The legal dispute began in 2016 when Ginger Pierro did her yoga exercises topless at a lakeside beach in Laconia, New Hampshire, and was arrested for violating the city ordinance banning public nudity. It banned, among other things,"the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering any part of the nipple."
The New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected their challenge, acknowledging that the law treats men and women differently. But the sexes"are not fungible" with respect to the traditional understanding of what constitutes nudity. Public exposure of the female breast"almost invariably conveys sexual overtones," the state court said. Most lower courts have come to the same conclusion.
DUMB 🤮
Free the nipple ladies should start demanding equality in whose drafted. Don't stop at nipples. There are many other laws that treat men and women differently, because they are different lol
It's one of those things that sounds good in theory but doesn't translate from fantasy to reality well.
Can we please address car insurance next? Shouldn't be charged more simply for being a man.
Turn around woman!!
Men and women ARE different. And their bodies need to be treated differently for a variety of reasons. That said, I'm pro topless women.
Booo!!!'👎👎
They should look up 'Gwen's Law' in Ontario, Canada.
I know there’s an apparent double standard (no pun intended, although it’s a good one) but why would women want to parade around topless anyway? The beach is the only scenario I can think of
North Americans = prudes
Human being are conscience and social living thing who fell shy. It’s about socially living together.
Another group with no common sense. What's next, men going 'bottomless'.
Not until you ‘see’ it and find it offensive to watch.
The ones you want to free the nipple aren’t the ones who free the nipple...
Kavanaugh! WTF! beachweek
I'd rather everyone wear shirts in public.
If nobody getting harmed or infected, it should be a-ok.
Truckers applaud.😂
Nipples must be secured to protect against inadvertent milk shots to the eye
I have absolutely no problem with women running around topless... let them breath lady’s!
Good
i, for one, would love to see young and beautiful women walking naked in public... don’t u?
DUPES! The vote is remove the BAN so the ladies can hang loose 🤙
Who has a problem with this?
Why do other women WANT to go topless, I don’t! I don’t want boobs hanging to my knees because I never wear a bra/shirt.
Hey, find a bunch of man-boobed men and trot them out to the beach topless. freethenipple
mattmurphyshow Seriously though, what do you think you’ll see at this beach. I’ll pass
mattmurphyshow I think it all depends on how you look at it . As in chest level, or at the knees.
I’m sue kavanaugh was interested
Must be bored, first stepping into a settled case from the Appellate Court for their friend the President and now nipples. Our tax dollars at work.
Imagine a bunch of guys voting so they get to see boobs for free - no cover change, fee, OR dinner/bar tabs to pay.
The highest-profile advocates against women going topless in public like men do, tend to be fundamentalist Christian groups and other organizations which use a religious justification as their only rational for the defense of their argument.
It's about religion.
Then the topless leftist women will scream they are being 'sexually harassed' by men looking at them. More whackiness from the mentally disturbed liberals.
Tbh there’s a lot of fellas out there I’d like to see cover up as well.
Ok that's bullshit. And I'm a Conservative. As long as they're 18+, I don't see the issue. It's nipples -- not pubic genitalia. BTW what this means is the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of 3 women arrested and fined for being topless.
Do circumcision next!! i2
Ya because this is so restrictive for women. They are oppressed I tell ya
🙄🙄
Does it count if the husband needs a bigger bra than his wife?
'I'm taking my shirt off, but don't you dare look at me!'
Yay! More opportunities for men to objectify women. Thank you feminism
Only free the nipple, than that would not really be topless... And another point, we should be equal but are different.. Whoever said that was a bad thing. Oh wait☝️☝️☝️ a long history of western culture as we know it today called society.. WomensRights freethenipple
Well when men start breast feeding Babies and their nips spark desire in a person then they can ban men for being topless.
ONLY BOOBS EXPOSE THE GOODS? DUMB ON PURPOSE?
With all the homeless drug addicts on our streets how could this go wrong.
STOP!!
Women...lead... future... world...9999999999...Ram ram...
We freed the nip in Ontario Canada years ago and no one was hurt or maimed in the process. We call it choice.....
Ever been to a nude beach? You wanna go because your expectations are high. Then you get there and you realize that it’s not what you thought it would be. Point: Things aren’t what they seem.
Toronto removed the ban long ago and women been free to let nipples fly, but ya just dont see it it happen. Think it's more a play on someone needing attention pushing the fight, than the need for women to go topless.
SOLUTION: identify as a man... seems to work for men and women’s restrooms... 😂😂😂
But men and women are different.
Is this because they are afraid of how RBG might show up to work that day?
Would you want your child’s kindergarten teacher to teach class topless or naked? Let’s stop acting like the decency we are all used to is some sort of oppressive convention. Otherwise there’s literally no line to be drawn for a balanced, practical accepted morality in society
Lol can’t wait for all the creepy dudes to find out about this. You’ll all want to toss a shirt on then😂
“Free the nipple” is pretty cheesy. But I’d side with them before I would side with the burkas for boobs crowd.
I am good with women being topless. If men can do it women should too.
How come if you touch a woman's breasts she accuses you of sexual harassment? You cannot have it both ways, either female breasts are sexual or they are not.
Well, we are different so that’s not crazy. It does treat us the same in the sense that it is banning both of us from showing our sexual/reproductive parts. These godless women are fools.
How come this article is only showing this women’s back? NBC News must think women’s breast are nasty even after their own article says otherwise.
It’s legal in Canada, but few (if any) women stroll around topless in the park
This is routine all over Europe and I don't think any of their children have died from it.
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