Why Are Women Going Naked in NYC Today? We Accidentally Found Out (*Safe Pictures*)
- Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:16pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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You may not know it (and you’re probably not the only one), but today is “International Go-Topless Day.” At least according to one group in New York City. And in order to celebrate, a large group assembled in famed Bryant Park to bare their chests.
TheBlaze happened by the protest on Sunday afternoon.
Wondering what this is all about like us? Apparently, according to Gothamist, it’s an annual event:
The fifth annual event, which takes place in 30 cities worldwide, happens to fall on Women’s Equality Day this year. According to their BoobMap, this year’s gathering will start in Bryant Park around noon Sunday, ending around 3 p.m. in Times Square, where there will be some live entertainment. Women have the choice of going fully topless, or wearing red tape “to hide their (infamous!) nipples.” Men are encouraged to wear a bikini top to show their support (which will be available there).
According to the website gotopless.org,* which is plastered on some of the signs we saw, the movement was started by a “spiritual” leader and has a motto of “Free your breasts! Free your mind!”:
We are a U.S.-based organization founded in 2007 by spiritual leader Rael and we claim that women have the same constitutional right that men have to go bare-chested in public.
“As long as men are allowed to be topless in public, women should have the same constitutional right. Or else, men should have to wear something to hide their chests” Rael, founder of GoTopless.org and spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement (rael.org)
And apparently they are trying to petition the president:
(GoTopless.org)
The movement even has a “YouTube-friendly” video introducing the movement and asking women if they are the type that likes to garden, drive, or sunbathe topless:
At the protest in New York City, there seemed to be more men in attendance than women. And maybe that’s because the group does practice what it preaches:
A topless woman protester in NYC's Bryant Park (TheBlaze)
(TheBlaze)
(TheBlaze)
So what’s the reaction been? According to tweets grabbed by Gothamist,* most people are a little grossed out:
The irony of the situation is that in NYC, it is legal for women to go topless. But apparently the women are hoping that will eventually extend to women everywhere.
Editor’s note: We’ve decided not to link to certain websites that show the protests.
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Comments (171)
eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:11pmThis Protest is about as USELESS AS THEIR BRAINS!
These kind of women usually are ” HEY..LOOK AT ME – I NEED ATTENTION:…
AND have probably had WRECKLESS & RANDOM sex with half the men in the city…
for that very reason ( needs attention).
NEXT WEEK, they’ll be in line for FREE CONTRACEPTION OR ABORTIONS.
It’s SAD so many women THINK their bodies are the ANSWER to obtaining LOVE,
Report Post »when the FIRST thing a man really checks out is a woman’s MIND….to see IF
SHE’S STUPID ENOUGH TO FALL FOR ANYTHING!
Walkabout
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:39pmThey are shutting down the free press in Tunisia & Egypt. Syria is burning & is there really isn’t a good side to support. Iran is nuclear in October. They already have a dirty bomb & tested one in North Korea. Those are just some of the most prominent.
Yet they are protesting going topless.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 4:20pm@Walkabout:
True, the world burns and the crowds of America listen and follow the American Nero who captivates us with bread and circuses.
Report Post »truthseekerusa
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 4:21pmI wonder how many of these women already have sexually transmitted diseases that will end up causing cervical cancer.? Twenty-five percent of 20 million college students have STD’s including HIV.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 7:21pmBut you gotta admit that pic of the Turd In Chief is pretty funny- I bet his BF just loves it. (Though Moochie was probably wondering where her bra went…) :X
Report Post »gosutag
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 7:35pmAll you Muslim haters should let them go topless, or you’ll become just like the Muslim nations right? Our views are just like Muslim countries except ours are less strict. They can’t have their shirts off. Why not? Old titties? Old fat men have hanging titties too! Ah well. I don’t agree with these idiots, just making a point. All you Islamaphobes are the same as traditional Muslims.
Report Post »mamatango
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 7:51pmFunny how the Liberals invoke the Constitution suddenly over something so ridiculous, but when we‘re talking about human LIBERTIES and FREEDOM from TYRANNY they’re against the Constitution!
Where were all these crazies before 2008? They’re now coming out of the woodwork! They can’t see the forest (Big Picture) for the trees (liberal Talking Points)!
Politics might help, but won’t save us. America has been severely brought to her knees, and her soul is black.
God forgive us. God help us!
http://nationalprayercommittee.com/
Report Post »F_This
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 8:57pmThat’s far from the truth. Most men and women are physically attracted first, then find out what their minds is all about. If it’s the total package, it’s a go.
Report Post »Reavin
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 9:27pmI’ll say it for you: As useless as **** on a bull.
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges12
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 10:47pmThose NY-Dem-bitches are SO-O-O-O-O UGLY … even THIS doesn’t help any.
Report Post »brezzeone
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:04pmI find this to be just funny. I am a man that could care less if women go with-out a top. But they should not get mad when a man looks at them.
Report Post »WATER-THE-TREE
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 2:23amThat’s right , showing your **** fixes everything.
