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https://kdvr.com/2019/09/05/fort-collins-agrees-to-remove-topless-ban-from-public-code/
Colorado city officials have removed a topless ban from city law that inspired a Free the Nipple lawsuit.
The Coloradoan reported that Fort Collins City Council agreed Tuesday to remove language in the public nudity code that barred women and girls over age 10 from exposing their breasts in public.
City officials say the ban is expected to be removed Sept. 17.
Officials say a district court judge and a federal appeals court have ruled against the policy in the past two years.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Saturday September 21 2019, @12:54PM (4 children)
It has been legal for women to go topless in New York City for about twenty years now. Except for a couple of exhibitionists at the annual Mermaid Parade [coneyisland.com] or particularly militant members of Dykes on Bikes at the Village Halloween Parade (well, the way it used to be--they Disney-fied it once they started televising it), women do not walk around topless. It is a "right" they do not exercise.
As such, it seems more likely fighting for the right to go topless has little to do with actually wanting to walk around topless and much more to do with exercising political power. Using it to flout universal social mores must be a particularly gratifying example.
When you stop to think about it, those same forces must be reveling in their unprecedented power these days. For as much as they complain about Trump, they are dominating the political narrative and eviscerating every social verity that has sustained Western Civilization (and most other civilizations, too) for millennia. They have normalized homosexuality and made it a firing offense to say "there are only two genders." They have made being male or having white skin a real Mark of Cain. They have jettisoned all the achievements of the Enlightenment: science, free inquiry, freedom, democracy (they'd rather rig that to make sure the "correct" outcome is achieved). They have made real progress on banning the consumption of meat; have made progress on getting people to eat insects; and have fired the first shots in the bid to normalize cannibalism. Cherished cultural touchstones have been trashed. They've also begun normalizing bestiality and pedophilia.
So those women ought to go topless everywhere, all the time, as a badge of honor for what they have wrought. They've earned the power to stick their finger in everyone's eye, and should revel in it.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @03:11PM (1 child)
When it became legal, the police were going around having women expose their breasts to men in the park and having her ask to see his penis. When he exposed himself, the police would jump out and arrest the guy. I think they all got off due to entrapment, but aren't completely sure. I'm sure their lives were destroyed.
Be careful what people ask of you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @05:19PM
I call bullshit. You can't provide *any* evidence for this.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Sunday September 22 2019, @10:56PM (1 child)
I was with you for the first paragraph, ready to hit you with an Insightful mod.
Then the second half got kind of ... weird. I'm not entirely sure that removing gender-bias in our laws is a step toward cannibalism or bestiality.
So now I'm conflicted. How do you mod half of a post one way, and the other half another? It's not like you can order a half-n-half mod like you can a pizza. Perhaps "interesting" is the way to go.
FWIW, I completely agree that this is all about the right to be topless rather than any actual desire to do so. I highly doubt that Fort Collins will become inundated with naked boobs any time soon.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday September 23 2019, @12:19PM
That's fair.
It's not that allowing toplessness is a gateway to cannibalism or bestiality, but that it's an exercise in power to smash social norms. That's the point I was trying to make.
There are extremists who have seized control of the public discourse who are pushing the envelope as far as ever they can. They've been able to do it because the mainstream media has become desperate to stay afloat and reckon outrage porn is the way to do that. That in turn gives them the means to drive politicians to enshrine their hopes in law.
Washington DC delenda est.