Posted on 04/04/2010 12:18:31 PM PDT by Zakeet
About two dozen women took a walk down Congress Street topless Saturday, attracting a large crowd as they tried to preach that partial female nudity is not worthy of attracting a crowd.
The point of the march was that a topless woman out in public should attract no more attention than a man walking around without a shirt on, said Ty MacDowell, 20, of Westbrook, who organized Saturday's event and promoted it on Facebook.
But as the event got under way in Longfellow Square, the marchers were soon outnumbered by scores of onlookers -- mostly young men eagerly snapping away with cameras and cell phones.
MacDowell said she was surprised by the turnout of those interested less in challenging societal convention than in seeing partially undressed women.
"I'm amazed," she said, and "enraged (at) the fact that there's a wall of men watching."
MacDowell said she understood that for women, going topless in public "is not socially acceptable yet, and obviously there's going to be a reaction to something that breaks the norm."
But, she said, the picture-taking was particularly upsetting.
"A lot of people were taking pictures without even asking," she said.
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Egad. And our side’s tea parties are derided for being too uniformly white? My retinas are doubly seared, firstly by the spectacle of all those pudgy libtards walking around without proper vision-blocking clothing, and secondly by the near-unity albedo of this mass of fools.
attention whores..
Well, it’s official. All of mankind’s big problems have now been solved. What else would explain a bunch of people organizing a march so that women can take their shirts off on the two or three days (maximum!) per year when it’s so hot men can’t bear to even wear a T-shirt.
The stupid! It hurts. Going for a Naproxin, maybe two.
I’m going to emulate these women. I’ll put a silk blouse out in the rain and be outraged when it is ruined. Then I’ll leave some raw fish out on the counter and be outraged when the cats eat it. And I’ll really get outraged when I drive into my mailbox and it falls over. Notify the media, for these things will certainly be news too.
IIRC, Maine is still the whitest state in the Union. I went to a high school that had 1,600 students and a grand total of three were non-white.
Who cares about the boobs, back fat rolls are grotesque.
Video of protest at:
http://vimeo.com/10683927
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