made a meme thing about #topless #equality just now that I would be honored if anyone felt like sharing to your own social media pages <3 #feminism #intersectionalFeminism #gender #genderEquality #patriarchy #sexism #misogyny #malePrivilege #censorship #puritanism #doubleStandards - ThreadSky

toplesstopics.bsky.social • 224 days ago

made a meme thing about #topless #equality
just now that I would be honored if anyone felt like sharing to your own social media pages <3

#feminism #intersectionalFeminism #gender #genderEquality #patriarchy #sexism #misogyny #malePrivilege #censorship #puritanism #doubleStandards

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nakedranga.bsky.social•4 days ago

Done <3

sciencexspirit.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's a stupid double standard. And the supposed "obscenity" of breasts is a circular argument: why are breasts obscene? Because they're considered obscene.

toplesstopics.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yep. The common refrain is "because breasts are sexual" "why are they sexual?" "because men find them sexually attractive" so I guess apparently straight women and gay men's attraction to MALE nipples just somehow doesn't count.

sciencexspirit.bsky.social•5 days ago

💯 Plus, that was the exact same excuse use to make women cover their legs and their hair. If women stopped wearing tops like men, it would quickly stop being considered intrinsically sexual.

toplesstopics.bsky.social•5 days ago

as I often like to counter, "if what body parts women are allowed to show is determined by whether or not men fetishize them, why are women allowed to wear sandals?"

sciencexspirit.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ooh, I love that one. I'll have to steal it. And, yeah, if women went by what doesn't get sexualized by others and what doesn't offend anyone, their only choice would be an invisibility cloak. And there's probably a fetish for that too.

greglwhite.bsky.social•3 days ago

Maybe because women can control themselves when they see a topless man?

sciencexspirit.bsky.social•3 days ago

I've been to topless beaches before. My first time going was at 19. If a 19 year old who never dated before and is pretty hypersexual can control himself and not ogle, then anyone can control themselves. And the blame would be on those who don't control themselves, not on the topless person.

sciencexspirit.bsky.social•3 days ago

Saying men can't control themselves is self-defeating. Of course they can. They control themselves every time an annoying coworker or a bad boss says anything to them. The question is will they choose to control themselves?

sciencexspirit.bsky.social•3 days ago

And I do have to wonder why society excuses men harassing or even assaulting women more than it does men punching a coworker. Why is treating women with respect no matter what they're wearing considered impossible, but, behaving in the face of annoying people is simply expected?

toplesstopics.bsky.social•3 days ago

Exactly! It's wild how men will argue that "women are too emotional to be president" in the same breath that they argue women must cover up their bodies so "men won't be tempted to rape them" 🙃

sciencexspirit.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's beyond belief. I don't understand why men accept this as just how men are. It seems pretty insulting to me. I feel really insulted every time I see it. And, like you said, it seems to indicate that men shouldn't ever be trusted with power if they can't control what they do.

lars1812.bsky.social•4 days ago

It is great to see you here on bluesky ☺️ i always liked your content and i hope you doing well 🌿 naked Greetings from Germany. Lars

toplesstopics.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah... Though y'all should really continue the journey to a decentralized platform like mastodon, instead of relying on bluesky to not end up exactly like Twitter 🙃

skycladspirit.bsky.social•4 days ago

Here in NYC, topless equality is (a) totally legal and (b) hardly ever in evidence. There's such a gulf between law and culture. Usually it's legislation that's dragging its heels. In this case, feeling law-abiding and feeling safe are very far from the same thing.

toplesstopics.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's the catch 22 of social media--"female nipples outside of sexual situation aren't frequently seen in public, so advertisers assume they're still taboo, so they maintain that the platforms they subsidize shouldn't allow the sight of them."

toplesstopics.bsky.social•4 days ago

but add to that the misogyny--women have never been allowed to set the standards for what rights we have, only (when we do have limited success) upset the patriarchy enough that they finally relent in "giving" us that right,

toplesstopics.bsky.social•4 days ago

as if it was ever their jurisdiction to withhold it in the first place. It's how women earned the right to wear pants, to vote, to have our own bank accounts, etc... While cis white men have just automatically been given these rights.

skycladspirit.bsky.social•4 days ago

In the deathless words of Hawkwind, "we took the wrong step years ago". Well, millennia. And a stack more very recently.

santaerik.bsky.social•224 days ago

Being a topless female appearing body is entirely legal in all Minneapolis parks and on all park owned roads and trails.

Thanks to Free The Nipple for years of organizing and protests.

toplesstopics.bsky.social•224 days ago

sadly Free the Nipple as an organization pretty much fizzled out years ago and stayed localized to New York...I've been over here on the opposite coast pretty much on my lonesome keeping up the fight by myself, though on the rare occasion I do find others (especially fellow femmes!) I boost 'em!

santaerik.bsky.social•223 days ago

Free the Nipple had a strong local organizer here in MPLS. I can't remember their name.

toplesstopics.bsky.social•223 days ago

That's great. I do searches for "free the Nipple" every few months but pretty much the only results I ever get are either Florence Pugh wearing another semi transparent outfit to a Hollywood party, or FTN press that's 10+ years old. If FTN is still doing work, then news about it is suppressed.

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