Worcester woman fights for the right to bare breasts

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On the streets of Worcester, some residents have done a double take, questioning whether they really saw a woman walking or biking around town topless.

"That's me," said Stacey, who did not want to have her last name published. "I'm trying to promote topless equality."

In early July, Stacey stepped outside her Worcester home fully dressed below the belt, but without a bra or shirt.

"I've been a nudist for years and years," she said. "I started being an activist about a month ago."

http://www.masslive.com/news/worcester/index.ssf/2013/08/worcester_woman_fights_for_the.html#incart_river_default#incart_m-rpt-2

[joelz]

1. Thats been the law

in Ontario for years I don't see the big deal. I did suspect some cultural differences after Janet Jacksons accident though.

[NuclearDem]

2. We've had the right to show boobies for years...

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Dancin' boobies lead to FOR-NI-KA-SHUN!

[Little Star]

4. She can do whatever the law allows. But this woman (me) doesn't much care to look at a another...

woman's breasts. What does it prove? All women have them. I personally don't much care to look at anyone else's fat deposits.

[Nye Bevan]

6. Are you OK with people wearing shorts that show thigh-fat? (nt)

[Little Star]

7. Sometimes, I think it would be helpful to just keep thigh-fat covered up when possible...

It would stop people from making nasty remarks about them. But they most certainly have the legal right to show them.

I can't type for shit! And that is embarrassing, lol!

[Nye Bevan]

5. I support her in this worthy quest.

This has been legal in NYC for years. Why should it be legal for a shirtless man to display his man-boobs but illegal for a woman to be topless?

[WinkyDink]

8. The disingenuousness, she burns. Gee, I wonder WHY men buy "Playboy" or go to "Scores". It's a

puzzlement, I tell ya! Can't be anything having to do with sex, so it must be that men like looking at mammary glands because they are reminded of their mothers.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Yeah, I wonder why....

If it happened all the time, those mags would go out of business. They thrive on the 'forbidden fruit' aspect of our Puritanical society.

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. I don't so much have a problem with this...

but I'd be more supportive of a movement to get men who aren't swimming, jogging, or at the beach to wear shirts in public.

[hunter]

11. Horrors! What will happen if we lose womens' breasts as a sales tool?

It would destroy our consumer society.

Men might stop buying cars and alcoholic beverages!

This prohibition in our culture is the same as the clothing restrictions in more fundamentalist societies.

Topless is unremarkable in societies where everyone is topless, just as hair is unremarkable in societies where nobody covers up their head.