New York woman sues town for arresting her for gardening while topless.

[pnwmom]

Even though it is legal for women and men to go topless in New York. And she was wearing pasties.

https://nypost.com/2018/05/05/topless-gardener-sues-authorities-for-being-prudes/

Cops who had fielded previous complaints about Igoe’s topless yard work simply advised her to cover her nipples, so she bought pasties.

She was wearing them when the priggish passerby snapped a picture of her watering her plants, according to the federal lawsuit.

Before long the prude patrol showed up in the form of Village of Red Hook Officer Travis Sterritt, who arrested Igoe.

“Like many people, including millions of men, she prefers to be topless in the summer heat while performing work outdoors,” Igoe claimed in court papers filed in White Plains federal court against Red Hook, where she lives, and Sterritt, over the August incident. She seeks unspecified damages.

A judge dismissed the charges against Igoe; it’s been legal in New York state for woman to be topless in public since 1992, when two female activists challenged the state’s public lewdness law in court.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Decent or Indecent Exposure?

Beasts on a woman?

How we have sexualized body parts.

[PJMcK]

4. Maybe you need an "R"? (n/t)

[Achilleaze]

2. Just wait till Aunt Lydia Huckabee (R) hears about this

Cue the repube fake poutrage machine...

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[MagickMuffin]

3. GOOD

I'd prefer women's bare breast to men's any ol day. And I am a woman.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. Like this "Epic Movie" parody of Adam Sandler's movie, "Click?"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=1loEyMRkp0g

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[Demit]

5. The passerby was driving. S/he had to stop to take that picture.

Plus it was a rural road. That's not priggishness, that's a willful decision to make trouble. Some people!

[oberliner]

6. "Leaving for New York City tomorrow!!!!! So excited to be a guest on the Megyn Kelly Today show!"

That's her most recent tweet. Guess things worked out OK for her.

[NJCher]

13. saw it

It was a good interview. Comcast viewers can catch it "on demand" under Today Show, then Megyn Kelly.

This lady is no sex symbol. She's just a regular person.

I don't debate her right to do this and I'm happy she's suing over this ridiculous harassment from the police, but I question her wanting to be topless. It's not safe to be out in the sun without plenty of suntan lotion, and the breasts are an area of the body that has very delicate skin. The best thing gardeners can do is cover up with clothing and suntan lotion. A big hat, which covers the neck and shades the face is also good.

Also suntan lotion has to be applied every two hours and should be at least spf30 for outdoor work.

[nolabels]

19. Exposure to the sunshine is healthful but moderation is also helpful

Common sense would be in how much skin is exposed for the time exposure

How to Safely Get Vitamin D From The Sun - Healthline
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/vitamin-d-from-sun

[PoliticAverse]

7. Hope she wins a decent false-arrest settlement. Cops should know basic laws like that. n/t

[Midnight Writer]

8. Attitudes towards women breasts mirror liberal or conservative political trends.

For example, during the very conservative American era of Prohibition, the "style" for women was to flatten their breasts with wraps and cover their bosoms. When the more liberal era of the Depression years came along, the breasts were emphasized with support bras and cleavage was in style.

Jung attributed this to matrist v patrist societies. In societies where women are respected and have power, the emphasis of their breasts is allowed, even celebrated. In patrist societies, women are expected to be publicly "modest".

The matrist v patrist model also correlates with liberal v conservative. As we are moving back to a patrist society where the dominant male is most valued, "issues" such as birth control, sexual mores and gender are revived.

[Kilgore]

9. Pasties?

Where would you find such things?

Pastries are another matter, I know where to get those.

[sdfernando]

12. Yeah. Just slap on

A couple of glazed or if adventurous some jelly filled. They stick on all by themselves!....LOL



in case you are impaired.

[Kilgore]

17. Dammit! Now you did it!

Gotta go buy doughnuts!

Wait a minute, doughnuts as pasties.....hmmmm......a new dimension to foreplay, tasty too.....

Not sarcasm, I really want doughnuts now. And I want to see how well a Bismarck will stick if I can convince the wife to do an experiment......all in the name of science of course.

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. I've always hated discrimination in any form. nt

[Volaris]

11. If If she was in her own damn yard, can that even be considered a 'public space'?

If she were watering the plants in the Town Park, sure the case was thrown out for the right reason. HER OWN DAM YARD. HOW is this not a violation of privacy?

[SharonClark]

14. Glad I don't live in NY. I don't want to see any of my neighbors topless.

[Nevernose]

15. What if male children find out that women have nipples?

Oh, the horror! I can see society collapsing around us already. How dare that woman possess nipples and allow people to see them! Who does she think she is? Male? Ridiculous!

[MineralMan]

18. Just look in some other direction. That's my advice for prudes.

For some reason, our skin suits are not to be seen by anyone, except doctors and intimate partners. And yet, we're all born in them and wear them until we're dead and gone. For some odd reason, it's OK for men and boys to appear without coverings on their torsos, but not for women and girls to do the same.

In New York, it went to court and that court decided that "fair is fair," and that discrimination based on sex was not legal. So, women in that state, if they wish, can go without their torsos being covered by cloth. Most choose not to do that. Some go ahead and bare their skin. Nobody is required to stare at them, though.

From the waist up, men and women, girls and boys, all have the very same parts. Anatomically, we're all alike from the waist up. We're mammals, and all mammals, male and female, have nipples. That's why we're called mammals, for goodness' sake. Everyone looks a little different, of course. Adult women tend to have more development of breast tissues than men. That changes somewhat, as we get older, at least for many men, who seem to enlarge in those areas as testosterone levels fall. So what?

If you encounter a person without a shirt and it offends or titillates you for some reason, just look in another direction. If your children point and exclaim about some adult woman with her breasts exposed, use it as a learning opportunity and teach them to look in another direction.

We're all the same from the waist up, for Pete's sake!