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    Women's Boobs Are Not Free Speech, Says Federal Court

    Women's Boobs Are Not Free Speech, Says Federal Court

    To protect public health, safety, and morals, the government has an important interest in preventing women from going topless, a federal appeals court has ruled. And the importance of keeping lady breasts out of public view overrules any First Amendment or equal protection issues that such a policy raises.

    But at least one dissenting judge felt differently, describing our topless protagonist as having "engaged in the paradigm of First Amendment speech—a public protest on public land in which the participants sought to change a law that, on its face, treats women differently than men."

    Going topless might not be inherently expressive, "but to declare, as a matter of law, that it can never be expressive is the quintessence of throwing out the free-expression baby with the non-expressive-conduct bath water," Judge Ilana Rovner wrote.

    And while Rovner notes that as a citizen, she doesn't "relish the prospect of seeing bare-chested women in public," she thinks the plaintiff here does present "potentially viable First Amendment and sex discrimination claims."

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    Well, damn. I say free the boobs!

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    Public health, safety, and morals?

    How?

    And those are boobies, not boobs.
    People who think a movie about plastic dolls is trying to turn their kids gay or trans are now officially known as

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Women's Boobs Are Not Free Speech, Says Federal Court

    Have to do this or some would try to use protest to go topless everywhere



    Well, damn. I say free the boobs!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crepitus View Post
    Public health, safety, and morals?

    How?

    And those are boobies, not boobs.
    Just another example of how a woman doesn't own her body, and others try to control it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Safety View Post
    Just another example of how a woman doesn't own her body, and others try to control it.
    Really? I guess that means men don't own their bodies either. I mean, can I walk down the street naked from the waist down and call that free speech?

    This is more an issue of society being prudes, than some woman's rights issue, IMO.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Safety View Post
    Just another example of how a woman doesn't own her body, and others try to control it.
    Isn't the court saying women should control their boobs? Cover them, bra them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ravens Fan View Post
    Really? I guess that means men don't own their bodies either. I mean, can I walk down the street naked from the waist down and call that free speech?

    This is more an issue of society being prudes, than some woman's rights issue, IMO.

    At least the court's being prudish. Of the two who so ruled one was appointed by Bush 2 and one Reagan. The dissenter was appointed by Bush 1.
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    Men can't flop their dicks around either. Not saying I necessarily agree with this, but I don't think it's an anti women ruling.

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    Yea but what about man boobs?

    Picture from the OP link:



    If men can do it why can't women be equal! Equality!!

    Last edited by Chris; 11-17-2017 at 11:15 AM.
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