A living edge case. I love it.
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I guess the only solution is to free the nipple
It would have been icing on the cake if trans men would have been in the same protest, also topless, but they weren't censored lol
I mean, cis dudes would work in that context too, no?
Not if the point is to make the government acknowledge their gender.
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SOMETIMES A CHECKMATE IS JUST SO FUCKING POETIC.
Butters: weiners out!
For real, this is such a great move. Oh sure, the government could just ban nipples in general, but good luck enforcing that when it gets mildly warm and every scottish man rips their shirt off
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Fucking Genius
Malicious compliance at its best.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a brilliant catch-22 situation.
Another example of the Scots fighting for freedom .... they've been doing it successfully for thousands of years and they're still doing it!
I will never in my life ever understand the fight against gay, lesbian, bi, queer, LGBTQ+
They are a fraction of the population yet the majority causes them immeasurable harm simply because they exist. The louder they persecute, the more prominent LGBTQ+ movement becomes .... it's contradictory. If conservatives had just left them alone, there would almost be no issue about any of this at all.
There are far more important debates and fights to be had in our society .... namely the fight to preserve the survivability of our species in the coming centuries ... yet here we are fighting about who gets to show or not show their tits!!!!
Conservatives need a demographic to hate. This one is perfect because they will never be Conservatives, and most hardcore Conservatives can't stand to see homosexual PDA.
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Damn, these people are bold as fuck. Get it!
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.
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.
I mow with a long sleeve that’s rated for 15spf, skin cancer is a real concern. Stay safe out there fam
The safety vs comfort rivalry
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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.
In other parts of the world nudity isn't seen as a big deal or in some cases even unusual in certain settings. Americans are so afraid of seeing a titty or penis or whatever else.
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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.
It gets even mader. If you take one step over the border into England, being topless suddenly becomes legal regardless of gender or birth sex.
however it is not an offence for a man or a woman to be topless in England and Wales, so long as the person has not taken off their clothes with the intention of shocking or upsetting others.
Does this mean you can stand on the south side of hadrians wall and wave your titties at the Scots without legal repercussions?
There is even a special ordinances for Newcastle that say that the moment the temperature exceeds 12°C taking your top off becomes mandatory.
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UK Supreme Court:
"We now rule that while men and women are allowed to be topless, this doesn't apply to trans women. Trans women, and only trans women, can be tried for being topless."
Took me a while to even notice they are censored, and not just weird looking
Katy Montgomerie a really good interview with one of the women at the protest: https://youtu.be/wbA0q0eqYnM
Biological women can do it too if they print and cut out pics of men nipples and stick them on top.
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actually proud of Scotland for once, not the government but the people
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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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.
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