Why do feminists support choice, as long as it's their choice?

Question

They want it to be illegal for YOU to take YOUR shirt off in public because THEY don't approve. I thought feminism was about choice?

Answer 1

I didn't see the other comment but feminists (some feminists) simply want equality when it comes to shirt laws.  We want to be able to go topless where men are allowed topless.  And IF the law is not changed, we ask that it only be FAIR and allow both parties the SAME treatment--meaning either both parties can take their shirts off or both parties have to keep them on.

Its only fair and equal.

EDIT-- Thanks.  After seeing your question, I went and posted on the question you were talking about.  I agree that her opinion was very one sided and unfair.  We shouldn't shun equality just because it makes someone uncomfortable.

Answer 2

Really?  Typically it is more conservative people who want women to keep their shirts on.  From what I have observed here, it is feminists who believe b*****s are not sexual organs.

Answer 3

Word of the day: Joke. Used in a sentence: "Misanthrope was making a joke when she suggested creating a Put Your Friggin Shirt Back On Day in response to Topless Day." Used in another sentence: "The idea that a majority of women want to be topless in public is a joke."

EDIT: While I agree that the right to be topless in public should be there, I seriously doubt that many women will want to take advantage of it.

Answer 4

This isn't about freedom of choice. It's about you as a man wanting to be able to see women's b*****s.

I don't think anyone should have the choice to be naked in public. I don't want to see some woman's b*****s any more than I want to see moobs. Public indecency is illegal for a good reason.

Answer 5

Does this apply to places like swimming pools and beaches? If so, com-on....it's obvious why there are certain rules applied to apparel. Guys can swim without a shirt and still be decent because they don't have sexual organs displayed. If men had their sexual organ on their head, i think the laws would be that they would have to wear hats, while women wouldn't have to. Silly, i know, but practical.....like law.

Answer 6

'Cause they don't want their kids blinded because of some people's man b***s or beer bellies. if that's what you mean.

also they don't want little jannie running around main st. topless

feminism is about choice.  I don't care if a woman wants to be topless but just don't do it in front of me,

I'm not going to be the one that's getting black eyes.

Answer 7

This is an "issue"?

LOL.

Yet another example of why MRA's aren't taken seriously.

Answer 8

Things should remain the way they are. I don't want to have to see women's b***s in public. I think you worry about getting to see women's b***s more than you worry about women's rights. But the bad news for you is, I've had many men tell me that on a nude beach they get used to seeing them real quick and the thrill vanishes. It's like a kid  loving ice cream, if he gets it all the time he gets bored with it.