Per this article you can walk around NYC as topless as you want to be, yet almost no women do. You need to empower yourselves. Throw off the oppressive bra yoke and be free!
Isn’t it rather cold in New York? Everyone I see there is always wearing layers.
Plus, most women seem to have this aversion to being ogled.
It’s one of those things it’s only fun to do if lots of other people are doing it, and everyone’s used to it.
I have a nudist mentality about bare breasts and would love to be immersed in a culture where nudity wasn’t a big deal, but am I going to expose my boobs (tiny and insignificant as they are) someplace where a vast majority of men have fetishized areola because they only ever have seen or thought of breasts in sexual contexts, and people will gape at me or even worse, say something to me? Hell no.
Ah, horny guys on the dope trying to veil their hornyness in terms of freedom and liberty. Makes me chuckle every time a thread like this pops up. 
I’m guessing if they did it wouldn’t be anyone one you’d wanna see haha.
Women will start going topless in Manhattan (hmm… movie title?) when the reaction to them is the stereotypical NYC “What, you expect me to be impressed? Get out of my way” equivalent to the reaction to a dude w/o a shirt.
(Really, what percentage of *males *in NYC walk around barechested as a routine thing? You see some runners, a few street performers – e.g. the Naked Cowboy–, dudes playing in the park or on the basketball courts, ocassionally some guy in a mesh shirt or the vest-no-shirt look:rolleyes:, but really you don’t see that much of male upper bodies, either. Even men doing hard work no longer go barechested because it’s actually safer to have a shirt on.)
Until that day, alas, you’ll just have to spring for the $10 lunch special at Rick’s 
Don’t be a sheeple. Be free.
Pssst…I’m a guy.
I know, I’m talking about your body shame mindset. Throw off that yoke!
Who says I have a “body shame mindset”?
My point is be honest. You want to see topless women cause it turns you on. It has nothing to do with freedom or empowerment. 
Can’t it be both?
Women, empower yourselves by turning me on!
Doesn’t seem right somehow.
Sometimes a breast is just a breast, a floppy, sweaty, fat filled meat sack that could do with some sun and fresh air. Think about how good it feels to take off your faded ironic band T-shirt and run giggling through the backyard lawn sprinkler feeling the cool water spraying on your hairy man boobs.
Don’t deny that visceral pleasure to women. Eschew the oppressive patriarchal conventions. Let them be free too.
Ohhhhhkaaaayyyyy…:dubious:
You do realize that **astro **is writing tongue-in-cheek here? I’m just not sure that’s where it would stay if women followed his suggestions.
Personally, I spent too much time rolling the twins into my bra to let them get away with wandering free now. And really, who wants to deal with all the catcallers shouting nasty things about potentially less-than ideal shape, size, and proportion?
Please note that this says Rochester, New York, which is far removed from New York City (It’s about a four hour drive. Even New Yorkers often don’t realize how far away it is). Rochester has always had a powerful feminist movement (the 19th century Feminist movement started up in upstate New York). When the University of Rochester showed the movie a Boy and his Dog, they protested, something which brought in Harlan Ellison himself to debate them. They’re suspected of phoning in a bomb threat to stop a showing of the movie the Story of O, and they had a “consciousness raising” session when the film was finally shown. They supported a lot of women-oriented businesses and art in the City. And they promoted legal toplessness in Rochester, doing things like removing their tops at concerts and the like.
It was mainly about the legality and the right to do so (if men could go to the beach topless, why not women?), and not so much about actually doing so, or wanting to do so. In my time in Rochester, I never saw any women topless in public.
So if they didn’t do it up there in Rochester, where they fought for the right and were committed to it, and had a large organized cadre in support of toplessness, do you think they’d be any more willing in the less fortified city of New York? Going topless would be even more likely to be viewed not as a show of female equality and empowerment, and more as a sign of flightiness, loose morals, or pandering to male fantasies.
so I wouldn’t count on seeing much female toplessness in the Big Apple. Not unless you know the women well, or are paying for it.
Possibly I’m mis-reading, but per the references in the article it appears to be a State Court ruling not specific to just one city.
For the record, I’ve never seen a topless woman in public anywhere in the Rochester area.