Breasts might not serve a sexually functioning purpose but they are sexualised. Straight men, and lesbians, can't help the fact that they've adopted a strong attraction to breasts, particularly larger, shapely ones. If every woman had them out in public, not that they would because most women would be too self-conscious and would prefer to keep them covered, but if every woman DID have them out in public, as if to say "here they are! Stop sexualising them!" That wouldn't happen. They would still be sexualised. Because men are sexually attracted to them, and that's ok. You know what would happen? A lot of creeps and pedophiles and perverts and peeping toms jerking off and taking photos of unsuspecting women. And that's not ok. You can scream "stop sexualising us!!!!" at all these perverts but at the end of the day you have to be realistic, it's not going to happen.
Well, yeah, then I guess I am. Because really, what is the point? What is the ****ing point of all this? If this girl have #BringBackOurGirls written across her boobs then I would be behind this. If she was using it to bring awareness to a case of a woman who had been raped and murdered that the media wasn't covering because of her race, then I would be behind this. But she's not. She's just walking around topless in New York, which isn't normal behaviour. Regardless of how legal it is. This can make shop-owners uncomfortable. This can make people in public uncomfortable. People would still be uncomfortable if a man was walking around topless. People who aren't aware that it's legal might even call the police, which is a waste of the police's time. And all because what? Men are allowed to show their nipples and that's somehow unfair? Unless I was at the beach or a music festival, I would never, ever, ever show my nipples or walk around the city topless. I would feel so self-conscious and uncomfortable.
Plenty of men have had their lives ruined by naked pictures getting into the public, just look at someone like Anthony Wiener. Women have been known to use naked photos of exes against them too. This isn't a men vs. women thing. It happens to both genders. Yes, it happens to women more, but this is a cultural problem that has to be addressed legally from the perspectives of both genders because to say that it only happens to women is simply not true.
I'll admit it. Men are allowed to be topless in photos and no one cares, whereas women aren't. But is that really the most pressing issue feminists of today have to deal with? When they could be using the feminist school of thought, their belief system and their time to bring education to girls who are denied it, or to fight rape in developing countries? Feminism can make a massive change in this world and we're sitting here fighting whether or not an extra 1.5 x 1.5 inches of skin should be on display in public.
We don't live in Iran, it's not like we're forcing women into niqabs and burqas or anything. It's seriously the tiniest bit of skin. Is this really too much clothing to wear:
Because I swear, most girls would have enough difficulty having the confidence to get into bikinis like that let alone show the world their boobs.
This is where people have a problem with today's Western feminists, and (like I said before) where that horrible term "feminazi" comes from. Because rather than using feminism for good, and to bring change to the world by preventing the rape, murder, forced prostitution and human trafficking of women and little girls, we have college girls sitting in a room whinging about how they can't feel they can't get their nipples out, when even if they could (and in a lot of places they can) most of them would be too self-conscious to do it anyway.
All because "oUr soCieTy is So pAtriArcHaL aNd LiKe wE nEeD to sToP thE pAtriaRcHy BecAuSe sOciEty SocIety and oUr sOciEty SociEty in todAy'S soCiety and I thinK SocIeTY Society society society." It's literally fighting for a 'right' that once achieved, 100% of them wouldn't use. Seriously, if toplessness was legalised worldwide and Instagram changed their regulations regarding women's nipples, I can guarantee you, you would celebrate, and then no one would actually do it. Or they'd say "no way, I'm not doing that...I don't want everyone to see my boobs." It is the most pointless movement. The fact that 'activism' is attached to it is a joke.
) have always been and always will be sexualized.