Warning: The above link is NSFW as it has a picture of a topless woman in the article. It is not pornographic or lewd, but here, there be boobies.
[quote]Ladies of New York, you are free to walk bare-breasted through the city! New York City's 34,000 police officers have been instructed that, should they encounter a woman in public who is shirtless but obeying the law, they should not arrest her. This is a good step towards gender parity in public spaces.[/quote]
The comments are interesting. There are a lot of good arguments for and against this. In my opinion, given the culture we have where we relate breasts with sexuality in the same way we relate genitalia, it's inappropriate and seems willfully ignorant to assume men's bare chests are equivalent. But then again, I'm just a turkey, and our breasts are [i]fabulous.[/i]
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Edited by PSU 975: 5/19/2013 9:57:29 PMHow long until the first topless woman is rap/ed?
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Don't care.
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I will be satisfied when I can hang out with my wang out.
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K guys, now it's our turn to be able to go out pant-less!
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Cool. *goes on about my day*
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I can see it now: New York City is the new home of nudist colonies.
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Well, that's nice. Now, how many women are actually gonna do that?
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Uhm well that is going to be awkward. I am actually going on a uni trip to New York in mid October.
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Well, time to move to New York.
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New York New York baby.
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What's funny is that the "protest" had a few hundred people in Times Square. If you have been to TS, you'd know that this probably didn't get noticed, which is unusual, as there were bared chests involved.
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What does NSFW mean?not safe for ...
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Really the only place this is going to end up being relevant in NYC is at places like Central Park or Brighton Beach for sunbathers, assuming it applies there still as well. I doubt you'll see very many people walking down Madison Avenue with their titties hanging out.
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How could it ever have been illegal is what I will never understand. In public you should be allowed to be nude so long as you're not harming anyone.
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Took your time New York, your catching up to us at least.
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But if she's drinking a Big Gulp, someone's going to jail. NYC, plz don't ever change.
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She looks disturbingly like one of my teachers...
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Cool? Woman have been allowed to be topless in my city for YEARS, it means they [i]can[/i] not that they [i]will[/i]. Don't go expecting every hot girl to walk around with her tits out. Instead expect gross fat hippy/activist chicks to flop their griddlecakes out once or twice a year at some shitty music festival.
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Funny, considering opposition to that would probably be more female than male.
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Don't these women know that the guys only like them for their bodies?
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Well...I don't know what to say.
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I think this is a step towards dissociating breasts from sexuality. The human body, especially the female one, is too often viewed in terms of sex.
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Uh... Right... inb4terriblethingshappenanditbackfires
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There seem to be very few women in that rally crowd. >.> Just sayin.
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This is a step the rest of the world should take.
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Serious post: there is nothing wrong with nudity in media or on the streets.