FARMINGTON — A bare-chested university coed handed out fliers last weekend announcing a march April 30 to expose the double standard between men and women and to point out it's legal for women to go topless in public.
Andrea Simoneau, 22, of Brooks, a University of Maine at Farmington senior, said she was inspired to create the Farmington First Topless March for Gender Equity, as listed on Facebook, after she and several friends participated in a similar walk April 3 in Portland.
"It was empowering and I figured I'd extend it to women in Farmington as well," she said Monday.
On Saturday morning, she distributed fliers in front of TD Bank at Main Street and Broadway, prompting several 911 calls, Farmington Police secretary Rachel Heseltine said.
“There's no law against being topless unless it impedes traffic safety,” she said.
The fliers announced the topless march from 1 to 2 p.m. Friday, April 30, starting at Meetinghouse Park on Main Street and going nearly half a mile to Abbott Park. It also notes that electrical tape will be provided for anyone who is shy.
Simoneau said she wants to accomplish two things: Let women know it's not illegal to go topless in the state of Maine; and "we're trying to help lift the social stigma of women going topless that men don't face, and expose the double standard."
"I've always been angered by the double standard. On a hot day I've wanted to strip off my shirt like men do," she said. "Women should be able to go topless everywhere that men can."
She said men are encouraged to march as long as it's not just to leer or be gross. As for cameras, she's working with the Portland march organizers to see how they handled pictures taken without consent but figures marchers will have to basically ignore it.
She said the catcalls and comments have to be ignored, she said, but police will protect marchers from any touching or threats.
"Ive already cleared it with police and they have been wonderful," she added.
She began advertising the march over the weekend because she felt the Portland march, which drew about three dozen participants, was not advertised well enough. She said some people were very offended by her topless advertising on the street corner, several called police, and still others were supportive.
"A few shouted mean things but that's to be expected. It's a very deeply ingrained social taboo," she said.
However, it won't stop her from trying it again this Saturday. The aspiring political activist said she's hoping for change.
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Is this really that big of a deal? If you're offended, don't watch. If there are people passionate about this issue then let them do their thing. Are we not in the United States
Again, if you are offended then don't go. No one is going to make you watch or take your shirt off!
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should sign the "Women's constitutional right to go topless in public" petition. The online version is just as real as their paper version & currently has 2,700 signatures. It will be presented to Obama probably this August. This August is the 3rd annual nationally coordinated Gotopless day in US history.
I know it will take a lot more protesting then 3 years--it took 72 years of protests to get the right to vote, but its a start !
petition at gotopless.org top right of page
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Just because males want to show a lack of class and/or modesty by walking around bare chested, she thinks women should have the same opportunity to degrade themselves? The elderly ladies and I at the nursing home where I work all got a good laugh out of this story. One of their first thoughts were, "how does she expect to get into stores w/no shirt, no shoes, no service policies in place?" A couple of the elderly men were all for it. Most also thought about how a young parent would explain it to their young kids, both male and female(anyone remember the truknutz controversy?). One elderly woman remembered crying for a long time when she was a little girl because she saw a topless woman one day and didn't want those things growing out of her. I love the elderly.
Please Andrea, do your community some good...volunteer at a soup kitchen or food pantry, or maybe even volunteer at the local fuel assistance office...something that will make a positive difference in someone's life.
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Andrea already has the right to be topless in public in Maine. She knows this. So why doesn't she just go topless whenever she feels the need to? Instead she informs the medea to make sure everyone knows and will show up to see her. Andrea is desperate for attention. Maybe if we all ignore her she will GO AWAY.
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Really people? All that's wrong with the world and this is what we're taking a stand on AND getting our panties in a bunch over? I'd say there's far more pressing social issues to spend our time trying to solve than topless inequality (how about inequality in pay?), and likewise there are far more things for most posters here to worry about that people walking around without their shirts on (who they will most likely never see). To me, it's very similar to gay marriage. If you can explain to me how topless women will bring down your quality of life (besides the sophomoric "they're ugly!" response), then I'll begin to understand why this young woman upsets you so. If it's just because you're a prude and this goes against the way you want someone else to act in their lives, buzz off.
