It's not about the breastfeeding. In our (admittedly) stoopid society ... it's about the breast.
Until North American society stops placing an emphasis on public violence instead of public nudity, we're going to have this problem.
I find it personally offensive that it's OK for our media outlets to distribute PG and R rated movies and show news clips with corpses, people getting killed, people shooting each other ... yet Janet Jackson's breast pops out during a Super Bowl and people are crying for the fucking death penalty. Hypocritical at best.
And I would agree with you that men shouldn't go topless in restaurants, either. :) I was raised to believe in the "no shoes, no shirt, no service" rule.
Oh. I also agree that our society has a stupid - again, "hypocritical" fits best - fixation on keeping women's breasts covered while allowing men to go topless. This makes about as much sense to me as legalizing alcohol and tobacco while outlawing pot.
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Date: 2007-06-21 09:52 pm (UTC)Until North American society stops placing an emphasis on public violence instead of public nudity, we're going to have this problem.
I find it personally offensive that it's OK for our media outlets to distribute PG and R rated movies and show news clips with corpses, people getting killed, people shooting each other ... yet Janet Jackson's breast pops out during a Super Bowl and people are crying for the fucking death penalty. Hypocritical at best.
And I would agree with you that men shouldn't go topless in restaurants, either. :) I was raised to believe in the "no shoes, no shirt, no service" rule.
Oh. I also agree that our society has a stupid - again, "hypocritical" fits best - fixation on keeping women's breasts covered while allowing men to go topless. This makes about as much sense to me as legalizing alcohol and tobacco while outlawing pot.