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Battle over bare-breasted women brews at one of Maryland’s busiest beaches
Washington Post ^ | June 9, 2017 | Lynh Bui and Ann E. Marimow

Posted on 06/09/2017 8:28:51 AM PDT by C19fan

A battle over bare-breasted women at one of Maryland’s most popular vacation spots is heating up as summer hits without a clear answer on whether women are free to be free at the beach.

With the heat approaching, authorities in Ocean City issued a memo this week directing the beach patrol not to confront bare-chested women or ask them to cover up regardless of complaints. The policy is to stand until the Maryland Attorney General’s Office opines on state indecent exposure laws after a local beachgoer declared that if men can go sans tops, then women can, too.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Miscellaneous; Society; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: feminsim; maryland; naked; oceancity; oceancitymd; topless
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To: C19fan
I predict this initiative will be a bust.



61 posted on 06/09/2017 11:15:05 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: C19fan

They really need to nip this in the bud....


62 posted on 06/09/2017 11:17:07 AM PDT by Eepsy
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To: C19fan
Battle over bare-breasted women brews at one of Maryland’s busiest beaches

How?
Are they refusing to cooperate?

63 posted on 06/09/2017 11:33:09 AM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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To: dsrtsage
always cringeworthy in reality...

I think naked women are beautiful in general and cringe when other men take it upon themselves to "yay or nay," "guilty or not-guilty" people who just want to have fun at the beach.


64 posted on 06/09/2017 11:36:51 AM PDT by golux
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To: MrEdd

That song would be better if Benny Hill sang it


65 posted on 06/09/2017 11:37:00 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
"Frightened” by naked bodies? More likely the objectors don’t want to be aroused by a few and repulsed by the many'

Hmmmm. Frankly the aroused part doesn't sound frightening to me. And, come to think about it I don't get the repulsed part either. Wouldn't happen to me. I'm not one to demand perfection. But maybe my Flower Child infection hasn't completely dissipated.😎

66 posted on 06/09/2017 11:50:45 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: C19fan

With apologies to Henny Youngman:
I went to the doctor
He told me to take off my clothes and stand by the window
I asked what he thought was wrong with me
He said “nothing - I don’t like my neighbor”.


67 posted on 06/09/2017 11:51:01 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: InterceptPoint

I personally would not take my kids to a beach where the females are hanging out and the males are hardening up.


68 posted on 06/09/2017 12:19:06 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you...")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The guy thing would be a put off me as well. As for the ladies ...


69 posted on 06/09/2017 12:24:59 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: AndyTheBear

[[”A girl in the Pacific islands wearing hardly any clothes and a Victorian lady completely covered in clothes might both be equally `modest,’ proper, or decent, according to the standards of their own societies: and both, for all we could tell by their dress, might be equally chaste (or equally unchaste).” ]]

Yup Polynesian islands where SSD’s run rampant- Gauguin found this out the hard way- and who’s to say rape and molestations weren’t greater in those societies? In Africa- rape is a very common thing- and aids and SSD’s are prevalent- This isn’t to say they wouldn’t be with more modest dress- however- there is the possibility that immodest dress contributes to the degradation of society

I’ll stick with my feeling that modest dress and morality laws help not hurt society- Adam and Eve covered up for a reason when their eye’s were ‘opened’


70 posted on 06/09/2017 12:27:40 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Morgana

Or if Scott Bradlee made a jazz arrangement of it for Postmodern Jukebox.

Still, Stan Boreson was one of the early television pioneers and he was still around and making guest appearances on The Lawrence Welk Show when I was a kid.


71 posted on 06/09/2017 12:35:35 PM PDT by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: MrEdd

Don’t remember him, do remember The Lawrence Welk Show coming on as a child. Only the bubble machine though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmu1Kf-mjc4


72 posted on 06/09/2017 12:46:18 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: InterceptPoint

Because of human decency standards. Just because animals are naked and don’t care doesn’t mean humans should do the same.

It’s not “frightened”, btw.


73 posted on 06/09/2017 1:06:25 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Fightin Whitey

You did see the Baltimore part....?


74 posted on 06/09/2017 2:43:42 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: gundog

Ha I live in a cowboy town in the Rocky Mountains...I dunno nuffin about Baltimore but I think I get the ugly scary picture!


75 posted on 06/09/2017 5:12:19 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: C19fan
The policy is to stand until the Maryland Attorney General’s Office opines on state indecent exposure laws after a local beachgoer declared that if men can go sans tops, then women can, too.

Doesn't take much to expose the idiocy of Marylanders (spoken as a native.) Let's hope nobody complains male and female bathrooms are discrimination because those in power don't have enough intellect or character to answer the question.
76 posted on 06/09/2017 5:18:14 PM PDT by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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To: dsrtsage

South Beach is an exception to that rule


77 posted on 06/09/2017 5:30:45 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: golux

Well, I guess I will start having fun at the beach in a thong speedo. I’m sure nobody will judge or cringe about that.


78 posted on 06/09/2017 6:50:03 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Paladin2

A busy, busty beach is best.


79 posted on 06/09/2017 6:54:32 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Hack-proof tagline.)
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To: Redwood71

Lifeguards should issue tassels for the offenders.


80 posted on 06/09/2017 6:55:37 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Hack-proof tagline.)
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