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Fort Collins, Colorado "Frees the Nipple"

posted by martyb on Saturday September 21 2019, @01:38AM   
from the freeze-peach dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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Original Submission

• Re:Topless Is Topless (Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @04:47PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21 2019, @04:47PM (#896844)

  You're obviously female, and you're obviously trolling.

  BZZT! Wrong on both counts. Like many SN users, I'm a male in my 50s.

  And am absolutely not trolling. Unless believing that discrimination is wrong equals trolling. Allowing men to be topless and not women is discriminatory. That's not a male/female issue, that's an equality issue.

  Women are their own worst enemies.

  and there you go, talking about how "men can't stop themselves from raping." Of course, that is of course the only explanation, as generated by a psychic and parroted by the unquestioning followers.

  My comparison to Arab societies was one of degree. Women are often required to be covered from head to toe in places like Saudi Arabia. And the arguments in those places are similar to yours: "Women's bodies are sexual and always so. As such, they must be hidden or women will corrupt men, because women are inherently lustful, scheming and bad and, as such, must be controlled."

  This is paralleled here in discriminatory laws about clothing. It's also paralleled in our culture, sexualizing female bodies in the media, making claims that women must not be allowed control over their own bodies (e.g. contraception, family planning, etc.), and your ridiculous claim that women think sex is bad, is moronic on its face.

  Women love sex just as much (and often more) as men do. What they don't love is folks like you treating them as sexual objects, instead of sentient beings with all the same rights as men.

  Please explain to me why women shouldn't have exactly the same legal rights as men.

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