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I just want to say how funny I think it is that Andreas reasoning with wanting to go topless is because of those hot summer days... how hot was it yesterday at td bank north?
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I came to see if there were any interesting comments on this version of the story (interesting history, RSaint66) and am appalled (though not surprised) by the number of xenophobic and ethnocentric comments. "Go join a tribe"? Really, Pepper? Gross.
That said, I'll repost what I said elsewhere cause I see the worry about sexual predators is being expressed here too:
Children who are sexually abused are much more likely to be abused by someone they already know, who has access to them and is trusted by their caregivers. I wish we wouldn’t divert attention away from that reality by redirecting to the mythical weirdos who are going to jump out of the bushes and nab our kids.
Really, I’d rather see some money and effort put toward education, prevention, and information for children and parents then presume my kid is going to be at risk because they happen to see some breasts. Meanwhile, this is a great opportunity for parents to talk to their kids about bodies and safety and objectivity. Or, if people don’t feel comfortable talking to their children, they can opt to stay home or ignore it.
Seems to me the goal of this event is not to objectify bodies, but rather to celebrate them and assert people’s (legal) right to be comfortable how they see fit. I don’t see any problem with that.
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I hope you put this function on your resume, it really will tell a company about yourself.
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I repeat... huh?
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I think I'll march (clothed) at the same time and my sign will say, "If you're going to march without a shirt on, please start using a gym." Ugh. That goes for the men, too. Please, just step away from the drive-thru and march yourselves right over to the UMF gym before showing us what you've got.
And at risk of being a broken record, it is normal and biologically correct for men to want to look at breasts. They are sexual--some of the time--and that's OK. They are not just for breastfeeding (which I have done and fully support anywhere, anytime).
Ultimately, I don't really care. I have nothing against women going topless, particularly at beaches, for example, but their reasoning behind the march is faulty.
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Thankfully, there is someone who sees my ultimate point.
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In the Beginning
For over 99 percent of known human existence our ancestors lived in communal nudity. Until loom technology emerged in Asia about 6,000 years ago, clothing wasn't an available option anywhere on the planet unless one was into fur, a bad choice for humid days.
All children grew up knowing exactly what others of their fellow species looked like. Modesty was presumably not a burning issue, and the notion that human bodies were obscene would never have been imagined. Unless taught otherwise, body acceptance was as natural as life and self acceptance.
Colonial Cover-ups
Social nudity is an old tradition in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to the 18th Century invasion of their tribal villages by Western Civilization's emissaries clad in military armor and clerical robes, the earliest Californians had lived unashamedly nude in this temperate, coastal climate for over 10,000 years.
Their sad experience was a familiar story of colonialism: that is, cultural genocide, including a compulsory cover-up of naked savages in the name of civilized modesty. Instilling body shame became an essential element in the conversion and control of native peoples.
The modus operandi was systematically repeated over four centuries in the Americas, Africa, Australia, the Pacific Islands and most of the rest of the world where clothing was and is climatically superfluous. Disregarding tropical discomfort, European colonial/religious authorities made wearing clothing the most visible sign of subservience to the new order. The Hawaiian mumu was one such fashionable result.
A Culture Shifts
Nudity was not always taboo in Europe, of course. Those prime contributors to Western Civilization, the ancient Greeks, found the nude human form both noble and artistically inspiring, competed nude in the Olympics for centuries, and sometimes even fought wars with nude combatants. Their cultural successors, the Romans, socialized nudity in their public baths, and nudity was often part of pagan ceremony and celebration throughout pre-Christian Europe.
Though early Christianity cleverly coopted key pagan holidays and myths to gain acceptance, it denounced the more flexible pagan attitudes about nudity, sexuality and the human body. Faithfully believing Jesus's Second Coming was imminent for many centuries after his crucifixion, early Christian leaders tended to be extreme ascetics who closed their doubting minds, rejected their sinful bodies and focused mostly on their spiritual hereafters. The "flesh" was seen as an evil temptation, especially if it was female.
