My Story Part 2
		Top Freedom: A Front-ier in Gender Equity "A fringe of trees lining the beach and the Ocean City-Somers Point Bridge were turned into 'bleachers' from which the motorists enjoyed the scenery. Traffic along the shore road was tied up during the bathing hour…men lurked behind the bushes" You might be thinking this is surely in regards to a nude beach or some swingers club gathering. In actuality it is a newspaper report from 1920's and women dared to wear swimsuits that had no stockings. Before that time, female legs were strictly associated with sexual acts in the minds of most men and women. Eventually the laws were changed and allowed people the opportunity to get passed their notions of propriety and allowed women to expose their legs as men did. Today women are still subject to different rules of propriety than men. This is MyStory. As a young mother I experienced hostility and ridicule when I dared to BREAST feed my child out in public. As I became more aware of people's sensibilities I realized that it was not my breast feeding that offended them. At the root of their objections was the mere possibility that my breast may be exposed by an inopportune breeze, an involuntary movement of my baby's hand or my lack of modesty. I wondered Why? Why could men walk up and down the streets freely top free and yet I could not feed my baby without attracting venomous commentary or being banished to the bathroom to perform that "dirty" task. As months went by I decided that she would no longer be exiled to the bathroom for nourishment and openly breast-fed her wherever she happened to be hungry. Why is it that the breast should cause such distress? Why could my husband mow the lawn without a shirt on and yet I could not. Why are men permitted to be top free without reproach? I believe it is because women's breasts are extremely sexualized. A change in the law that permits women to be topless wherever men are permitted to be topless would not bring on a new Sodom and Gomorra. Men would not suddenly become crazed animals raping women on the streets because of breast exposure. Let me remind you that ALL women would be permitted to be topless. This includes women with fat breasts, women with skinny breasts, women with old sagging, wrinkled breasts, your mother, your girlfriend? Even beautiful perfect breasts will not be as enticing as men once fantasized. The fact is that men would become desensitized to all breasts including the beautiful ones. It is theorized that, like the legs on the New Jersey beach became a part of everyday life, so will the breasts become. It is not that beautiful breasts won't be admired but that there will not be the ridiculous amount of attention drawn to them today. Angelyne is a prime example of the ridicule and the power that breasts draw. Angelyne was simply a woman with big breasts. She has used her breasts to create a name for herself in Hollywood. She had no true talents other than marketing and she used that marketing knowledge when she put up billboards across America which emphasized her very large breasts. She drew so much attention that she was able to eek out a career in Hollywood. Let me point out that her breasts are not completely revealed but alluringly harnessed in a corset to maximize their mystery. The truth is that women's breasts are only held in such high regard because they are mysterious. They are a forbidden fruit only to be revealed in the profile provided by a tight shirt or the sheerness of a blouse or an occasional glimpse at cleavage offered by a deep neckline. Jennifer Lopez has used this strategy in her dress selections for major events. For the Grammy's she wore a dress that had a deep plunge to her navel which only kept her breasts from escaping the shelter of her dress with body tape. For the Oscar's she wore a blouse that was sheer enough for everyone to see every aspect of her breast veiled ever so slightly. The sexuality and the allure in this clothing is that the breast is just out of reach of the naked eye. If breasts were freed from their clothing, they would not have nearly the seductiveness that they do now. In effect they would be de-sexualized. Men would be desensitized and they would no longer be as stimulated by every breast they saw or imagined. Breasts would be no more mysterious than legs have become since the 1920's. I believe that this is why many men object to top freedom. They don't want to lose that mystery associated with the breast because that mystery causes them great pleasure. I think many women don't want top freedom because they don't want to lose the power that the breast gives them. Once revealed breasts have spent their value, the bluff has been called and they are only breasts.
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