion witnessing this event. Ugh!
Based on what we CAN see tells me I don’t want to see what I can’t see...this should further cement the appreciation Southern men should have for Southern ladies...this is what New England men have to look at; day in, day out...shudder.
Yeah, me too. It is bad, I guess to speak of the dead this way, but TK should have kept his shirt on and added a bra.
Seems the reaction wasn’t her cup of milk.
It was a complete non-event, despite the high hopes of the male population in the area. I asked my wife if she was “in” with the protest. She couldn’t quite explain what the beef was about!
Remember, Ron drinks - heavily.
Titty Kitty?
In a related story; restaurant business last night dropped 57% from Saturday averages over the past year. Strangely enough; liquor sales at local bars spiked 228%.
Ever notice that most women who take their clothes off in public are the ones who look better with their clothes on?
The cat always gets in the way...
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