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Title: #FreeTheNipple: This Bikini Top Sticks Two Fingers Up To Censorship
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HuffPo UK
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201 ... fcbklnkushpmg00000046&ir=Women
Published: Jun 27, 2014
Author: Rachel Moss
Post Date: 2014-06-27 17:29:57 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 3844
Comments: 47
Head to a beach this summer and you might see a bunch of women walking around with their nipples on show. But, before you drop your ice-cream cone on the floor and gawk, know that all may not be as it first seems. The women may very well be sporting the new TaTa Top - a bikini top with two pink nipples emblazoned onto the cups. At first glance the top may seem like some hilarious prank, but dig slightly below the surface and its creators have a distinctly more feminist agenda. While men are free to walk shirtless as they please, being topless if you're a woman is illegal in some American states. With that in mind the bizarrely realistic garment has been created in order to tackle the lack of gender equality when it comes to bearing all. On their website the makers of the bikini, Robyn Graves and Michelle Lytle, write: "Why can’t girls be topless? If you really think about it, what’s the difference between a man’s nipples and a woman’s? Is it really just the extra breast tissue? Is it the fact that women’s nipples are paired with a vagina? "Is it the presence of a real and true female nipple bare to the world that is so offensive, that is so horrid that it must be kept covered? "Who is this law protecting and what are they protecting them from? What message does it send to young women about their bodies? That they should be ashamed and keep them covered?" Although not directly associated, the bikini hits (online) shelves in the wake of the #FreeTheNipple movement. The campaign - originally started by filmmaker Lina Esco - has seen hundreds of women parade topless around New York to end gender-specific double standards. The TaTa Top will allow women to support the campaign in a way that's completely legal (and brilliantly sneaky). "You look topless...but you aren’t, and therefore, are not breaking any laws," the website reiterates. "If the sight of uncovered nipples makes you shudder in fear or pop off in anger, then game on and may the breast girl win." Happy customers have already been wearing the top with pride and posting some utterly fabulous snaps on Instagram... Poster Comment: Did you really think you'd get some gratuitous cleavage without a healthy dose of feminism to accompany a headline like this??? Ain't no free lunch (or boobies)..... :)
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Being a realist, thinking about the majority of women going topless, makes me shudder. Playing "gotcha" with their belly button makes one cringe.
So very, very true. {{{shudder the thought}}} “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Physical beauty cannot hold a candle to dignity. Thousands of supermodels running around sans clothing would only destroy the allure created by modesty. I went to an antique toy and advertising show a couple years ago, and remember thinking how much more lovely the Coca-Cola girls circa 1906 were than Brittany Spears or whatever trash was on TV the night before. corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
Yes Virginia, there is a difference between men and women, and it's in the brain as well as the body. And no amount of denial will change that.
#2. To: Cynicom (#1)
Being a realist, thinking about the majority of women going topless, makes me shudder.
#3. To: Cynicom (#1)
Being a realist, thinking about the majority of women going topless, makes me shudder.
#4. To: X-15 (#0)
what’s the difference between a man’s nipples and a woman’s? Is it really just the extra breast tissue? Is it the fact that women’s nipples are paired with a vagina?
#5. To: Pinguinite, Dakmar (#4)
-Alex Kurtagic
#6. To: X-15, Pinguinite, Dakmar, Lod, Cynicom, Jethro Tull, *Up to the Sun* (#5)
Bridget Bardo on On Saint Tropez. American (mainly WASP) morality is practically life-threatening. Protestants removed classical curriculum from lower education because of the nakedness in the art. As Mullins lamented, the New World Order tries to erase the notion of tragedy. What was I talking about? My toes are already in the summer sands and I think I'm out of CoacaCola. 
#7. To: Deasy (#6)
I need a cucumber margarita on-the-rocks....
-Alex Kurtagic
#8. To: Deasy (#6)
Fitting that she starred in And God Created Woman.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#9. To: X-15, Pinguinite, Dakmar, Lod, Cynicom, Jethro Tull, (#3)
It is times like these That I think the greatest mistake we made in the early 20th century after declaring war on Germany, creating the Federal Reserve and the IRS was giving women the right to vote. Maybe not. If Jews were banned from politics as they were in the Byzantine Empire, then maybe white women and men would not be led astray.
The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
#10. To: Deasy (#6) (Edited)
Nope, no nipples visible there. More risque than anything from a 1906 magazine ad, for sure, but it hardly rises to the level of a Hustler centerfold. That was really the only point I was trying to make, vulgar and sexy are not at all the same.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#11. To: Horse (#9)
Banning jews from the country would have been smart, as would have keeping the poll tax for anyone to vote on anything.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#12. To: X-15 (#0)
Do they make them with brown nipples as well? Or is this just for fucked up white chicks?
A rainbow coalition against Jews doesn't require Whites or Pro-Whites. It can be just as brown or anti-white as you like.
#13. To: Dakmar (#3)
Agree 100%. how much more lovely the Coca-Cola girls circa 1906 were than Brittany Spears or whatever trash was on TV the night before.
A rainbow coalition against Jews doesn't require Whites or Pro-Whites. It can be just as brown or anti-white as you like.
#14. To: X-15 (#5)
Nipples *and* a cowboy hat? I'm in love...
A rainbow coalition against Jews doesn't require Whites or Pro-Whites. It can be just as brown or anti-white as you like.
#15. To: Lod (#11) (Edited)
People who can't help but riot when the local zoo offers a day of free admission would most certainly balk at paying 75 cents to vote. Poll tax is one of the greatest achievements of our ancestors, right up there with having US Senate chosen by the states (as it was prior to Amendment XVII - passed at the height of the "Progressive Era". Do you know what a Progressive is? It's a f*****g Communist that can afford toilet paper but wants to climb the social ladder by preventing everyone else from being able to.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#16. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#12)
Shit, we need to start screaming "oppression", Obama make sure the the brown nipple version are considered a human right. Do they make them with brown nipples as well? Or is this just for fucked up white chicks?