Report Post »tess q
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:02pmall they accomplished is to give the guys some eye candy. going topless does nothing for womens rights. i would argue it does the opposite. stupid!
Report Post »IMPrepared
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:49pmThat’s not eye candy, that’s EYE VINEGAR!
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 5:27pmIn the immortal words of your avatar’s character “What a bunch of pinko dingbats”
Report Post »michael48
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 8:14pmsure don’t want any puppies out of these critters , litters…dam that’s some serious ugly and DUMB!!!!
Report Post »IMPrepared
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 8:35pmI can’t stop laughing… “Please GOD, let me “UN-SEE” that!
Report Post »DIR
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:17amA ‘hooters hoedown!‘ It’s like a flapjack competition. The only thing missing is the margarine and imitation maple syrup. Flapjacks come in all sizes, silver dollar, medium, and extra huge. This goofie group of screwy gals want to unleash their ‘flapjacks’ on the world. It would make a great horror film: ‘The Hooters.‘ It could be an updated take off of ’The Birds.’ Just imagine the horror: a man in a closed telephone booth with a paniced look on his face while outside a bunch of nasty flailing hooters are slapping up against the booth in an effort to get to the guy and beat him senseless. It would be a great vehicle for Nancy Pelosi, Babs Boxer. Maxine Waters, and cast of hunders from the left. The guy in the phone booth could be Newt. In the film the townspeople would be talking about the errant hooters. The movie could have hundreds of sequals: ‘Revenge ot the Hooters,‘ ’Hooters Gone Wild’ just to name a few.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:16am@Dir
Report Post »Thanks for the laugh.Thank god and greyhound I wasn’t drinking coffeee at the time.Spared my keyboard.
That was priceless.What would It be called?A horramedian.A Comedorror.So many combinations of words so little time.
Tide_Rider_2
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:00pmI wouldn’t go to New York city for ANYTHING. Bug hole of America.
Report Post »Tankertony
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:09pmYeah, I hear you can smell it all the way from Jersey. And you can smell Jersey all the way from Philly, and, well, …..
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 4:03pmNYC is nothing but a hole in the water that people throw money into.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 5:29pmI spent a year in Philly once …I think it was a Sunday……
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:18amBug hole of America.Hum you are far more generous than I.I have a few, far more choice words for it.
Report Post »DoseofReality
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:54pmNYC is the center of the country, the center of the world. If you hate NYC you hate america….you people have more in common with al-queda than you even realize…. did you guys cheer when the towers came down? NYC is probably a safer city than whatever redneck hellhole you come from.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:59pmHere again r the moron voters that Obama is looking 4.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 5:31pmAll 4 of them
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:54pmDebbie Wasserman Schultz, please put your top back on and stop screaming.
Report Post »mtnvortex
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:10pmAnd please…keep your pants on too. We wouldn‘t want to see Schultz’s twig and berries.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:28pmArianna, Hillary, Nancy, Janet & friends, same goes for you. You make a man feel like his junk has been tased.
Report Post »Redwing1
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 4:13pmAlmost fell of my chair laughing. Great post. Still laughing. Too funny.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 5:34pmStill having a hard time trying to picture Sgt Shultz as “Ilsa, Shewolf of the SS”……maybe it’s just me.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:54pmHA HA! Just happened .
Report Post »I would be more likely to believe that if this was reported by a woman.
Cheery
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:48pmThat photoshop pic of Obama makes me nauseous…ughhhhhhhhh….Nasty….
Report Post »bannedfromCNN
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 4:14pmIt’s up on the NAMBLA website.
Report Post »ONE-IFBYLAND
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 6:27pmIn his dreams!
Report Post »He wishes he looks like that…..wimpy, wimpy, wimpy!
fixer
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 7:30pmHe‘ll wish he was back with nambla next year when he’s sharing a cell with bubba.
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:47pmMathilda May (1985 Movie Lifeforce) has the best **** I ever seen next to Kelly Preston.
Report Post »CHROME_PLATED_HEART
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:49pmChristina Ricci (after.life – 2010 ) …simply the best.
Report Post »(Bel Ami – 2012) …no change.
JACKTHETOAD
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 4:05pmDitto on Ms. Ricci. Good things come in small packages.(Her, not her bOObs.)
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:47pmWho cares& How stupid can you get
Report Post »blacktape242
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:46pmgross….
Report Post »urnokid
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 7:44pmdang one old woman just stepped on hers!!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:46pm” Free your breasts. Free your mind.” The words of a real boob.
Report Post »Tifn8r
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:18amMy breasts don’t limit my mind. They‘re in charge of my husband’s mind. I’d say milk chocolate has more of a stranglehold on my thoughts, and if there are almonds involved, I’m ……. Errr, what was I saying?
