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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Trust me when I say this: none of the right-wing media/politicians, will understand that they've made any points on behalf of the protestors by blurring the "men's" nipples.

Also, saying men can go around topless but not women, is sexist. Any such law should be removed. We should all be equal in the eyes of the law. With that said: that shouldn't imply that women should go around topless. It should just be legally allowed. I'm a guy, but I don't think I need to explain to anyone the potential complications from going around topless as a woman... Whether trans or not.

The whole situation is dumb. Society needs to do better. We're all people. Let's keep that in mind and treat everyone the same, based on the fact that they are a human person in society. No legal separation of sex, gender, race, religion, or anything else. If you are a human person, you should have the same rights and freedoms as every other human person.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 minutes ago

I'm a guy, but I don't think I need to explain to anyone the potential complications from going around topless as a woman... Whether trans or not.

It's normal and fairly mundane for men to go topless in virtually all societies, however, there are a good number of cultures where it is also normal for women to be topless. If it is normal and mundane for women to be topless, then it becomes a non-issue eventually. It's only racy because we're trained in our culture to find it racy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Is it illegal for women to be topless?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. That seems sexist.

Free the nipple.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago

Genuine question, how is it sexist? Is their no acknowledgment of biological differences between men and women as a general rule (trans issues being more of an exception to the rule)? We acknowledge differences in general in regards to sports, bathrooms, fitting rooms, the way clothes are made, people’s consumption of pornography, magazines and media. Why on this point are we ignoring that all of those things ls are real and happen and pretending there’s no difference?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Katy Montgomerie a really good interview with one of the women at the protest: https://youtu.be/wbA0q0eqYnM

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Took me a while to even notice they are censored, and not just weird looking

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I cannot imagine being a cop in this country the laws are just totally arbitrary and you'd have to enforce them even though they make zero sense.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It gets even mader. If you take one step over the border into England, being topless suddenly becomes legal regardless of gender or birth sex.

however it is not an offence for a man or a woman to be topless in England and Wales, so long as the person has not taken off their clothes with the intention of shocking or upsetting others.

https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/616538

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

There is even a special ordinances for Newcastle that say that the moment the temperature exceeds 12°C taking your top off becomes mandatory.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

A living edge case. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

I guess the only solution is to free the nipple

[–] [email protected] 53 points 14 hours ago

Fucking Genius

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