"Some provinces of Canada [permit women to go topless,] including: British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario (where equality has been tested and upheld several times)". - GoTopless.org
See an appeal later permitting women to go topless in Ontario here.
See other cases here.
"Gotopless supports Slut Walk
Are women "sluts" because they stand for their Topless rights ???
The affiliates of Gotopless.org have been closely following the developments of the Slutwalk Movement since its inception and we embrace it 100%! This is how the worldwide Slut Protest began: a Canadian police officer advised women "to avoid dressing as sluts" if they did not want to be harassed.
Our plight for Constitutional equality in topless rights, we are encountering "moral" opposition on the basis that women's breasts in public may arouse sexual desire and therefore must be duly outlawed at all cost! (Of course, what part of the woman's body is not likely to arouse sexual desire, suggesting that a burqa would be the best alternative to barrage all sexual provocation!) This legal battle to go topless in public is "naturally" associated with the plight of "sluts" by repressed minds who have a pathologically distorted view of sexuality, of the human body in general.
And so Gotopless is truly looking forward to joining the Slutwalk Protest where people made peace with the fact that women come with an inherent sensuality ((as men do) that may indeed arouse sexual desire no matter their body shape or type of dress. It is high time to come to terms with the fact that the puritanically branded "slut" is simply a woman, a dignified human being whose sensual human attributes deserve the same praise and respect as her intellectual ones.
We look forward to your presence at a Slutwalk protest near you, and of course at National Gotopless day on August 21 2011.
Breast wishes,
Nadine Gary
President of Gotopless.org"
Our plight for Constitutional equality in topless rights, we are encountering "moral" opposition on the basis that women's breasts in public may arouse sexual desire and therefore must be duly outlawed at all cost! (Of course, what part of the woman's body is not likely to arouse sexual desire, suggesting that a burqa would be the best alternative to barrage all sexual provocation!) This legal battle to go topless in public is "naturally" associated with the plight of "sluts" by repressed minds who have a pathologically distorted view of sexuality, of the human body in general.
And so Gotopless is truly looking forward to joining the Slutwalk Protest where people made peace with the fact that women come with an inherent sensuality ((as men do) that may indeed arouse sexual desire no matter their body shape or type of dress. It is high time to come to terms with the fact that the puritanically branded "slut" is simply a woman, a dignified human being whose sensual human attributes deserve the same praise and respect as her intellectual ones.
We look forward to your presence at a Slutwalk protest near you, and of course at National Gotopless day on August 21 2011.
Breast wishes,
Nadine Gary
President of Gotopless.org"
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Now, I'm going to put my two cents in. Yes, I understand that this is a battle for gender equality (and from what I understand, it's the same thing as men: you can only go topless as long as you're not bottomless), but sometimes I wonder if the North American society is ready for this. In Europe, I'm sure there's no problem, but here in North America... I don't think we're there yet. After all, we are the ones who freaked and continue to freak over Janet Jackson's exposée at the Super Bowl with Justin Timberlake back in the early 2000s! I don't know... And I am not sure, personally, if I am confident enough not just in this society, but in my own body to do this... But, if you are one of those people with no qualms about it, then go for it! (As long as it's legal in your area, of course... Geographically speaking).
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