Your body is your business. It’s not anybody else’s job to tell you what to do with it. Still for women, this happens everyday. A woman’s chest is considered indecent, and as result has become a societal taboo when brought into the public light. The female nipple should not be censored, and step one in fighting his battle is through media. Currently, Instagram policy states that “you may not post….nude, partially nude...pornographic or sexually suggestive photos or other content....”(Instagram). This makes sense; the platform is supposed to be family friendly, but if this policy were entirely true, why are photos of a woman with a blood stain being taken down, but not the multitude of pictures containing shirtless men (Barrie)? Isn’t that
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The ‘Free the Nipple’ campaign has gained support from celebrities like Scout Willis, Chelsea Handler, and a few others, as well as gotten it’s own documentary and multiple trending tags on social media (Heawood). The director of said documentary, Lisa Esco, goes to question how such a “media-dominated society”, that is actually regulated by organizations like the FCC and the MPAA, is more able to tolerate “baroque violence,… brutalization, and death” in media than it is able to handle the woman’s chest (Esco). For example, it took one topless picture for teenager, Adda Þóreyjardóttir Smáradóttir, to not only be reported, but overtly harassed. After arguing with a friend about the treatment she was sure to get with this kind of post, Smáradóttir and her male companion posted pictures of themselves shirtless (Gander). Yet, while his chest was treated as “neutral”, her’s was subject to a “torrent of abuse.” As a result, this event sparked the growth of the movement in Iceland (Heawood). Even an Icelandic MP, Björt Ólafsdottir, joined the movement and posted her own picture, purely because she is “sick of seeing women’s bodies being censored and attacked” (Ólafsdottir). Seeing other, influential women (and even some men) join the movement kick started women around the world to join the movement; this is something that could easily head the way for this campaign’s …show more content…
Honestly, is there any real reason for the tabooness of the situation? Scientifically, the only real difference between a male’s chest and a female’s is that the female’s creates and releases milk, other than that all the classifications, cell types, and skin cells are the same (Monstrey). Don’t worry, your children won’t be anymore scarred seeing a female’s areola, than seeing a male’s. Evidently, the sexualization ended for women’s ankles, and their calves, and even their thighs; therefore, it could happen for their chests too (“Women's Clothing”). I mean it took men until the nineteen thirties, to be able to be topless in public. While it was a shocking development for men to “bathe topless” then, it sure isn’t taboo now (“Men”). So, why can’t it change for women as
The ‘Free the Nipple’ campaign has gained support from celebrities like Scout Willis, Chelsea Handler, and a few others, as well as gotten it’s own documentary and multiple trending tags on social media (Heawood). The director of said documentary, Lisa Esco, goes to question how such a “media-dominated society”, that is actually regulated by organizations like the FCC and the MPAA, is more able to tolerate “baroque violence,… brutalization, and death” in media than it is able to handle the woman’s chest (Esco). For example, it took one topless picture for teenager, Adda Þóreyjardóttir Smáradóttir, to not only be reported, but overtly harassed. After arguing with a friend about the treatment she was sure to get with this kind of post, Smáradóttir and her male companion posted pictures of themselves shirtless (Gander). Yet, while his chest was treated as “neutral”, her’s was subject to a “torrent of abuse.” As a result, this event sparked the growth of the movement in Iceland (Heawood). Even an Icelandic MP, Björt Ólafsdottir, joined the movement and posted her own picture, purely because she is “sick of seeing women’s bodies being censored and attacked” (Ólafsdottir). Seeing other, influential women (and even some men) join the movement kick started women around the world to join the movement; this is something that could easily head the way for this campaign’s …show more content…
Honestly, is there any real reason for the tabooness of the situation? Scientifically, the only real difference between a male’s chest and a female’s is that the female’s creates and releases milk, other than that all the classifications, cell types, and skin cells are the same (Monstrey). Don’t worry, your children won’t be anymore scarred seeing a female’s areola, than seeing a male’s. Evidently, the sexualization ended for women’s ankles, and their calves, and even their thighs; therefore, it could happen for their chests too (“Women's Clothing”). I mean it took men until the nineteen thirties, to be able to be topless in public. While it was a shocking development for men to “bathe topless” then, it sure isn’t taboo now (“Men”). So, why can’t it change for women as