Women's Topfreedom March in Maine
Posted 4th April 2010 at 07:22 PM by stringsinger
Two articles appeared in the Maine Sunday Telegram about a a topfree march through Portland which was organised (via Facebook) by a young woman named Ty McDowell:
Women march topless in Portland without incident
Marching for right to bare breasts, women faced with sea of cameras
It is also interesting to read the comments section after the articles. I respect Ms. MacDowell for her effort, but am a bit surprised at her naivete as to the kind of response she might have expected from the public. If her aim is to desensitize the public to women's topfreedom, it will be important to persist. The legal right to be topfree has already been won in Main, but public acceptance will not be won until enough women are willing to exercise that right. I think she learned some valuable lessons this first time out. According to one of the articles, Facebook was used to promote the event. She might do well to publicize the next one a little less publicly, to avoid drawing a crowd of onlookers who otherwise would not have been there. I do think that if a group of women (and perhaps some of their shirtless male supporters) would commit to publicly going topfree on a regular basis, it would go a long way towards achieving their goal--once this becomes commonplace, the public will accept it. Some brave women must be willing to face the immature reactions of some (ogling, mocking and scorn), if wide-spread public acceptance is ever to be won. What good is a legal right, if that right is never exercised?
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The latter part of your comment pinpoints how to conquer the issue. By its' rareness, top-nudity in women becomes an attractor.
ReplyDeleteIf this had been the Cote dAzur in France, no one would have commented.
The only way to guarentee (sp?) the right, without the voyeurism is to do it more often.
And then, on the other hand, I always feel compelled to compliment those of our race who can carry the 'nude look' to the compliment of us all.
And, I always tell them - - 'Right On!'
cartoman