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TexasTowelie

(111,304 posts)
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 08:39 PM Feb 2017

Judge says women can go topless in Colorado town

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A federal judge in Denver blocked the Fort Collins ban on female toplessness Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson wrote the ordinance — which mandates women will not knowingly expose their breasts in public — is rooted in discrimination against women.

"Thus, it perpetuates a stereotype engrained in our society that female breasts are primarily objects of sexual desire whereas male breasts are not," Jackson wrote.

Jackson granted the plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction and said it's likely to succeed at a permanent injunction. He wrote that he would likely find the ordinance unconstitutional when the case goes to trial.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/22/judge-women-can-go-topless/98280372/

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Judge says women can go topless in Colorado town (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2017 OP
marijuana and bare breasts - Colorado is a paradise. rurallib Feb 2017 #1
it's the men-are-too-weak-to-resist syndrome so blame it all on the woman aka hajib syndrome msongs Feb 2017 #2

rurallib

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1. marijuana and bare breasts - Colorado is a paradise.
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 09:33 PM
Feb 2017

In all seriousnessI have often wondered about that and the reasoning behind women covering up while men don't have to

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