What’s next?? Urinals in Women’s restrooms??
You know, I get it. I truly do. 100 years ago women couldn’t vote. As 21st century women, we’ve got it better than women have ever had it in history. And if your an American woman, you are the luckiest woman on the planet.
And these strides didn’t come with complacent attitudes or women not willing to stand up and ask for equality. Not just in politics, but in the corporate world… everywhere.
But at what point are some people taking it too far? I think I may have discovered the answer.
DAYTONA BEACH — Elizabeth Book, the stay-at-home mom with a rose tattoo, has won the right to bare her breasts in her ongoing fight to go shirtless anywhere men can.
On Saturday at noon, the 40-something “top-free” revolutionary plans to demonstrate her right to protest by dropping her top at the Peabody Auditorium next to three statues of women nude from the waist up.
“I will be as top-free as the statues,” Book said Monday in an e-mail to the nudists and naturists who have gathered to support her cause. “This is not over until Daytona is forced to recognize the unconstitutionality of their ordinances and statutes aimed at the American woman’s breasts.”
For many years the nudist/naturalist sections of beaches in Brevard county have come under fire and it’s been a tug-of-war between the officials and the beachgoers. This is definitely taking it to the next step.
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It’s not my thing. I guess if you’re going to argue for toplessness, then men ought to be able to run around buck naked too?
I don’t believe she has found many female supporters (at least none willing to be topless with her). But hey, let her have fun.
Well her argument is that men can go around topless so why shouldn’t women be able to, especially in the Florida heat as the breasts are not sexual organs. I know in part or all of Canada, this is the case - it’s perfectly legal for women to be topless in public - but few take “advantage” of the freedom.
Believe it or not, you may not be far off with the title of your post… From what I understand women in Australia don’t find it odd at all to pee standing up. And with glorious inventions like the P-Mate (seriously… p-mate.com) feminist extremists like Ms. Book will continue to concoct increasingly avant-garde ways of asserting their “equality” with men. I put equality in quotes, because I think what she has done is mistake equality with sameness, and I don’t think anyone would argue that women are the “same” as men.
Focusing specifically on the topless-in-public argument, I think the idea works in concept, but fails in reality. Steve said that the breasts are not sexual organs, but I beg to differ. Regardless of the biological purpose for breasts, in American culture, they most certainly are sexual and private. As long as we are required to wear shorts to cover our sexual/private areas down south, I think it is reasonable to ask the same of women and their breasts, at least in the public domain. Book’s argument fails to get at the purpose behind the law, which is not to exclude women from the freedom to avoid tan lines, but to exclude private parts from public spaces.