Comments on: Cassidy Speaks on Breasts and Equality

By: bil

bil — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:52:46 +0000

I don’t consider myself an actual socialist,but am fairly tolerant,not sure how interesting,but certainly interested.I am pretty sure I am as converted as possible,but time will tell.(I may revert,that is a form of conversion)More offended by lime-green ricers than topless or trashy women.Try not to ‘guess’ too often,especially with politics.Trashy or classy is in the mind of the beholder.Or in Keene,the beholders mother. —bil

By: MaineShark

MaineShark — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:29:41 +0000

You “guess?”

That’s a bit different from the absolute statement you just made.

If we go a few more lines, how much will you have diluted it?

I’ll flip it around and say that almost no one except sexists would think that.

As I’ve already pointed out, lots of folks have no problem with topless women, and many of them are stumbling in the dark when it comes to politics, supporting leftists because it’s “cool.” If folks who are /not/ socialists can show that they are tolerant and interesting, there can be some conversions.

By: Brodie

Brodie — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:25:30 +0000

I would guess most people would think women who are out in public topless are trashy (i.e. not classy).

By: MaineShark

MaineShark — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:26:58 +0000

Who looks trashy?

By: Brodie

Brodie — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:21:24 +0000

How looking trashy will help liberty is beyond me.

By: MaineShark

MaineShark — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:16:39 +0000

And what if it convinces some folks that libertarians aren’t just about “guns, drugs, and property rights,” and makes them open their minds a bit, because a group of libertarians hit on an issue they care about?

If they then listen to us about the war, is that a win or a loss?

By: david

david — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:17:45 +0000

I find the whole thing a rather disturbing waste of time considering the war against freedom and liberty that is being waged by a government run amock, and I’m not speaking only of the police state, I speak of the war machine which has killed two million people from Iraq and Afghanistan. Have you seen “collateral damage” (from wikileaks)? There’s a very disturbing lack of interest within the mainstream populace, a willful indifference to each succeeding atrocity committed by our troops that needs to be
focused upon, and examined and brough into the light, so we can re-learn a proper response to such abominations. We have been brainwashed (and probably drugged). Their is a domineering and deceitful group of elites, who delight in our ignorance. Back to your regularly scheduled “program”.

By: Tonedeaf Troll

Tonedeaf Troll — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:12:30 +0000

I think I offended someone at work talking about breast cancer. But I was wrong to ask her about it, she’s got a right to medical privacy too. But I dont think that’s what upset her.

Well, anyway, this is gonna be an uphill battle on all fronts. This perception is heavily ingrained in people’s minds. Maybe people might not think it’s worth all that effort. Maybe they think the world’s not ready for this, but you cant wait for the world to change, you gotta be the change. And that’s what you’re doing. Big props.

By: bil

bil — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:56:54 +0000

Yes,that would also muddy the waters.And I am not saying do not do either of these things.It is not my place since this is not my personal form of protest.But too many issues all at once confuses people,and when confused,I think most will stay with the status quo,it is not confusing.So yes,I do think that carrying a gun,smoking pot,and topless women on the common doesn’t advance any of these issues.It also tends to tie each together,which confuses also.I am not confused or offended personally,but I do know there is a fairly general feeling of confusion in the general populace in the Keene area.Yes,I live here,and yes,I do get out and see what the general population thinks.Thanks. —bil

By: d

Mon, 17 May 2010 21:51:25 +0000

Stimulating article Cass (intellectual stim, at least for me).

Yet I fear that tho protest too much. You’ve made more that few generalization concerning gender, albeit challenging ones.

That said, i do enjoy a good gender-bending discussion.

Fundamentally, you’re correct, breast are not such a big deal. But your explanations concerning the general ‘taboo’ against exposed female breasts in public are NOT universal. (and how can they be any society with greater than a few people.)

That is, people believe different things for different reasons, sometimes people are not even sure WHY they feel or believe a certain way, which as you point out is usually the result of social conditioning.

That said, its clear your bare breasted activism is more about how you feel about the status of women and their breasts than simply trying to agitate from a position of having anti-social attitudes. (hopefully that shuts up some of the nay-sayers)

Good to see you setting the record straight as to the who-is and what-fors behind the topless activism. (of course we could all do w/o the name calling at the end)

Just one man’s opinion.