- In early August, 33-year-old Phoenix Feeley began a 16-day jail sentence in New Jersey for refusing to pay fines from 2008 when she was arrested for sunbathing topless at a Spring Lake beach. She spent nine days on a hunger strike before being released early from Monmouth County Jail on August 14.
Do you feel that women should be allowed topless in public? And/or that current laws serve to objectify women by placing emphasis on breasts and restricting them from the public, while allowing males to expose theirs in public?
Simple answer as far as I'm concerned. Yes, they should be allowed. I think it's odd when I see anyone in social situations without a shirt on unless they're swimming or exercising, but if a guy can do it, why shouldn't a woman be allowed to? Plus, who doesn't like seeing breasts?
Haven't read the article yet but there was a time when the flash of a bare naked female ankle was enough to give young men high blood pressure and the lady a bad reputation. There was also a time when women danced the can-can without wearing underwear.... Societies sensibilities to what is proper and decent seems to move in cycles.
No person should be restricted to covering anything other than genitals, located between the legs, and the space between the buttocks. By allowing men to run around topless, but banning women the same right, we are saying women's breasts are something unsightly. And when a person is suddenly exposed to them, they are fraught with emotional distress, due to the "brainwashing" that has been bestowed upon them.