# Women going topless may cause society to collapse **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627 "2016-03-01T13:04:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/21 "2016-03-01T17:43:09Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > It’s been legal in New York since 1992. So apparently it’s a slow collapse. (It’s taking longer than we thought) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/22 "2016-03-01T17:51:45Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > It sounds like the same lame-ass “slippery slope” argument they use against gay marriage. If you let them do this, then next it will be this and this… and where will it end? If I’m going to die on a slippery slope, Kate Upton’s suntan-lotioned breasts are the ones I’d choose. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/23 "2016-03-01T17:55:38Z")
This quote from the article seems particularly obtuse.🙂 > [@](#): > > Exposed nipples would also harm the state’s tourism industry, they argued. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/24 "2016-03-01T17:57:51Z")
Be careful what you wish for. I’ve seen enough women’s breasts to know that a considerable number of women should not go topless. Although I agree with\*\* AHunter3\*\*. There are a considerable number of men who should keep their shirts on, probably including me. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/25 "2016-03-01T17:59:07Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > If they’re serious all they need to do is make it illegal for anyone to go topless. I’m sure all the malebodied people will have no problem wearing t-shirts or equivs to the beach if the alternative is social collapse. As a person in the deep south that has a few (cough) big, hairy assed beer bellied rednecks…lets just say I could get behind this. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/26 "2016-03-01T19:44:38Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > If I’m going to die on a slippery slope, Kate Upton’s suntan-lotioned breasts are the ones I’d choose. nah, suntan lotion tastes terrible ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/27 "2016-03-01T21:02:32Z")
> [@CoastalMaineiac](#): > > Seriously, in a state as cold as New Hampshire, are there that many women who would want to be walking around topless that this should even be an issue?😕 Sometimes a girl just needs an icepick. Or two. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/28 "2016-03-01T21:19:34Z")
Let women dress the way they want. If its warm enough, they’ll probably wear things from column A and if it gets cold enough, they’ll probably wear things from column B. As a guy, my sole job in the matter is to make sure that I have the self control not to look. (Its been a while, I know, but I’m pretty sure its impossible for a woman to accidentally turn too fast in a doorway and accidentally break one off. Even if she was in a revolving door, if her hand slipped off the push-bar about the worst think that would happen is her saying, “Damn, that glass is cold.”) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/29 "2016-03-01T22:55:06Z")
I understand the risks, but I think we have to try. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/30 "2016-03-02T00:28:36Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > You gotta wonder about the mental state of someone who uses the term ‘reckless disregard’ in connection to the idea of being exposed to bare breasts. The abject terror that women’s bodies apparently inspire in male Republicans is a neverending source of WTF. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/31 "2016-03-02T00:36:24Z")
I am not convinced that Republicans are _terrified_ of women’s bodies, just disgusted by them. Men _and_ women Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/32 "2016-03-02T00:39:50Z")
No hats? Que barbaridad! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/33 "2016-03-02T00:43:13Z")
> [@CoastalMaineiac](#): > > I presume, to comply with equal protection laws, it will also be illegal for men to go topless, correct? I hope so. Ain’t nobody wanna see that. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/34 "2016-03-02T02:00:59Z")
The women of the ancient Minoan civilization, on the island of Crete, wore open blouses that exposed their breasts - [1](http://www.dollhousebettie.com/images/b/blog/posts/auto/36/r/Snake_goddess41.jpg), [2](http://www.dollhousebettie.com/images/b/blog/posts/auto/36/r/Minoan-palace-scene.jpg), [3](http://www.costume.org/gallery2/d/64174-4/PSP_C016_12_014_002.jpg) (NSFW) - and it never did them any harm. What’s that you say…? Their civilization destroyed by a tsunami…? Oh… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/35 "2016-03-02T02:18:03Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > The women of the ancient Minoan civilization, on the island of Crete, wore open blouses that exposed their breasts - [1](http://www.dollhousebettie.com/images/b/blog/posts/auto/36/r/Snake_goddess41.jpg), [2](http://www.dollhousebettie.com/images/b/blog/posts/auto/36/r/Minoan-palace-scene.jpg), [3](http://www.costume.org/gallery2/d/64174-4/PSP_C016_12_014_002.jpg) (NSFW) - and it never did them any harm. > > What’s that you say…? Their civilization destroyed by a tsunami…? Oh… Poseidon wanted a closer look. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/36 "2016-03-02T04:02:35Z")
I’m curious how many states have laws against nudity? I’d guess nearly all of them but haven’t found any information. Then there are local laws too that would apply. I know there are a few nude beaches in a few states. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/37 "2016-03-02T04:36:03Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > This quote from the article seems particularly obtuse.🙂 > > > [@](#): > > > > Exposed nipples would also harm the state’s tourism industry, they argued. You’d think they’d know better living so close to Brattleboro. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/38 "2016-03-02T04:37:56Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > The women of the ancient Minoan civilization, on the island of Crete, wore open blouses that exposed their breasts - [1](http://www.dollhousebettie.com/images/b/blog/posts/auto/36/r/Snake_goddess41.jpg), [2](http://www.dollhousebettie.com/images/b/blog/posts/auto/36/r/Minoan-palace-scene.jpg), [3](http://www.costume.org/gallery2/d/64174-4/PSP_C016_12_014_002.jpg) (NSFW) - and it never did them any harm. > > What’s that you say…? Their civilization destroyed by a tsunami…? Oh… You see?!!? A legiTITimate reason to build a time machine. None of that killing your granddad stuff! ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/39 "2016-03-02T08:54:36Z")
When I first read the OP, I actually checked the date to see if it was a zombie thread… from 1925. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-going-topless-may-cause-society-to-collapse/747627/40 "2016-03-02T10:17:36Z")
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