Microblog Memes

For real, this is such a great move. Oh sure, the government could just ban nipples in general, but good luck enforcing that when it gets mildly warm and every scottish man rips their shirt off

Austin actually has a city ordinance with more or less this exact logic. Once you’ve seen a dozen or so average women with their chests uncovered at the pool, it loses any excitement it may have initially held.

Here in Fort Collins, it’s tits out for all. Come all and welcome for those that would like their tits out.

Isn't it technically legal there for women to be topless, too?

Edit: a bit dated, but it seems that they can go topless only in a few state.

I will never in my life ever understand the fight against gay, lesbian, bi, queer, LGBTQ+

One argument is that any (fictional) male can just put on a wig and a dress and enter any "women designated" area.

The people making this argument are usually men and rarely has an actual incident occurred.

(This opinion is based on trying to give Graham Linehan a benefit of doubt)

Conservatives need a demographic to hate. This one is perfect because they will never be Conservatives, and most hardcore Conservatives can't stand to see homosexual PDA.

There's nothing to understand. It's about hate and fear. Conservatives, specifically the alt-right, uses pre-existing prejudices to whip fear into their followers so that they get distracted.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

You can change this to whatever out-group they have chosen:

• Trans-people
• autistic people specifically
• LGBT people
• neurodivergent people
• gay people specifically
• muslims
• non-white people
• black people specifically
• Catholics (if you're protestant)
• Protestant (if your Catholic)
• left handed people

The list literally goes on. All so that their followers get distracted from the people who are picking their pockets.

When gay marriage was being debated here in Australia my sister (who is gay) was super upset the whole time. She talked about how much the fight affected her and wished that people who were against would just understand.

I told her I was a complete supporter of gay marriage for a whole bunch of reasons including:

• human decency
• equality
• people who don't like gay marriage can just... Not get married to another person of the same gender.
• people should just mind their own fucking business

However I did also point out that a lot of the loudest voices against gay marriage literally did not give a flying fuck about the issue, it was a convenient wedge and distraction for them, the people who need a group to vilify for political reasons would have to find another target for persecution as soon as they lost this particular convenient red rag to a bull.

Today in Australia, I believe, the usual suspects who use fear and hatred as the bedrock of their politics have been able to tap into a deeper vein of ignorance to make Trans people that target.

It's the UK supreme court, not a Scottish court, that decided to stomp over all the progress we had made with trans rights.

The Scottish Parliament tends to be considerably more left wing than the UK Parliament. Left to their own devices they would probably be much more like a Scandinavian country.

But actually, yes, the Scottish people are indeed awesome.

I had a look further into this, because I wanted to better understand what factors might cause an act to be considered indecent exposure (or outraging public decency). This led me to some guidance on naturism and other non-sexual nudity, from the crown prosecution service.^1 It appears that having an "intention to cause alarm or distress" may be relevant for protests like this — arguably the entire point of the protest is to use the shock value of the nudity as a protest.

That being said, I think it's a bold move and possibly an effective protest. Even if public indecency laws are gender neutral, it would still be a strong message if any of these women got arrested for this — the reason why these women are capable of causing alarm or distress by going topless is because these are "female presenting nipples" (to use a heavily-memed phrase from the Tumblr porn ban era)

The police in Edinburgh aren't going to do anything. People get their tits 'n' bits out regularly "for art/paganism"

https://beltane.org/about-beltane/