this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
1939 points (98.8% liked)

Microblog Memes

7673 readers
2607 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 36 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Trust me when I say this: none of the right-wing media/politicians, will understand that they've made any points on behalf of the protestors by blurring the "men's" nipples.

Also, saying men can go around topless but not women, is sexist. Any such law should be removed. We should all be equal in the eyes of the law. With that said: that shouldn't imply that women should go around topless. It should just be legally allowed. I'm a guy, but I don't think I need to explain to anyone the potential complications from going around topless as a woman... Whether trans or not.

The whole situation is dumb. Society needs to do better. We're all people. Let's keep that in mind and treat everyone the same, based on the fact that they are a human person in society. No legal separation of sex, gender, race, religion, or anything else. If you are a human person, you should have the same rights and freedoms as every other human person.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 30 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I'm a guy, but I don't think I need to explain to anyone the potential complications from going around topless as a woman... Whether trans or not.

It's normal and fairly mundane for men to go topless in virtually all societies, however, there are a good number of cultures where it is also normal for women to be topless. If it is normal and mundane for women to be topless, then it becomes a non-issue eventually. It's only racy because we're trained in our culture to find it racy.

[–] JulieLemming@lemm.ee 1 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

True, however we are also trained to be everything. Literally whole law, moral system and everything about human society is subjective and made up. Should we pursue to deconstruct this subjectivity? No it is what allows us to function. However we should pursue equality in an egalitarian sense of every member of society.

Our subjective and made up rules should be equal for all members of the society and where they cannot be because they meet biological objectivity there they need to be humane and in best interest of the person in light of law so that the person can live with dignity and possess full autonomy unless judged to be stripped away from such

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

In the late 90s or early aughts here in Canada women challenged and won the right to go topless as well as men. I can't recall seeing in person any women exercising that right myself, and it won't surprise me if the religions conservatives here have managed to overturn that directly or indirectly, but as a teenager/young adult i thought it was cool at the time that Canada fixed that inequality

Didn't really have a point here just felt like sharing

[–] Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 hours ago

OH! Finally! A chance to use my knowledge acquired from scrolling wikipedia while procrastinating! That law hasn't been overturned and is still, well, law. Of course every once in a while some clueless cop (because why should somebody enforcing the law, know the law sigh) will ask a topless sunbather to cover up. Here's the article.

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Is it illegal for women to be topless?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. That seems sexist.

Free the nipple.

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world -2 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

Genuine question, how is it sexist? Is their no acknowledgment of biological differences between men and women as a general rule (trans issues being more of an exception to the rule)? We acknowledge differences in general in regards to sports, bathrooms, fitting rooms, the way clothes are made, people’s consumption of pornography, magazines and media. Why on this point are we ignoring that all of those things ls are real and happen and pretending there’s no difference?

[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 1 points 35 minutes ago

Men and women both have nipples. The difference is that women might need to pull them put to feed a baby. If we want to treat them differently, should it not be reversed?

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

The only reason to cover women's nipples is because the gender in power may have hormonal changes that they are unwilling to control.

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I’m sorry I’m not following. What’s the “gender in power?” Is that societal or the individual?

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

The patriarchy

[–] LastOneSitting@lemmy.wtf 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Because the sexualization of the female nipple is the only reason it is illegal to bare it in public. There is no universal or biological reason to ban it, just a cultural conditioning.

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yes, I guess what I’m asking is are we pretending that this “conditioning” isn’t a real thing? I also read recently (sorry if this is wrong) that there was a study done on arousal of breasts between societies where they are covered up vs where they are not. It found the level of arousal remained consistent.

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 1 points 20 minutes ago* (last edited 19 minutes ago)

Yes, I guess what I’m asking is are we pretending that this “conditioning” isn’t a real thing? I also read recently (sorry if this is wrong) that there was a study done on arousal of breasts between societies where they are covered up vs where they are not. It found the level of arousal remained consistent.

Why wouldn't having to deal with that arousal be the problem and responsibility of the aroused instead of, by default and preemtively, limiting the rights of any prospective and involuntary "arousee" in existence?

[–] Nounka@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Why should a nipple be hidden only if it is a female one. Why would man have the right to walk without t-shirts and woman be punished for the same walk?

Yet imo it should be the other way. Males need to cover up to. Lets see how fast they start complaining.

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I think there’s less of a need for men to cover up. That not to say I don’t agree with your point entirely. While shirtless men do seem to arouse women and gay men, correct me if if wrong, it’s seems like it’s more of a overall thing, where with women the arousal is mostly centred around the breasts themselves and the nipples.

I think it’s also more appropriate to say feminine breasts, I know this opinion can vary person to person but most people can agree man boobs generally don’t excite people, it’s the muscle and tone that women find attractive. This can apply to feminine breasts but I think it’s generally more accepted that they are more likely to arouse or at least be interesting.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There are differences, but there is no need for different rules.

Can you, or are you willing to, say outright, why it should be illegal?

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Because I think having breasts is different to not having them and that human arousal and disgust (may be a strong word) is real and that as a general rule it’s appropriate and even beneficial to exclude the extremes of these things from day to day life unless the individual wants to opt in. I suppose a line has to be drawn somewhere and given that there is a real reaction across most of society it’s a reasonable place to draw it.

[–] Sausa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 hours ago

Katy Montgomerie a really good interview with one of the women at the protest: https://youtu.be/wbA0q0eqYnM

[–] EySkibidiBabBab@feddit.dk 50 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

A living edge case. I love it.

[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 hours ago

I guess the only solution is to free the nipple

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 8 points 12 hours ago

Took me a while to even notice they are censored, and not just weird looking

[–] Maximumbird@lemm.ee 53 points 19 hours ago

Fucking Genius

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I cannot imagine being a cop in this country the laws are just totally arbitrary and you'd have to enforce them even though they make zero sense.

[–] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It gets even mader. If you take one step over the border into England, being topless suddenly becomes legal regardless of gender or birth sex.

however it is not an offence for a man or a woman to be topless in England and Wales, so long as the person has not taken off their clothes with the intention of shocking or upsetting others.

https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/616538

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

There is even a special ordinances for Newcastle that say that the moment the temperature exceeds 12°C taking your top off becomes mandatory.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

Am Newcastle. Can confirm.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 136 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

It would have been icing on the cake if trans men would have been in the same protest, also topless, but they weren't censored lol

yeah, but they could have been arrested

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 29 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

To many in alt right groups, trans men don't exist.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, cis dudes would work in that context too, no?

[–] null@slrpnk.net 12 points 9 hours ago

Not if the point is to make the government acknowledge their gender.

[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 88 points 23 hours ago

Malicious compliance at its best.

[–] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 66 points 23 hours ago

Damn, these people are bold as fuck. Get it!

[–] wolfrasin@lemm.ee 155 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Legendary behavior. Bigots can choke on it

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

A lot of them do.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 109 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a brilliant catch-22 situation.

load more comments
view more: next ›