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Michael Porter

@georgetakei Funny thing is, this is legal in Ontario, Canada. Not to say she wouldn't have been harassed by a cop, though...

3 Feb 2023 at 18:29 | Wall-to-wall | Open on ottawa.place
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Ed

@georgetakei @MichaelPorter it’s legal in British Columbia as well. Women can go shirtless if they wish.

3 Feb 2023 at 18:49 | Open on mstdn.social
JonKramer

@MichaelPorter @georgetakei , it's legal in Kentucky too. The times change. A few years back we had a 'free the nipple' march in Louisville, where hundreds of women legally marched down the center of a street topless.

3 Feb 2023 at 19:55 | Open on qoto.org
David McFarlane

@MichaelPorter @georgetakei I have been to Ontario, but never seen a woman exercise this right.

3 Feb 2023 at 20:34 | Open on twit.social
Megan

@dkmcf @MichaelPorter Yeah. Aside from Pride-related events or wilderness camping, the harassment risk is usually too great to go topless in Ontario.

3 Feb 2023 at 20:42 | Open on mstdn.ca
Michael Porter

@PapyrusBrigade @dkmcf I was just about to say this. When the first "bare" protests were occurring, there were all kinds of losers out with their cameras.
I understand the desire to have the right, but I can't imagine a woman exercising it in this society.

3 Feb 2023 at 20:46 | Open on ottawa.place
Cleo of Topless Topics

@MichaelPorter
I took part in a topless protest at a university campus once--a few dozen of us, women and topless equality supporters, were literally just sitting there on the lawn doing nothing, and yet there were HUNDREDS crowded around us gawking giggling, making gross comments, taking photos, etc. it was so pathetic. they're just nipples, dude bros.
@PapyrusBrigade @dkmcf

4 Feb 2023 at 18:25 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Cleo of Topless Topics

@dkmcf
because they don't want assholes taking pictures of them and uploading them to porn sites, most likely. not to mention even in NY which infamously allows female toplessness (now) still has to keep retraining cops not to arrest topless women for "indecent exposure" just because some asshole prudes complained.
@MichaelPorter @georgetakei

4 Feb 2023 at 18:08 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Frank Cote

@MichaelPorter @georgetakei that's because there's only two months out of twelve where you can take your top off in Ontario.

3 Feb 2023 at 22:12 | Open on union.place
Anno Dominaysayer

@Frankc1450 fun fact: the southernmost part of Ontario is at the same latitude as Northern California. The vast majority of the population lives in the part of the province where we regularly get 85-95 degrees Fahrenheit temps between May and September.

4 Feb 2023 at 18:19 | Open on mstdn.ca
Cleo of Topless Topics

@MichaelPorter
thank you for adding the second part. is infuriating to me when men think "well technically it's legal, so there's no barrier at all to women being topless in public!" as if cops aren't ACABing all over them anyway.
@georgetakei

4 Feb 2023 at 18:23 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Michael Porter

@toplesstopics @georgetakei Just think of all the times a woman, post assault, was asked β€œwhat were you wearing?”

4 Feb 2023 at 18:28 | Open on ottawa.place
Cleo of Topless Topics

@MichaelPorter
πŸ’―πŸ’―πŸ’―πŸ’―
like, I did this interview with passersby at Venice Beach (full of shamelessly topless males, as all US beaches are) and so often, even would-be supporters argued against topless equality "in case it increased chances of them getting raped." because as always, the onus is on women to "not entice men to rape," not on men to, you know, not rape.

toplesstopics.org/venicebeach/

this was a major part of what put me off the breadtuber, Vaush πŸ™ƒ despite being a self professed gender abolitionist and trans rights supporter, he literally said "girls shouldn't be topless in public so they don't get raped" when I brought it up in the chatroom during his livestream. one must never forget he is still, at the end of it all, a white cis male.
@georgetakei

@MichaelPorter
πŸ’―πŸ’―πŸ’―πŸ’―
like, I did this interview with passersby at Venice Beach (full of shamelessly topless males, as all US beaches are) and so often, even would-be supporters argued against topless equality "in case it increased chances of them getting raped." because as always, the onus is on women to "not entice men to rape," not on men to, you know, not rape.

4 Feb 2023 at 18:54 | Open on eldritch.cafe
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