ARE BAREBREASTED WOMEN MONSTERS FROM SPACE?
The Feminist eZine – Top Freedom This Website is Best Viewed Using Firefox By P. Rapoport The following article was written in August 1997 but was refused without comment by the newspaper it was intended for. It was on The Body Objective website for some time. American and other non-Canadian readers may wonder about the Canadian references; but lots of Canadian readers might too. The main points come across fairly easily. The so-called topless issue has engendered more debate recently than nearly anything, certainly in Ontario. Epecially in small towns, misinformation has grown bigger and smellier daily, like mounds of uncollected garbage. It’s time to remove the garbage and freshen up the air. The catalyst for the arguing is the December 1996 Ontario Court of Appeal decision acquitting a woman of a charge of indecency for walking in Guelph topfree. (“Topless” is loaded; “topfree” captures the freedom many women feel when doing what men have been allowed to do for decades.) This summer
