Posted on 04/04/2010 12:18:31 PM PDT by Zakeet
About two dozen women took a walk down Congress Street topless Saturday, attracting a large crowd as they tried to preach that partial female nudity is not worthy of attracting a crowd.
The point of the march was that a topless woman out in public should attract no more attention than a man walking around without a shirt on, said Ty MacDowell, 20, of Westbrook, who organized Saturday's event and promoted it on Facebook.
But as the event got under way in Longfellow Square, the marchers were soon outnumbered by scores of onlookers -- mostly young men eagerly snapping away with cameras and cell phones.
MacDowell said she was surprised by the turnout of those interested less in challenging societal convention than in seeing partially undressed women.
"I'm amazed," she said, and "enraged (at) the fact that there's a wall of men watching."
MacDowell said she understood that for women, going topless in public "is not socially acceptable yet, and obviously there's going to be a reaction to something that breaks the norm."
But, she said, the picture-taking was particularly upsetting.
"A lot of people were taking pictures without even asking," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.com ...
You mean the same way the news media asked permission when they took photos of the caskets returning from Viet Nam? HA!
Nope, if they wanna walk around nekkid, I gits to look, thems the rulz!
Portland Maine is about a bohemian as you can get. They don’t call them Maniacs for nothing.
What does that woman on the right use to dye her hair? Red Food Dye?
Why is only the hags that do this?
Boys, don’t make me tell JimRob on all of you! :-o
< quickly averts eyes >
I’m surprised they didn’t invite Guo Feng who has real moobs to help support their cause!
http://news.oneindia.in/2010/03/27/meetthe-fed-up-chinese-farmer-who-has-worlds-biggestm.html
From Rush's Undeniable Truths of Life, no. 24:
Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.
Yeah, I love it when they say, “We aren’t trying to draw attention to OURSELVES, we want to draw attention to < insert dumb issue of the day >”—puleeeeze. This attention seeking behavior has NOTHING to do with wanting justice for whatever issues they proclaim. They’re just attention prostitutes with no shame, that’s all there is to it!
I didn't click the link, I'm sure you'll understand ... but the visual I'm getting, how do they march without tripping on themselves?? ;)
When they unhooked their bras all that came to mind was “pancake batter.”
About a foot and a half. If they try to run, they get black eyes.
If you get my drift. You know that song, “Pants on the ground”?
Somethin’ like that, only not pants.< shudders >
In polite company that is called “muffin top”.
Hair seems a bit short too......hmmmmm.
Sidecars!
I think those young ladies ought to come over here from Sweden and try the same experiment. For social study purposes only, of course. I will sacrifice some time to participate as an acute observer.
I wonder what the Portly Portland gals would think of it? I bet they’d suddenly change their attitudes about women exposing themselves...when all the cameras turn away from them!
I think it is kinda fun to watch Dykes make fools of themselves.
Same principle, I guess, about which an old girlfriend commented on about 30 years ago or so (in specific regard to a Shriners parade, if I recall):
How come most of the people that walk abound like that (nearly naked) are the ones that *SHOULDN’T?”.
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