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[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 138 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Tits censored, guess they are women then. Fuck the transphobes

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 116 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 102 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Biological women can do it too if they print and cut out pics of men nipples and stick them on top.

[–] HakunaHafada@lemm.ee 96 points 1 week ago

Malicious compliance at its best.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 91 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll always remember this one time in the 1990s when my family and I were watching some medical documentary on cable TV. There was footage of a trans woman getting top surgery, and they showed the medical details and cutting of her uncovered chest with no problem, but the instant the breast implant was slipped beneath the patient's skin they blurred out the nipple because it became unsuitable for unedited broadcast at that moment.

i think about that moment a lot.

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 79 points 1 week ago (4 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 73 points 1 week ago (8 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.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week 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

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[–] zanyllama52@infosec.pub 70 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

In America most men are overweight or obese and have pendulous lumps on their chests with nipples attached. Personally I don't love seeing them, but when the weather is right, they are all over the goddamn place. It's absolutely ludicrous that women can't do the same. If there were any logical rule it would be don't show your chesticles unless you are a woman who uses them for feeding a child OR everybody gets to have their tits out regardless of any gender types. Pick one and go with it, but the current laws are base AF.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

When I was in pre-K, on a really hot day, I remember asking why the boys got to take off their shirts but I couldn’t.

Now that I’ve had top surgery, I can be the fat hairy bearded guy that mows lawns shirtless. It’s nice.

[–] PagPag@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I mow with a long sleeve that’s rated for 15spf, skin cancer is a real concern. Stay safe out there fam

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] EySkibidiBabBab@feddit.dk 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A living edge case. I love it.

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[–] Maximumbird@lemm.ee 60 points 1 week ago

Fucking Genius

[–] grue@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

Hmm...

spoiler


Pretty sure it's just a bug in the federation of images between blahaj.zone and lemmy.world, but it was a funny coincidence.

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Love the message, but the blurb isn't correct. Police couldn't not arrest them because it would define them as a woman, outraging public decency and similar laws don't require specific genders.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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)


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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

actually proud of Scotland for once, not the government but the people

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago (5 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.

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[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is it illegal for women to be topless?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago (54 children)

Yeah. That seems sexist.

Free the nipple.

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[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not to get sidetracked but what is the significance of the red right arms? Scots burn quickly in sunlight but not usually in such an isolated way.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On Saturday (17 May) the women stood outside the Scottish parliament building with their shirts off and their arms painted red, which they said was a mark of solidarity with anti-fascist feminists across Europe.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/17/scottish-parliament-holyrood-trans-protest-supreme-court/

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