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:40pmHaha, Ooo “Equal right’s for all” I agree, that’s why you do, but not know it. I was thinking about the coming hard times, and I was thinking how some people are encouraging people to prepare by buying gold and other survival things. But, the thing is that people are losing jobs, losing income with inflation – so many people who have prepared will be selling the gold and other survival objects (which are usually valuable) in order to make ends meet while the economy is dying slowly. Thus, all the telling people to prepare has no point, and it will be as if it never happened. Which lead me to speculate it would be far better for things to collapse quickly.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:22pmSpeaking of collapsing quickly…
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 5:42pmI have to agree with Barber but add these additional thoughts..your facility for reason is the only thing that has collapsed …then again Tim you have to have a cognitive coherant thought process to begin with. I suppose in the end you don’t really miss what you never really had in the first place. Take the red pill Tim (wash it down with liberal quantites of corn liquor preferably) and go back to sleep.
Report Post »pissantno.10
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 9:23pmspace cowboy
Report Post »gooeylewie
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:39pmever notice that these “activists” are usually the ones that no one wants to see topless in the first place?
Report Post »bannedfromCNN
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 4:11pmThat’s called “Tit for tat”.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 5:57pmWe should counter the protest with a busload of hairy, overwieght, balding, middle aged French Canadian men wearing nothing but speedos and flip flops….They want “tit for tat” and we’ll oblidge them….Just because Mother Teresa was a female does not mean I want to see her (or anyone like her) topless…ever…same goes for the fat hairy balding dudes on the beach (in thongs no less). Argh now I have to cleanse those memories (and mammaries) from my head all over again (Daytona in the 70‘s and 80’s ). As a rule I think anyopne contemplating shedding a top should be in shape and pleasant to look at ….no one wants to look at flab, hanging pots (like a rock in a sock) and the like. Sheesh.
Report Post »I Fly Low
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:39pmSet those puppies free !!!
Report Post »ronin_6
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:38pmCouple of chicks. Bunch of lame dudes trying get a look. Some protest.
Report Post »Seriously ladies, its not us guys that are preventing you from showing off your hooters. Talk to your fellow sisters of Venus.
kryptonite
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:38pmI bet those women who want to free their breasts are the same ones who want to “free their wombs.” What’s your next motto gonna be, grow a p e n i s?
Report Post »kansas hawks 3
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:11pmlmao,hahahahahahaha Good one.
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:37pm“TheBlaze happened by the protest on Sunday afternoon.”
Just happened to be by a boobie exposing assembly. lol! Sure they did. :)
Report Post »CHROME_PLATED_HEART
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:32pmNow, now. I’m sure the guys were there to get more dirt on Bloomie, then…the papsmearazzi appeared. Then, I’m sure they got some large sugary drinks and lit up.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 4:21pmAnd then at the bottom of the story is this:
“Editor’s note: We’ve decided not to link to certain websites that show the protests.”
Now that’s just wrong. Lol.
Report Post »AngryDwarf
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:37pm@The blaze-
Report Post »Thanks you for NOT showing pictures. I’m out of eye bleach.
garbagecanlogic
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:33pmAlthough it does not condone it – it is no wonder that you have certain mentally challenged minds that thinking women need to be raped and abused. This kind of stoooopidity does not help one bit.
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
Puddle Duck
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 6:33pmThe only one suggesting that horrible mindset is you pal….Man you lefties are sick bunch of weirdos.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 6:35pmI think I’ve misread your post…my bad.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:31pmGreat!….Another bogus “civil rights” movement.
The insane are taking over the asylum……….
Report Post »TheBurningTruth
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:30pmAll these years I‘ve been told that it’s MEN that are fixated on breasts. Yet here are WOMEN tying their whole identity to them. I‘ll bet they’re femi-nazis too that will hit you with their protest sign if you look at them.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:29pmSo if you are going to go to this rally should you have a big wad of one dollar bills with you, and if so, would you really want to see most of the women who are older and out of shape?
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 6:37pmA bag of pennies would be more appropriate.
Report Post »Ch
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:27pmFree your breasts…why? Exebitionist trying to find a place to-exhibition? Sounds like these women want attention. No one paying attention to you unless you take your bra off?
Report Post »Diego Roswell
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 1:32amLike I always say “Women have the propensity to gravitate toward obesity and bimboism”.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:24pmOh geeez, so unoriginal-I was around in the 60′s, nothing new here. So darn silly.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 9:49pmyea and at least they rolled them up and smoked um…
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:21pmSuppose Bloomberg in NY will go around and make sure the cups are the right size or they can’t participate.
Report Post »Toltepeceno
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:37pmNo supersize cups.
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:40pm.
Report Post »No double D cups i’m sure OlO …..
scout n ambush
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 3:59pmThat one had two black eyes and a bruised jaw ,as we type bloomberg is modifying his aw ban to include this new dangereous menace .
Report Post »The Giver
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:03pmHow truly clever! Cup size! Ha! You’re right… Bloomie should be all over this. After all, if the cup is too large, some guy might have his blood pressure go through the roof. Ha! Ha!
Report Post »These sad dames ( I’m a woman by the way) are legally allowed to do this in NY and other states. No one is stopping them. Yet they have to protest the same way they protest for contraceptives… which again, no one is stopping them from buying. Maybe they are just ill informed. Maybe they are just Boobs!