Equal treatment irrespective of the sexual features you were born into? What a left-field decision in this clusterfuck of a year.
Free the nipple!
Yes ladies, now we too are free to freeze our tits off in Minnesota.
TIL Minnesota has no summer.
Minnesota Summer is more like Missouri year round
Female-presenting nipples?? Tumblr told me those were porn.
It’s weird that a man topless is fine for pg movies, even G probably. But a woman topless shoots it right up to R. Though Titanic was PG-13. I assume it was more relaxed at the time?
It happened now and then, but it’s mostly because James Cameron gets to do whatever he wants. Any rando director and it’s an R rating. If PG-13 movies get to show a female-presenting nipple at all, like the Fifth Element, they will be very brief, often from the side, and may not even be in focus. They’re probably not using makeup or other techniques to make the nipples stand out.
Same with Wolf of Wall Street, but on the next level up. Scorsese directs and argues against an NC-17 rating (which is considered a box office death sentence).
Hollywood is a very nepotistic industry, and the ratings system is no exception. Most of the rules for ratings aren’t even written down. There are unwritten rules that even the general public figures out (like only getting one f-bomb in a PG-13 movie), but they can be cast aside when a major director or producer gets on the phone and causes a fuss.
There are quite a few PG-13 where women are topless. Boobs don’t automatically get an R rating. Everything else being equal, I believe it has to be topless in a sexual context to elicit an R rating.
Men aren’t even referred to as having breasts because they’re so much smaller, but a really long time ago some people dictated that women should keep that shit covered up, ostensibly because giblets started tingling at the sight. Meanwhile, cultures exist that make no distinction between the two, and casually ask the rest of the world, “Fucking… why?”
I think this is a disingenuous take. Different cultures all have their own taboos. Is it all social constructs? Yea, sure, but that doesn’t make them invalid within context. By nature they aren’t logical.
They’re cultural creations. They were created by human beings, and WE have the power to change them. If we want something to stop being a taboo, we can simply will it to be as such.
Quite a bit of hubris you have there…
Better than nihilistic fatalism that the world is doomed and there’s nothing we can do to improve it.
Um, sure. If those were the only two options.
History disagrees. It’s very hard to go against cultural norms, and in many cases can result in being ostracized, imprisoned, or put to death.
The taboos are pretty logical. They’ve swung back and forth over the years. For example, the Victorian era of prudishness appeared not long after the syphilis epidemic.
Why is it disingenous? It shows just what you said by the end - that it’s not logical. Doesn’t that make them kind of invalid? What kind of context would make them valid? Just history?
Just probably don’t do it in the 9 out of 12 months we used to have winter in
Pretty sure the mosquitos will get you for the remainder.
“I didn’t even know nipples could shatter, but there they were: on the floor all broken”
For those concerned (or hopeful) about vast hordes of topless Minnesota women roaming the streets: They made boobs legal in Ontario in the mid 90’s and I’ve NEVER seen any women go topless in public. I’m sure it happens, but it’s extremely rare. Heck, most guys still swim in t-shirts up here.
The point of the law in Canada was to make a point that if men and women are to be equal, the law should reflect that. Of course in the US it’s about sex and not equality.
The mosquitos alone are gong to keep them covered. As a man, I don’t go without a shirt when outside.
Dude. Mosquitos are fucking assholes! I once went hiking in a tshirt and I walked by an area wiyh stagnant water and lots of mosquitos. Guess what was their preferred part to sting? I made a point to have full sleeves after that.
Exposed female breasts are legal in BC, or maybe just the greater Vancouver area, and I’ve seen more than a handful of wild, naked, boobies in my time there.
Go topless or the misogynists win!
I lived in Haiti for 3 years where the top of a woman was not considered private. Within 2 months, looking at a woman’s breast was about as exciting as looking at her elbow. Weirdly, they switched back to being sexual after returning to Canada.
Woman’s breasts aren’t considered private here (Canada) either
By law or by culture?
At least in Ontario. Women have had the same right as men to go topless anywhere a man would. This is since 1996, I think that’s when that Gretchen lass took it to court.
So by law, yes. A culture of women walking around topless is a different thing entirely.
But the article is about law, not culture, right?
The reply a few above is about Haiti, which is more cultural. That’s how we got here.
Oh, I see.
Both?
To be clear, I would expect that if it’s by culture, then it’d be very common to see women walking around topless and nobody pays it much attention.
Lots of places allow it at a matter of law. There’s been many state Supreme Court cases like the one in OP that say female breasts don’t count towards indecent exposure. Where I live (Madison, WI), those laws only apply to being sexually lewd. Anyone can technically run around naked otherwise, but it’s not something people commonly do outside of the World Naked Bike Ride and protests.
You can see women topless at beaches but only in summer
There is an incentive to cover them for women
When they stop becoming “private parts” they stop having the effect
Amen.
Yeah. Topless isn’t naked, and people who think otherwise are a bunch of weirdos.
This is DISGRACEFUL! IMAGINE if a CHILD sees a FEMALE NIPPLE! The DOWNFALL of America is Happening in FRONT of our Eyes!
-People who Worship School Shooters!
What if they actually use the nipple to…feed the baby
Meanwhile Texas just banned the Virginia state flag because it has a cartoon A-cup.
.) to drive ‘em wild in Texas
Based Minnesota
like light breaking through dark clouds. release the boobs
Yeah that’s nice but if I let my moobs free I still get hated on, when’s the oppression gonna end??
