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Berlin to let everyone go topless at public swimming pools
The Associated Press ^ | March 9, 2023

Posted on 03/09/2023 12:10:13 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

BERLIN (AP) — Women in Berlin will soon be allowed to go topless at the city’s public swimming pools, like men, the Berlin state government said Thursday.

The new bathing rules allowing everyone to go swimming without covering their torsos followed a discrimination complaint by a woman who was not allowed to go topless in a swimming pool in the capital.

The woman, whose identity was not revealed, had turned to the senate’s ombudsperson’s office for equal treatment to demand that women, like men, can swim topless, the Berlin senate for justice, diversity and anti-discrimination said in a written statement.

In reaction to the complaint and the ombudsman’s involvement in the case, the Berliner Baederbetriebe, which runs the city’s public pools, decided to change its clothing rules, the statement said.

“The ombudsperson’s office very much welcomes the decision of the Baederbetriebe, because it establishes equal rights for all Berliners, whether male, female or non-binary, and because it also creates legal certainty for the staff at the Baederbetriebe,” said Doris Liebscher, the head of the ombudsperson’s office.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: berlin; frauleinboobies; toplessfraus
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To: ansel12

I disagree.

The muslims will come to those pools to see the topless women. They will abuse them. The state will not intervene with muslims as they would with germans.

(I’ve already read stories about this at public swimming pools in germany—that were not topless.


41 posted on 03/09/2023 12:48:42 PM PST by ckilmer (q)
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To: tet68

Wrong. Bikini bottoms are unisex in Euro land. They now don’t have to make the tops anymore.


42 posted on 03/09/2023 12:49:23 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Salman
One wonders how the Muslim population will react.
One wonders how the Muslim women will react!
43 posted on 03/09/2023 12:49:33 PM PST by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: bobrlbob

Stop going to poor people beaches.


44 posted on 03/09/2023 12:51:02 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Common FR! I know we live in bad times, but let's not be TOO cynical here! The glass is half FULL!!

IMG-20230309-134739

Ya!?

45 posted on 03/09/2023 12:52:29 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: Aria

Heh, when I was in the Navy back in the Seventies, we made a port of call in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Mallorca is a big European tourist destination, and the island is divided roughly into four parts...

The English go to one part, the Scandinavians go to another, the Germans to a different one, and I think the Spanish to the last one.

It was the first place I went to that had topless sunbathers, and as you can imagine a bunch of sailors from an American aircraft carrier thought that was just dandy!

Funny, years later I was looking at some pictures I had taken, and in the background there were two young women bathing topless, and some guy sitting next to them talking to them, and they were doing the classic “ignore this guy and maybe he will go away...” He did look intoxicated...:)

My wife and I went there on our honeymoon, and stayed in the Scandinavian section. We went down to the rocks near the hotel to lay in the sun, and I wasn’t wearing my glasses for some reason (and am blind as a bat without them)

As we approached, I realized almost all the women were topless...and me without my glasses! My wife? Well, when in Mallorca...

We did go back there for our 10th anniversary and stayed in a villa we rented. That was simply fantastic!


46 posted on 03/09/2023 12:56:34 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: HYPOCRACY

LOL, no greasy fat guys wearing grape-smugglers either!


47 posted on 03/09/2023 12:57:26 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This policy will be a mixed bag.
In fact, a lot of ‘em.
In pairs.


48 posted on 03/09/2023 12:57:46 PM PST by JustaTech (My mind is the weapon. Everything else is tools.)
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To: caww

That right there might explain climate change 🤮


49 posted on 03/09/2023 1:00:21 PM PST by jigsaw (God Bless Our Wonderful Troops. We love you.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Are you referring to banana hammocks? No banana hammocks!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eReYfISQ42M


50 posted on 03/09/2023 1:01:26 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: llevrok

She’s big in the bumdestag!

https://www.spiegel.de/international/uk-tabloid-attack-poolside-merkel-photos-anger-germany-a-411791.html


51 posted on 03/09/2023 1:03:14 PM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: griffin

Wait. Was that show always that funny? If so, I may have to watch.


52 posted on 03/09/2023 1:06:26 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: ckilmer

Tell me that in 10 years.


53 posted on 03/09/2023 1:07:17 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: JustaTech

Picture Helen Thomas at the topless pools.........


54 posted on 03/09/2023 1:10:08 PM PST by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tig ol bitties


55 posted on 03/09/2023 1:10:31 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is NOT going to help with a declining birth rate!


56 posted on 03/09/2023 1:11:28 PM PST by LizzieD
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To: tet68

Plenty of nudists already in the Tiergarten.


57 posted on 03/09/2023 1:11:29 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: HYPOCRACY

YES.

Although, that one right there is one of my favorite clips.

Binge watching in evenings with the wife right now, HULU.

What you see dangling outside the window is known as “The Todd”.


58 posted on 03/09/2023 1:11:39 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Know the enemy:

Doris Liebscher, Esq. is a lawyer with a focus on anti-discrimination law, feminist jurisprudence and racism and right. She is a member of the Humboldt Law Clinic fundamental and human rights at the Department of Public Law and Gender Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, partner of the Office of Legal Affairs and Science Berlin and board director of the Anti-Discrimination Office Saxony. She is the author of, among other things manual Legal Protection against Discrimination.


59 posted on 03/09/2023 1:12:30 PM PST by euram (allALL)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Some German women really should wear tops. Some German men, as well. Some Germans should wear burkas.


60 posted on 03/09/2023 1:14:02 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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