Interesting choice. The first pic had both a good looking man and a good looking woman. Your pic has a not-so-good-looking man and a good looking woman.
Why do some bored individuals want men and women to be exactly the same so much? They arent.
If a woman would walk around topless, she would get harassed by loads of horny teenage dudes and adults. For that reason alone you should avoid it.
No. That's victim blaming. We should be penalizing the "loads of horny teenage dudes and adults" that think it is OK to harass.
I don't see what the big deal of anyone walking around topless is. Breasts are not sexual organs and the male breast isn't either. If people want to walk around topless then more power to them as it shows that they're confident in their bodies.
The problem comes in that rather than people saying, well if men can walk around topless so can women, all that'll happen is nobody willl be allowed to walk around topless. People are far too prude when it comes to our natural form. We treat the human body as it's some kind of magnificent thing and outside of the science behind it, it's not. Our ancestors decided to wear clothes to not die from the cold, but then that turned from the initial purpose to clothes being accesories, and from there we started to hide all the human body away, because it's too lewd to see some skin.
Womens breasts are only a big deal, because we've made them that way. We've spent the past like 1000 years telling people to cover up all their body or they're being immodest.
Except, in the vast majority of the US it is legal for both to be topless. And when laws banning topless women have been challenged, they've been overturned.
Society has changed the law already, and what you predict did not happen.
Women can do almost everything thing men can do and vice-versa, but that doesn't change the fact we are different and society treats us differently for a lot reasons. Some good, some bad, and others downright terrible and indeed sexist.
It might be unfair considering women have to cover up two, but a woman can't bear her breasts any more than a man can whip out his dongus. Most women consider their breasts private and part of their modesty. Most men don't care about being shirtless.
Should women be vilified for wanting to be topless? Absolutely not. But there is a time and a place, and as society we haven't accepted that to include general public areas. That might change, it might not, but it's not like there isn't a rationale behind it that makes sense.
A penis and a vagina are equivalent. Breasts not-so-much.
wait what is the conflict here? are women not allowed to be topless in the us?
I think not in many states. But even otherwise it is not socially accepted often.
Women are allowed to be topless in the vast majority of the US. It is a choice protected by law.
No, it's because they're sexual. Legs arouse plenty of men and women can show them without getting in trouble.
Many body parts can be sexualized. Boobs are not a sex organ though. That is simple biological fact.
When a woman goes topless and is jailed for doing so, who is the victim and how were they harmed? Is there any concrete evidence of that harm?
The only victim is the woman who was jailed. And if that happens in the US, there is a very good chance that she'll win a lawsuit against the city that arrested/jailed her.
My point is that you could have the same number of men who wants to walk around with their penises hanging without the same thing happening. Or hey, those who don't want to told they have to get a haircut or shave every time they leave their home. Or people who want to be fat without being fat-shamed. Or adults who want to have a strictly platonic relationship with children without being called paedophiles.
San Francisco banned total nudity for public health reasons. People didn't want to be sitting on seats in restaurants and other public places where someone else's bare ass and sack had been.
But she will. And that's why Facebook removed it.
And she shouldn't have to face harassment. Those who harass should be punished.
Real question. If it were legal for women to be topless, just like men, tomorrow, would anything really change? Would there be change a year from now? 5 years? A decade?
It's been legal in most of the US for awhile now. You see things like the topless book club in NYC and the topless bike rides in cities on the West Coast. You will also occasionally see someone topless during the summer months.
Most women choose not to be topless, which is perfectly legit and their choice.
It is legal most places. This thread is about the social acceptability of doing so.
I see your point, but I don't know of anywhere that men have to go topless. Most men enjoy being topless at places like the beach or swimming pool, but do they feel pressured to do so? Many men I see there still wear a T shirt or rashguard.
Outside of a beach, the only time I used to really go topless was when I lived in the Midwest and was doing yard work in the middle of summer. Wearing a sweaty shirt all day just made you feel sticky. Having the top off helped with the summer heat (though you needed to have sunblock on or you'd be extra crispy by the end of the day).
Really? It isn't "indecent exposure"?
Nope. Simple being topless is not indecent.
I had to tell off my niece for wanting to run around naked around the house all the time. I know there are girls that don't care if their boobies are showing. We tell women it isn't okay because, well, it isn't okay for like 99.99% of non-perverts. So they up and learn not to.
Non-perverts don't care one way or another if a woman is topless.
It is the perverts that are the ones that want to take the choice away.
