22.08.2010 - 03:30
Men Wear Bras So Women Can Go Topless - UFO Cult Fights For Right Of Women To Go Topless In Public
Men Wear Bras So Women Can Go Topless (Warning: Graphic Sadness &
Nudity)
AOL News ^ | August 19, 2010 | David Moye
Posted on 21 August 2010 7:37:39 by 2ndDivisionVet
Gay marriage is a hot issue right now, but it's not as titillating as
another battle for equality: the right for women to go topless in
public.
That right is a fundamental one, according to the folks behind Go
Topless, an organization dedicated to the belief that in order for
America to be a truly equal society, women should be able to bare
their breasts without fear of being arrested.
Go Topless has been around since 2007, and its big push is Go Topless
Day, an annual event held on the Sunday closest to Aug. 26, which is
Women's Equality Day, the anniversary of the day women were given the
right to vote.
Women in nine U.S. cities -- Seattle, New York, Chicago, Miami, Los
Angeles, Denver, Honolulu, San Francisco and Austin, Texas -- will
gather in public spots on Aug. 22 to put the hot-button issue front
and center by wearing little more than strategically placed stickers.
In addition, male supporters of the cause will show their support by
wearing bras and bikinis.
"It's a matter of fairness," Go Topless director Nadine Gary said. "We
want equal topless rights for all or none."
Gary believes that the right for women to go topless should be
guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. "The Supreme Court won't stop
us," she added
Although other countries, such as Gary's country of origin, France,
tolerate topless women, she wants it to be in the legal books so there
is no wiggle room.
"Some states, like New York, are supposedly 'top-free,' but in 2005
Phoenix Feeley was arrested for going topless," Gary said. "She later
won $29,000 for wrongful arrest."
(VIDEO AT LINK - CONTAINS NUDITY)
Note: Women in this video are wearing nipple covers that look like
actual nipples.
Gary admits that it's one thing for the laws to be changed to reflect
a woman's right to choose to go topless, but it will be harder to get
women to actually do it.
"There is a puritanism here that will have an effect," she said. "But
it's the same as it was 40 years ago in France. The problem will be
lifted when women see other women doing it."
Gary is aware that America has a lot of "body-conscious" women who may
not want to go topless, but the point, she says, isn't to make all
women bare their breasts, but to make the option legal.
Meanwhile, Gary is getting support from, not surprisingly, men.
"Guys are great," she said. "They understand this issue, and we get
lots of cooperation from males."
One of those is Larry Abdulla, a Chicago-based dentist who, at 63, is
putting his support on the line by wearing a red bikini at the Chicago
rally.
"This is much more than wanting women to go topless," he insisted to
AOL News. "It's about equal rights. Why is it OK for men to be topless
but not women?
"It's terrible. A woman breastfeeding her baby in public gets hassled
just because people are afraid of how some guys might react. Other
guys get excited by seeing legs or belly buttons. Do you ban those
too? A transsexual who may have beautiful breasts can get away with
going topless if he still has a penis."
A male protester wears a bikini top as he prepares to march during
National Go Topless Day to honor Women's Equality Day at Venice Beach
in Los Angeles on Aug. 23, 2009. The annual protest is held in several
U.S. cities to promote the idea that women have the same
constitutional right to be bare-chested in public places as men.
Although Go Topless is focused on the laws in the U.S., its roots are,
well, extraterrestrial in origin.
Both Gary and Abdulla are members of the Raelian religion, which
believes that humans were created by advanced scientists known as the
Elohim. The group is best known for its close ties to Clonaid, a human
cloning company that claimed in 2002 to have created the first cloned
human baby.
They say their beliefs in ETs are inspiring them to fight to make the
right to bare breasts as fundamental as the right to bear arms.
"All life on Earth is created by advanced scientists," Abdulla said.
"We have no reason to be shy about our bodies. They are works of art."
Of course, art is in the eye of the beholder, and Gary admits that
some guys who attend a Go Topless rally initially act like boobs.
"Some of them take pictures at first, but then they get used to seeing
women's bodies and return to normal within an hour," she said.
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