Fighting for the right to be topless (yes, really)
Major cities in the US, viagra 40mg including San Francisco, dosage New York and LA, are gearing up for protests this Sunday fighting for the right for women to go topless in public spaces beyond just the beach, just as men do, reports Fox News.
The protests will encourage women to be topless during the protest, which is organised by the little known (well, by me, anyway) Raelian Movement, which believes that life on Earth was created by advanced extraterrestrial scientists (how proud those scientists must be now).
Organisers claim that the protest aims to address the fundamental constitutional inequality that allows men to be topless, but not women. You can find out more, and perhaps even organise your own marches (and please do let us know if you do) at the Go Topless website.
Seriously though folks, I would love to hear your views on this one. Part of me thinks it's a great idea to 'normalise' being topless in this way, while another part of me thinks out of all of the possible battles for sexual equality still to be fought, this would be way down on my list. And is the march likely to bring out a lot of jeering and sexist men or will it end up being a real celebration of the female form that moves somehow beyond the objectification of women's bodies? I've been to festivals where many women were topless that genuinely had this atmosphere (yes, I'm a hippy).
Or have I already spent far too much time thinking about this and would be better off moving on to something more useful, like cleaning my skirting boards?
As ever, all thoughts welcome.
I am not sure how correct is the founder and the “spiritual leader” of the Go Topless founder is about the US Constitutional rights of women. There is still not an Equal Rights Amendment for women in US. It was passed through the Senate but it was never ratified. Either way I think among the subjects of women’s empowerment around the World, this has to be the one all the way down on the line for me too.
Thanks Emine. I must admit the story was so bizarre it didn’t occur to me check out whether he was right or not about the constitution! It does seem to me very likely that a woman going topless in a public space would be treated differently from a man doing the same thing.
Nonetheless, beyond raising the quirks of how women’s (objectified) bodies have come to be seen as both in need of protection, and for others to be protected from, this story isn’t high on my list of ‘rights to equalised’, either!