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Will You Take It All Off On Topless Saturday?
Posted by: Julie Gerstein
10:40AM, Wednesday August 18th 2010
http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-will-you-take-it-all-off-on-topless-saturday/
The right to bare ... breasts? This Saturday marks the third annual "Go
Topless" protest <http://www.gotopless.org/> in which women are encouraged
to take off their shirts and go topless in the name of gender equality. Held
simultaneously in nine cities around the country—including Denver, Chicago
and Miami—it aims to end shame around women's bodies. The group's founder
and "spiritual leader" Maitreya Rael (yes of the cult The Raelians) says,
"as long as men can be topless, constitutionally women should have the same
right, or men should also be forced to wear something hiding their chest."
The GoTopless group sees their cause as aligned with the fight for women's
suffrage and equality. They also "aim to help men differentiate between
nudity and sexuality" by demystifying toplessness and rendering it normal.
It does seem strange that men—even men with very large man boobs—are legally
permitted and socially encouraged to walk around shirtless and women are
not. The legal inconsistency definitely speaks to the cultural
over-sexualization of the female body. But we're not entirely sold. When it
comes down to it, we have no interest in seeing anyone's breasts—male OR
female—when we're out and about. In fact, it drives us crazy when men walk
around sans shirts in our neighborhood (I don't want to see your gross,
hairy chests and man boobs, OK?).
Female toplessness is currently legal in the District of Columbia; New York
State; Columbus, OH; Ontario, Canada; Moscow, Idaho; and Maine. And many
additional cities permit public breastfeeding (deemed not the same as public
toplessness). A 1999 federal law ruled that "a woman may breastfeed her
child at any location in a Federal building or on Federal property, if the
woman and her child are otherwise authorized to be present at the
location."
Tell us: Should women have the same right to go topless as men? Would you—or
have you—ever gone topless in public?
[GoTopless.org<http://www.gotopless.org/>]
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agree with their content or support it. "Selected by RAEL" means that I believe
it is important for the people of this planet to know about what people think or
do, even when what they think or do is completely stupid and against our
philosophy. When I selected articles in the past about stupid Christian
fundamentalists in America praying for rain, I am sure no Rael-Science reader
was stupid enough to believe that I was supporting praying to change the
weather. So, when I select articles which are in favor of drugs, anti-semitic,
anti-Jewish, racist, revisionist, or inciting hatred against any group or
religion, or any other stupid article, it does not mean that I support them. It
just means that it is important for all human beings to know about them. Common
sense, which is usually very good among our readers, is good enough to
understand that. When, like in the recent articles on drug decriminalization, it
is necessary to make it clearer, I add a comment, which in this case was very
clear: I support decriminalizing all drugs, as it is stupid to throw depressed
and sad people (as only depressed and sad people use drugs) in prison and ruin
their life with a criminal record. That does not mean that there is any change
to the Message which says clearly that we must not use any drug except for
medical purposes. The same applies to the freedom of expression which must be
absolute. That does not mean again of course that I agree with anti-Jews,
antisemites, racists of any kind or anti-Raelians. But by knowing your enemies
or the enemies of your values, you are better equipped to fight them. With love
and respect of course, and with the wonderful sentence of the French philosopher
Voltaire in mind: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death
your right to say it".
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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