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Protest To Aim At Equal Topless Rights
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| 1:07 pm EST March 2, 2004
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Posted on 03/02/2004 10:28:00 AM PST by Hodar
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- There's a topless protest being planned this weekend in Daytona Beach, at the end of Bike Week.
Liz Book of Ormond Beach is among the organizers. She hopes to lead a thousand "top-free" women and men along a half-mile of Main Street from the pier to the bridge. The goal is to add Daytona Beach to the small but growing list of places that allow women to show their breasts openly, just like men.
Even if only two people join her protest, she plans to still go through with it. City officials and police are mostly taking a wait-and-see approach, in part because the city's ordinance allows nudity when it is clothed in political protest.
Book's husband, Robert Van Winkle, bailed her out in 1998 when she was arrested for baring her breasts inside the Full Moon Saloon. A group of women in Brevard County, known as the "Topfree Ten" have filed a federal lawsuit seeking the right to go shirtless in non-sexual contexts wherever men do, during such outside activities as beachgoing or gardening.
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I really don't see what the big deal is. I'm a guy, and I have larger boobs than some women. I'm not especially attractive, yet I seldom go shirtless because I don't want to make the spectators throw up. However, I see no reason why a woman who does exactly the same thing I do; not only has people gawk at her, but also faces fines and possible imprisionment.
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posted on
03/02/2004 10:28:00 AM PST
by
Hodar
To: Hodar
Wait until the Taliban finds out...
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posted on
03/02/2004 10:29:32 AM PST
by
observer5
To: Hodar
The problem is, the women who lead these protests tend to be the very ones that no one wants to actually have to see topless.
To: Hodar
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posted on
03/02/2004 10:30:16 AM PST
by
Constitution Day
("The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary.")
To: Hodar
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posted on
03/02/2004 10:31:13 AM PST
by
End Times Sentinel
(I'm going to warn my kids about the dangers of excessive drinking through example.)
To: admin
Please remove, someone beat me; thus this post is a duplicate.
Thanks
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posted on
03/02/2004 10:31:21 AM PST
by
Hodar
(With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: Hodar
Doing a search for a webcam. lol
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posted on
03/02/2004 10:31:37 AM PST
by
Lokibob
(All typos and spelling errors are mine and copyrighted!!!!)
To: Constitution Day
yeah, they posted about 30 seconds before me....
Working on getting this one yanked.
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posted on
03/02/2004 10:32:18 AM PST
by
Hodar
(With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: Hodar
One is hard pressed to explain to kids why women's boobs are okay in National Geographic but it corrupts their childhood innocence if they see a centerfold's naked breasts in Playboy.
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posted on
03/02/2004 10:34:41 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Hodar
I bet the women who are pushing for this are just NASTY.
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posted on
03/02/2004 10:36:10 AM PST
by
Constitution Day
("The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary.")
To: Hodar
City officials and police are mostly taking a wait-and-see approach
I'll bet they are.
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posted on
03/02/2004 10:37:47 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(American by birth, Proud by choice.)
To: goldstategop
I live in Austin, TX. It's a really great place, IMHO. Anyway, we have a natural spring-fed swimming hole called Barton Springs in the center of town, in Zilker Park. The pool is very clean, deep and more than a tad bit nippy.
It's not unusual to see topless co-eds swimming and sunning there. I have had visitors who commented how the park is nice, clean, nicely maintained; yet would not believe that young and old alike sun and swim topless.
Having been there a few times, you may notice a young woman getting out of the water, or heading down to the pool without her top on. And you know what? After about 15 seconds of getting your eyes full; you simply don't care. It's not a big deal.
Why can a 500 lb hairy man may go around without a shirt in the 100+ degree days without a comment, but should a woman dare do anything without a shirt; she is not only subject to crude remarks, she may also be arrested? To me, this makes very little sense.
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posted on
03/02/2004 10:40:51 AM PST
by
Hodar
(With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: Hodar
That's impressive honesty Hodar. Don't let others opinions deprive you of a day at the beach.
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posted on
03/02/2004 10:42:31 AM PST
by
Callahan
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