Topless women protesters 'surprised, upset' as men show up with cameras

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Topless women protesters 'surprised, upset' as men show up with cameras | News.com.au

DOZENS of women have walked topless through downtown Portland, in the US state of Maine, in order to bring attention to what they claim is a double standard when it comes to the public display of upper torsos.

Event organiser, Ty MacDowell, told myFOXmaine.com she set up Saturday's event - with a police escort - because she could.

Maine's nudity laws only apply to exposed genitals.

Ms MacDowell said she was surprised by the number of men who showed up with cameras.

"I'm really upset by the men... all the men that are here, just like watching it like it's a parade," she said.

"We should be able to walk down the street and not have this many men taking pictures of us," a participant shouted.

Some bystanders said they were upset at the spectacle on a sunny weekend in the historic city centre, saying children were present.

The walk went off without any problems and organisers said they expect to plan similar events in the future.

Well geez, they didn't want men showing up with cameras, acting like it was a parade?

When you get a group of people to march down a street doing something not normally seen everyday, and it's a bunch of women marching down the street showing off their boobs..... and so much attention was brought to them doing this which was the whole point in doing this in the first place.... exactly wtf did they expect would happen?

"We should be able to walk down the street and not have this many men taking pictures of us,"

Sure fine.... do it then.... individually.... when you get a group of women together to make a spectacle over something, be that just attention to yourselves or attention to a cause, by all walking as a group topless..... you invite all sorts of attention.

And the same thing would happen if it was a bunch of guys walking down a street in a group, exposing their chests and/or other body parts..... there'd be all kinds of women there taking pictures and hoot'n & whistling like it was a Chip'n'Dale Marathon.

"I'm really upset by the men.... all the men that are here, just like watching it like it's a parade,"

Well yeah.... if you have a police escort leading the way, getting everybody's attention.... it'd sure look like a parade.

And really, there's not much difference between a marching protest and a parade, except maybe one group is more angry over the other.

It's the same thing I see towards the Gay Pride Parades..... they're parades, but they're also a form of protest..... with a bit of a catch 22.

Many homosexuals want to be treated equally and not given more attention over the next person.... that they're no different.

Ok..... then why have huge parades to shove your homosexuality and being different in everybody's face? I don't shove my hetro in everybody's face or the lifestyles I chose.

Treat it normally like everything else, and everybody else might treat them normally too.

Same thing for this..... if you want to change this "double standard" towards public nudity between men and women, then go out and live your life normally doing what you believe.... shop, walk, hop on the bus topless if you want.

But getting a group of people together to all do the exact same thing, whether you call it a parade or protest, with police escort on top of that.... all you're doing is saying "HEY LOOK AT US!" ~ So don't complain when some of the looks you get are looks you don't like.
 

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lmao That's funny. What the hell did they expect? Especially in the USA. Around here, no-one pays much attention except the teenaged boys, but in the USA they are intensely anal about nudity, which is the heart of the problem, I think. But yet, guys will be guys. Try googling "nipple slip" and there are tons of hits on tons of sites with tons of paparazzi pics of celebs with boobie oopsies. lol
 

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In the city of Toronto women are allowed to go around topless but no woman has dared to take off their top except on Centre Island at the nude beach or as the locals call it the gay beach
 

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In the city of Toronto women are allowed to go around topless but no woman has dared to take off their top except on Centre Island at the nude beach or as the locals call it the gay beach
Well, Torontoites are weird anyway. lol ;)
 

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In the city of Toronto women are allowed to go around topless but no woman has dared to take off their top except on Centre Island at the nude beach or as the locals call it the gay beach
You must 'hang out' in the wrong places...
 

Ron in Regina

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Something similar happened in Regina this Winter, with many men showing
up with camera's to take pictures of two mildly insane "PETA" women who
where protesting "Fur" or something along those lines.

I think many of the Folks with cameras (it was about -40c or so...) where there
to take pictures to prove the story that someone really is that dumb....

They where going to go nude (or so they said on the news in advance), but in
the end (Winter in Regina...), some small measure of sense prevailed.





(The above Pic's came out'a the "Leader Post" which is our local newspaper...)
 

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In the city of Toronto women are allowed to go around topless but no woman has dared to take off their top except on Centre Island at the nude beach or as the locals call it the gay beach

Not only Toronto, but it is legal in all of Ontario for women to go bare breasted. It is also legal in the state of New York.

I personally support a woman’s right to go bare breasted. If a man can go bare breasted, woman should be able to do as well. In most African tribes, women do bare breasted, it doesn’t bother anybody.

So I support that right for women. However, if some perverts do show up with cameras, that is their right as well. When a woman goes into public with bare breasts, she has no right to complain if somebody takes pictures.
 

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If more women went around bare breasts (whether permitting) more often, the fetish would soon wear off and there would be a lot less breast cancer caused by bras.
 

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If more women went around bare breasts (whether permitting) more often, the fetish would soon wear off and there would be a lot less breast cancer caused by bras.

Now all you have to do is convince women of this.....

In this cuture, few women are interested in walking around in public bare-breasted......those that do, should.

But they should not try to dictate to men what they do, or do not, find sexually attractive.......
 
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If more women went around bare breasts (whether permitting) more often, the fetish would soon wear off and there would be a lot less breast cancer caused by bras.


You speak the truth, Ciffy. I have been to Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark). On a hot day, it is not unusual to see a bare breasted woman walking down the street with her little boy or little girl. It does not evoke any comment, any reaction; people simply walk past as if she was fully dressed.

I do not belong to that culture. However, in that atmosphere (where nobody thought it a big deal), I didn’t see a woman with bare breasts, I simply saw a mother walking down the street with her child.

I suspect the same thing may happen here. If women start going bare breasted in summer, sure in the beginning, there may be dirty old men with cameras, it may evoke comment, reaction etc. But eventually people will probably get used to it.

There is also another point to consider. I have seen the bare breasts of some of these women, whether they are protesting environment, ecology, or anything else. With most of these women, their breasts are not really much to look at, they are nothing like the breasts one sees on porn actresses, or one sees on the porn sites on the internet. Their breasts are far form perfect. Porn actresses are selected for their gorgeous breasts, which are more often than not augmented with silicone. But the average breast does not look anywhere near as good.


I don’t see why anybody would want to take picture of these beasts, when pictures of much better looking breasts could be had for free on the internet. Those men who want to take pictures of such imperfect breasts must be really sad, pathetic lot. But if women want to go bare breasted, they must be able to withstand such scrutiny.
 

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In and around the lower mainland we have a well known woman that has turned off many a man off breasts.. I remember being at "Folk Fest" and running into her ( literally ) by accident.. 8O

This woman has cause car accidents or so they claim on YouTube.. :lol:


YouTube - DV-5-3 AUG 14 1997 MAPLE RIDGE MVA TOPLESS BIKE RIDER CAUSED


Linda Meyer: test case for topfreedom for British Columbia. On June 8, 2000, she won in court against Maple Ridge, BC. She had been arrested at the District of Maple Ridge's indoor public swimming pool. That was after she had provoked arrests for many years, and had gone to jail, in order to win in court and thereby stop official harassment for her topfree public activities.

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