Approximately two dozen women marched topless in Maine on Friday, stopping traffic and drawing curiosity and interest from crowds of onlookers. In the state of Maine, it is already legal for women to appear topless in public, but the protest sought to make the sight more socially acceptable. The Associated Press reports:
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Topless Women March in Maine
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Freedom?
The United States is such an Oxymoron in some ways.
We claim to be the "Land of the Free," but we really mean, "FREE as long as it does not offend anyone."
A woman 's breast is NOT genitalia. Woman should be free, as men are to wear no top. Many less FREE countries have less morale concerns with what is disturbingly referred to in the US as a sexual visualization.
One persons morality is another persons impediment to freedom .
Let freedom mean what it says, even if you don't like it.
- Dannytheman May 2, 2010 8:38AM
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You forget
That one can have freedom as long as it does not interfere with the freedoms of others. People have the right to walk down the street with their children and not be subjected to naked women . It's called public decency.
Being "free" does not mean the freedom to do whatever you choose despite how the community feels about it. Local communties are allowed to set their own standards as to what public decency is. You cannot expect highly religious communities to allow women to walk down the street naked, can you? Your definition of morality is not the same as theirs, and you don't determine what the standards in their community should be.
- kong99
May 2, 2010 1:24PM
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not naked.
topless. tits, while awesome, are not genitalia. that's all there is to it. i mean, hell, i can wear my atheism t-shirt in south Texas, and believe me, that offends EVERYONE. but you know what? freedom of speech . you prove to me that a person seeing some knockers will be truly inconvenienced, and i will back off.
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Better Yet
...prove how this makes any point about equality let alone makes that point without having people talk about boobs...?
- J-Jammer May 2, 2010 5:15PM
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Thank you.
I don't even have to reply to him now, lol.
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Welcome.
If I saw this march I'd talk about the boobs. And when I text my brothers I'd say I saw boobs. I wouldn't even comment on why they were doing it because guess what...it wouldn't matter.
- J-Jammer May 3, 2010 12:28AM
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Public Safety
I would consider myself 'inconvenienced' if I died in a car crash caused by another driver paying more attention to the breasts on the sidewalk than what's going on around him. I don't care if you're naked in, say, a park or your back yard, but running around naked just anywhere is dangerous.
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No doubt
People cause large crashes simply by staring at a small fender bender on the shoulder of the road. I couldn't imagine what accidents would be caused by naked women that are much more interesting than fender benders.
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I never forget
How do women 's breast "interfere"? No one said naked. A man can walk down the street or cut his grass with out a shirt on. A woman can not? Public decency from what, a breast? A device designed to feed a human baby ? You have sexual trauma issues.
I have seen man boobs that offend me, but he has a legal right to not wear a shirt. No gender based inequality exist in public decency.
Woman have equal protection under the law . They may not have all the same jobs as men, but they could. So far in this thread I have seen people who have sexual hangups and other who are just plain male chauvinist pigs.
It is my hope that this leads to topless beaches and less sexual empowerment of the breast. Woman have a tough enough job being woman, why do we want to put more pressure on them then they already have?
- Dannytheman May 3, 2010 8:04AM
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What the draw....
...are perverts wanting pictures of free flashing that they'd normally have to wait for Mardi Gras or a strip club.
How many of these women want to be a deep sea fisherman? How many of these women do anything remotely dangerous in equal numbers as men? How many women teams on Amazing Race ever won the entire thing? ZERO.
How many women have a penis? How many men can give birth? How many men have periods? How many women have wet dreams?
Equality doesn't exist.
Treating people fairly does.
And showing your boobs doesn't do anything but make lesbians wet and men hard.
Also it totally distracts from the point they cannot make without taking off their shirt. And do they go to work in protest like this? no. They are fakers.
- J-Jammer May 2, 2010 5:13PM
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Seems silly
This stunt seems silly given that women are allowed to go topless in ME now.
I think that maybe these folks were just exhibitionists.
- politicalair June 1, 2010 9:08PM
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