Despite a lack of doctrinal support in the Gospels, this negative corporal attitude prevailed through various waxings and wanings for over a millennium after the Church succeeded the Roman Empire as the standard bearer of Western Civilization. If anything, the Protestants who later emerged were even more body repressive than the Catholics. Many of Europe's most radical religious sects were forced to emigrate to America, where their legacy lingers.
At last civilized people seemed safe from the presumed moral danger of seeing a nude human body, including even one's own. Undressing in the dark was the norm, bathing was not especially encouraged, and s-e-x, also performed in the dark and never discussed, was only for procreation, never recreation. (No woman of good moral character would admit erotic pleasure from the act of love lest she be thought promiscuous.)
Nudity Returns
Early in the 20th Century social nudity began its first European comeback since Rome was sacked. An international body acceptance movement emerged to propose nudity in nature as a humanizing antidote to the repressive extremes of both puritanical Victorianism and urban industrialism.
Known as "Free Body Culture" in Germany, "Naturism" in most of Europe, and eventually "Nudism" as it reached American shores in the third decade, the movement's secular, idealistic philosophy included non-sexual social nudity, outdoor exercise, a healthy, non-alcoholic, usually vegetarian diet, and a spiritual bond with nature. Though it was not a religion and neither opposed nor promoted any religion, it provided a convenient symbolic target for many ambitious guardians of public morality, especially in the U.S., where nudity seemed indistinguishable from sexuality in the public mind.
Interrupted only by wars, the body acceptance movement spread very rapidly, especially in Europe, where it eventually devolved from the utopian to the mostly recreational as social nudity became more popular. A BBC documentary in the 1980's estimated that over 50 million Europeans enjoyed naturist holidays.
American tourists are often astonished by European body freedom. In less than a century Europe transformed from total suppression of nudity to a situation where many of the most popular beaches are clothing-optional, as are sections of certain urban parks, spas and resorts.
Frontal nudity, censored in America, is commonly shown on European television, while violence is much less often depicted than in the U.S. Nude destination resorts flourish in the warmest climates, and one of the largest holiday centers in the world, France's Cap d'Agde, is all nude, serving a capacity of over 40,000 in season.
America's Slower Transition
Body acceptance developments in The New World have lagged behind those in Europe. Private nudist clubs, parks and campgrounds first emerged in the 1930's facing nervous media ridicule, censorship and The Depression. Neither World War II nor the regressive 1950's gave the American movement much encouragement after its inauspicious debut, and early growth was glacial.
After finally winning the legal right to publish and mail innocuous nude photos in the late 1950's, nudist publications were swamped in the marketplace in the 1960's by an explosive growth of unrelated pornography with much more erotic images. Their magazines' commercial failure left the mostly family-oriented nudist clubs with few outreach channels besides word-of-mouth by an often secretive membership, and thus they generated few resources for growth and development.
Beach nudity, usually at remote or hard-to-reach sites, grew in popularity beginning in the 1960's. Black's Beach, a cliff-protected, clothing-optional mecca for nude sand-and-surf lovers near San Diego, has attracted over 10,000 participants on seasonal holidays during the following decades.
The Sexual Revolution and the addition of backyard swimming pools and hot tubs made discrete private nudity more sociable and normal through the 1970's. Polls in the 1980's found that although less than 20% of Americans had by then experienced coed social nudity, over 70% felt that designating clothing-optional beaches was an acceptable concept.
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Can't seem to keep obscenities out of your replies, can you?
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I wonder if it ever occured to them that modesty has a place in society too. Stop being dumb and get an f'n life.
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My children are taught properly, they are taught to HAVE morals which you obviously do not have. Do you see women going topless in Europe other than at the 'nude' beaches? No. Even they draw the line. Further, just because someone else does it does not make it right (when will you liberal fools get that through your thick skulls?).
