"PORTLAND - About two dozen women marched topless from Longfellow Square to Tommy's Park this afternoon in an effort to erase what they see as a double standard on male and female nudity."
Ah, finally, a movement I can support, and from the looks of it, they need all the "support" they can get! Apparently the state in which this unorthodox event took place, Maine, defines nudity as "genitals only". So, what's a girl to do when she can walk around topless? Well, it seems she's going to...um....walk around topless.
"The women, preceded and followed by several hundred boisterous and mostly male onlookers, many of them carrying cameras"
Oh really? No kidding? You don't say? A whole bunch of guys followed a whole bunch of topless women? This sounds more like a bizarre bachelor party or Girls Gone Wild event than a social movement. My favorite part of this story is the organizers' comments after the march:
"Ty McDowell, who organized the march, said she was "enraged" by the turnout of men attracted to the demonstration. The purpose, she said, was for society to have the same reaction to a woman walking around topless as it does to men without shirts on."
Come on Ty, COME ON! Sure, I suppose she can be enraged, but I think her position would have been more effective had she used this as a teachable moment. What if she had said the following INSTEAD:
"The attention we received while marching today illustrates the divide between the social perception of men and women, and how we still have a long way to go before we reach equality. I mean, if there were 20 topless men walking down the street, it would probably have looked like a ghost-town around here. I think we have made some progress though, and I look forward to our next event"
Ty, you can lose your shirt, but lose the aggression too! Have a sense of humor for goodness sakes, and realize that until internet porn is obsolete and Hustler and Playboy go bankrupt, naked chicks will remain totally sweet...
NOTE: I felt it was my duty to maintain the normative male perspective on female nudity for the purposes of this entry. Please don't think less of me, I really am a decent human being.
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