Women March Topless for Equality in Maine USA

Huffington Post (HP) reports a dozen of women in Maine, a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, holds a demo demanding to be accepted socially if they are walking around without a bra. It’s already legal of doing so under the local law. In short, the women just want this: if men can go topless during summer and are accepted socially, why women cannot?

Nearly two dozen of them marched topless through this college town to protest what they call a double standard that allows men to take off their shirts on a hot summer day. Many men joined the women, taking off their shirts and marching side by side. Joining the scrum were gawkers snapping photos.

It’s already legal under state law for women to go topless in public in Maine. But the protesters in Farmington want it to become socially acceptable, too.

Most commenters of HP in the post, which is predominantly men, undoubtely agree to what the women protesters want. However, there’s one comment nicknamed PCMinistry, which have a bit different point of view on this topless protester. He’s different in the sense that he’s more honest on motivation behind his agreement to what the women are protesting i.e. the sexual drive of men towards women’s flesh; not hiding behind the freedom of expression or other “scientific” reason:

I love that more and more the expressions of feminism that I see all seem to be geared towards satisfying my wishes as a man. Girls sleep around now and convince themselves it’s about empowerment? Hey, I’m all for that. They want to take their clothes off? Sounds good to me. If I was a woman though, I might question what seems like the movement simply creating a reasoning behind following their own base urges to begin with. It’s a primitization. As a man with my own base urges to think about I love it, and at least I’m being honest about my motives.

Picture courtesy: bangordailynews.com