Organizers with the cheekily named “Equalititty” and GoTopless groups walked about with a simple proposition: In 2024, there isn’t a particularly good reason to bar women from taking their shirts off entirely in the summer heat wherever men are allowed to do the same.
What is the point of being dismissive of parent’s concerns and straight up misrepresenting what they said in the last “quote”?
I’m in favor of making the law gender neutral, and quickly without having answers to all these questions.
Doesn’t mean there won’t be unintended consequences that aren’t worth discussing to get ahead of them.
My gut reaction is if its legal in public does that make it legal in the media? Will publishers and advertisers use this to further objectify women? Even though I’m asking these questions, I’m 100% in favor of gender neutral laws for media and advertisements.
My off the cuff and likely unrealistic solution that has nothing to do with gender is to just ban most forms of advertising out right. This includes never requiring users to make the “choice” to agree to any ads in the terms of services in order to access goods and services (e.g., gas pumps, accessing a bank account, etc.).
I’m actually down with banning ads. not for this, but, like, if that’s what gets you on board, I’m so fucking in, let’s do this.