I just read this quote I found on Tumblr to Miles:
“It is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a magazine of a woman without her top on at any 7-11 store. So, you can sell breasts, but you cannot wear breasts, in America.”
He saw nothing wrong with it being illegal for a woman to walk around topless on a stinking hot day, saying it was pornographic that "we don't sell
those kinds of magazines to people who are under-age"
I asked why it wasn't pornographic for guys to walk around topless, he said it was because they don't have boobs.
There are plenty of blokes who have 'moobs' and there are guys whose pec are more titlike than my Mum's
actual tits who get to walk around shirtless in public if they're confident enough to do so. I pointed out that
guys have breast tissue too, it just isn't developed to the same extent as it is in women.
So his point, as I saw it, was void and he needed a better reason to support his position than the old "Girls have boobs and guys don't" reason to say it was "bad" for me to go pick up takeaways with no shirt on, but fine for him to do the exact same thing.
He still maintained that the two situations were two completely different types of beast.
I asked if he thought that Nudist Beaches were pornographic. He said no because it was a "designated area" where you don't take your children if you don't want them to see "it".
I asked if he thought Nudist's
homes were pornographic, since Nudists have kids too. Again he didn't think so.
I asked if he thought breast feeding in public, where underage people can actually
see the boobs being used for what they're THERE for. (I know boobs are pretty too. I try not to see them as sexual objects unless the owner is giving me explicit permission to see them that way)
Again he said no; he thinks breastfeeding isn't pornographic.
I then asked what he thought was wrong with a chick breastfeeding her child on a hot day, then going "Oh fuck it, it's boiling. I can't be arsed putting my top back on, it's too bloody hot for that shit today!" and strolling off, merrily topless and enjoying some skin-contact baby snuggles since they were now venting enough body heat to make it comfortable to do so.
No proper answer. Just blustering about how it is "wrong" and "children could see" and how it is "pornographic" and "wrong".
I changed the subject since no progress was being made and I was getting a headache from trying to comprehend his position.
I find the over-sexualisation of the female body to be fucking annoying, especially when the self-proclaimed 'feminist guy' I'm dating doesn't understand how it is a problem and how every single woman lives in fear of being attacked if we walk down the street dressed in anything morerevealing than a burqa.
And because there are some days when I just really want the luxury of being able to go buy an icecream from the Rob Roy with my mates while wearing only shorts and jandals because it's just too fucking hot to put anything else on.
Every guy in Studentville can do so without fear of repercussion, I don't see why chicks shouldn't be able to as well.
They're just sacks of fat and milk-producing equipment, people. Get over it!
~Peri