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#17. To: Dakmar (#10)
Depends on the beholder, but the sight of Bridget's shoulders and that captivating smile are timeless. ...vulgar and sexy are not at all the same.
#18. To: Dakmar (#15)
Yes, the electorate has been lowered, on all levels, down to the most common voter possible. It's criminal, imo.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#19. To: Deasy (#17) (Edited)
Out of my adoration for Christine, I shall refrain from pressing my case. That and I'm out of black aquatic centipedes...:) Depends on the beholder, but the sight of Bridget's shoulders and that captivating smile are timeless.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#20. To: Dakmar (#19)
Yes, I am also reminded of the incomparable christine.
#21. To: Dakmar (#16)
Just like Band Aids!
A rainbow coalition against Jews doesn't require Whites or Pro-Whites. It can be just as brown or anti-white as you like.
#22. To: Lod, Cyni, 4 (#2)
if we're going to shudder anyway...maybe we should give it a run first ? #faketitsboreme
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#23. To: Dakmar (#15)
LOL! That's tagline material my friend. Do you know what a Progressive is? It's a f*****g Communist that can afford toilet paper but wants to climb the social ladder by preventing everyone else from being able to.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
#24. To: Prefrontal Vortex, Dakmar, Deasy (#21)
Remember Wendy O. Williams!! She was ahead of the curve, she wore BLACK bandaids... Just like Band Aids!
-Alex Kurtagic
#25. To: Prefrontal Vortex, Deasy, Lod, Jethro Tull, James Deffenbach (#24)
Band Aids, "Flesh" colored crayons, ... it doesn't take much to set off an urban riot. Especially asking why "they" can't start their own band-aid/crayon company instead of whining about names civilized folk have used since time immemorial for crayons. Just like Band Aids!
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#26. To: X-15, Dakmar (#24)
Stand by your Man, Motörhead style featuring Wendy O. Williams
#27. To: Deasy (#26)
no nipples, but really pretty:
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#28. To: deasy (#27)
I spoke too soon, there are nipples, Lemmy's, but that's entirely beside the point. :)
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#29. To: James Deffenbach (#23)
Feel free to quote me, all as ask is if they corner you, drop a hint that I am a General Motors/Chevy fan. LOL! That's tagline material my friend.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#30. To: James Deffenbach, Deasy, Lod, Jethro Tull (#23)
Holy Cow...this is first incarnation of Grand Funk! Doing a Yardbirds song no less! Check it out: Are you all going to send me money because I am an awesome DJ? LOL, didn't think so, I would not have either. Mark, Don, & Terry?
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#31. To: Dakmar, fellow berzerkers, christine (#28)
Moving. I'm inspired to post another, an anthem of sorts. My shine wore off as time wore on....
#32. To: Deasy (#31)
I will pray for you next time I change the oil in my Mustang.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#33. To: Deasy (#31)
What else can we rip off? This is starting to be fun!
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#34. To: Deasy (#31)
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#35. To: Deasy (#31)
Too late for self-addressed stamped envelope?
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#36. To: All (#35)
I wish I could be a box of frogs, that would be great!
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#37. To: Deasy, Lod, Jethro Tull, X-15 (#31)
pass that doob, damnit!
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#38. To: Deasy (#31)
are you scared? can you spare a quarter oz? :) are you ready?
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#39. To: All (#38) (Edited)
Damn, I saw yet more nipples at 3:26, should include it in my report?
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#40. To: Dakmar (#38)
My musician friend and I saw Mark, Don, and Mel at the Bronco Bowl (since closed) in Dallas back around 1996: they ROCKED and there were more UBER-HAWT women in their late 30's/40's than I've EVER seen at any other concert. True story.
-Alex Kurtagic
#41. To: Dakmar (#39)
throw yo hans up fo DJ Dak
#42. To: X-15 (#40)
I always loved GFR because the kritiks hated them. That and they were a good band. Fun, had a good beat we could dance to... :) And the KRITIKS hated them! :)
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#43. To: Deasy (#41)
wave 'em like you don't care
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#44. To: Deasy (#41)
If I had to choose, Mel Shacher probably has the best marijuana supply. Farner went all Christian decades ago, and Brewer would prolly bogart any really good dope. How much you think I could paid on national TV for my irreverent opinions ? LOL, didn't think so either.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#45. To: X-15 (#40)
Sunbeams, suicides, all this crap again? :) I thought I made it clear - I am God, what the fuck is wrong with you idiots? :) My musician friend and I saw Mark, Don, and Mel at the Bronco Bowl (since closed) in Dallas back around 1996: they ROCKED and there were more UBER-HAWT women in their late 30's/40's than I've EVER seen at any other concert. True story.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#46. To: Dakmar (#45)
I think Odin approves.
#47. To: X-15 (#7)
I like this one.... Three songs from the film "Get You're Self a College Girl" directed by Sidney Miller. The songs are: "The Girl From Ipanema" performed by Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz on tenor saxophone with Gary Burton on vibes, Gene Cherico on bass and Joe Hunt on drums. Astrud Gilberto (March 29, 1940 age 74) was born Astrud Weinert, the daughter of a Brazilian mother and a German father, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. She was raised in Rio de Janeiro. She married João Gilberto in 1959 and emigrated to the United States in 1963, continuing to reside in the US from that time. Astrud and João divorced in the mid-1960s and she began a relationship with her musical partner, American jazz saxophone player Stan Getz.[1]
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