Astro-Anarchist

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May 27th, 2012 at 5:05PM

Female toplessness is legal in a lot of places in the US (although not where I live), and I’d be meeting the letter of the law with a couple of Band-aids. But I have a gut feeling that if I go anywhere that there are people—and particularly anywhere there are children—nobody’s going to be too happy about my Band-aids. The enforcement is social; women just don’t go around topless in the US.

It bothers me because it’s unequal, but it also bothers me in its implications: that my body is inherently sexual, and a man’s body isn’t. It feels like men are being viewed through the first-person lens of “it’s nice to feel the sun on my skin, and I don’t mean anything by it” and women are being viewed through the distinctly third-person lens of “it’s inappropriate for me, a heterosexual man, to see her sexy parts.” It ignores the experiences of people who are turned on by male chests and somehow manage to contain themselves when they see one. —

The Pervocracy: My boobs want to be free. (via sexisnottheenemy)

These laws (and accompanying social norms) become even more ridiculous when you think about the fact that there are men who, for whatever reason, have incredibly large chests and faab people (like myself) who have almost no chest, and yet it’s legal (and socially acceptable) for him to be topless and not me. Why? It’s by virtue of the fact that he (presumably) has a penis in his pants and I have a “vagina” in mine. Even though neither of us wants to go around town bottomless it’s still the determining factor and it effectively genders the tissue on my chest no matter what it actually looks like.

Also, notice the cissexism inherent in these laws. What exactly is a “male chest” or a “female chest.” And what happens to trans* people in the grey area of transition or partial transition who have had top surgery (adding or removing tissue) but their id markers don’t necessarily match?

Honestly, ridiculous is the only word to describe such laws.

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