I think it says a lot about our society that we see a 14 year old girl and think...OMG BOOBS SEX. MUST CENSOR.
It's the same argument with breastfeeding in public, boobs weren't created solely for sex, and shouldn't be treated as such. Next thing we know, freckles will be censored because they encourage sun exposure.
Not saying it's impossible, but I've never heard of someone who doesn't have nipples. In fact I only hear of people having more than two.Oh god, no, she has nipples *cue moral outrage*
It's like with people who have problem with little girls running around on the beach wearing only bikini bottoms. If you look at a child and your first thought is "that's sexual", then the problem is with you, not with them.
I'm sick of a society where a girl cannot show her chest even in a completely unprovocative way as in Dior, but we have songs on the radio that are vulgar and explicit about dicks, blowjobs and fucking whores and bitches. How come one is sick and immoral, but the other one is completely fine? Stupid, backwards, misogynist, hypocritical society. I don't have much desire to go around half-naked, but if I wanted to show my chest the same way men can, then I should have the right to do so.
Yeah, I saw it before on some website. It's ridiculous that so many men were saying in comments that it's "completely different" because "women's chest is a sexual area that is arousing and men's nipples are not". It's insane that we form roughly half of the society, and yet nobody asks us what we think. What do we think about half-naked men? Because there is so much criticism regarding us women, but somehow nobody gives a shit if we think a man wearing X is sexually provocative or not. Sorry, but it is proven that nipples are a sexual area both in men and women; and hell, even if they were not, then what? Do men have so little self-control that we as women cannot show them anything even remotely sexual? A huge part of the problem I think is that we give so many excuses to men for their behaviour: she was wearing a short skirt, or he could see her nipples, or she was dressed provocatively. I personally would like to go out on the street without being treated like meat on a display.
The craziest thing to me is that breasts are " sexual" in America because men sexualize them. There are third - world countries where women run around topless (hell, there are french beaches where people run around topless and bottomless) and nobody's like, "Quick! Someone rape her, she's asking for it, I can see her areolas!!" The female breast is not inherently sexual, it's just our culture looking for an excuse to make the female body into an object rather than a human.
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That's why Rummer Willis was running around the streets of NYC topless after being censored on Instagram.
French are so relaxed about being topless, I love that. Even when you go to the beaches of Miami, you can tell the french from the americans: the french will be super cool and topless and the americans will be wearing this massive bikini bottoms.1st. the nipple thing: people act as if it's OKAY for men to be shirtless because it has always been like that.
Well, http://gotopless.org/timeline
In 1935:
In 1936:
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That's why Rummer Willis was running around the streets of NYC topless after being censored on Instagram.
2nd. It's funny how everytime an underage model is exposed in a sexual way everyone goes ballistic. What about the film industry? A 12 year old Natalie Portman in The proffesional (actually, Liv Tyler was considered for that role but was deemed to old... at 15). Jodie Foster as a child prostitute in Taxi Driver. (she was 14). In my opinion, the film and the music industry are so much more intense for young girls than the modelling industry. But no one ever mentions that.
3rd. I once hung out with a group of girls and guys from France. They were all soo cool and we went to the rooftop of a building and went into the jacuzzi. The girls automatically got undressed, without any issues. I loved that. And the guys weren't acting all pervy, like "Ohhhh look at those tits!"
I hope this whole double standards change soon. It's infuriating..