If these woman had ANY respect for themselves and their bodies, they would not be doing this. They are a fringe element with an attention-whore mentality. They will get their attention but it will not be the attention they are seeking. They will get a thousand pervs with cameras and this will push many towns to pass ordinances against their behavior. In the end, what is legal now, will become illegal because of their actions. Better to leave it alone and understand that any woman can go topless right now than to draw attention to it and have that loophole closed. Unfortunately, they are too stupid and naive to understand that.
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This has NOTHING to do with morals & values. It pertains to prudish attitudes about nudity that we've been force fed for generations. No, women do not go topless in Europe other than at the beaches. Why? Out of a sense of propriety. It's not the time and place. And though Farmington is FAR from the right place, the fact is the laws ALLOW women to go topless in Maine. If it were otherwise, the state statutes would say so. Andrea is just standing up for her rights under Maine law. If it offends you and your children so much, I'd encourage you to stage a counter-protest. Otherwise you risk coming off as a hypocrite yourself.
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Actually, it does have something to do with morality and values. Even your vaunted Europeans know the time and place for toplessness, unfortunately, these women do not. They are so hung up on asserting their 'rights' (no, they are not standing up for their right because no one is telling them that they cannot do this, they are saying that they shouldn't) that they cannot see the fact that if anything, they are doing more harm than good. Their actions will result in a many towns passing ordinances banning such behaviour, then, they will no longer have this 'right'. If they had any morals or values, they would keep such activity to an appropriate place (which even you allude to understanding).
A little mystery can be a good thing.
And I still say she's going to attract more pervs with cameras than supporters.
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Again, there you go assuming YOUR values & morality are the same as everyone else's. PLEASE keep your morality to yourself. If I wanted to have them force-fed to me, I'd ask. Nothing is more offensive than to have someone assume that they're on the 'right side' of the issue. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but the REAL issue is EQUAL RIGHTS. Maybe the answer is to make it illegal for men to bare their chests. Sounds pretty simple to me.
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nowhere did I assume that MY values and morals are the same as everyone else's. I did however use YOUR OWN POINT to illustrate how foolish these woman are. I will however, go further here, how often do you really see men walking around town without shirts? Not very often at all, even on the hottest of days unless you're at the beach. YOU on the other hand are trying to force YOUR values and lack of morals on everyone else. This country was settled and founded by 'prudes' who were far more conservative than their european counterparts. Your ability to copy/paste the history of nudity shows one viewpoint but not the only one. You can take your own advice and stop trying to force feed YOUR values on everyone else. As for me, I will continue to exercise my RIGHT to voice my opinion.
And, since you want to be that way, I think I will write every elected official that I can to request that they put a stop to this foolish and amoral behavior. Yup, there is a time and place (I thought we agreed on that based on your comments about Europeans), this is not the time or place. A nude beach maybe, main st, definitely not.
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Do you have kids yourself? I am sorry for your lack of common sense...it is NOT right.
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And I teach him to think for himself and not just accept antiquated values and ideas because SOMEONE ELSE says so. He has suffered NO ILL EFFECTS from attending nude beaches. In fact, he has a HEALTHY attitude toward nudity, and doesn't understand why prudes like yourself see fit to demand that people behave the way YOU want them to.
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Sorry if you consider me a prude, when you know nothing about me or my values. You are obviously a man and now I know you have a son that you have shared "your ideas" with. Myself, I have a stepson {who knows better on his own}, a young niece and a baby of my own. I also have a pre-teen niece whom is developing at a fast rate. So are you to tell me that it would be okay for her or "healthy" for any other teen {in this society} to walk down the street topless and take the chance of being picked up? Perhaps you have a set age in mind when it would be considered alright? There are sex-offenders everywhere! "Healthy" or not, what we LET HAPPEN today will affect the lives of our future children as well. A nude beach is just for people whom like that- "a time and place for everything". So where do MY rights come in? Must we, whom don't want our children exposed to a free live porn show, lock ourselves inside our houses? No matter what, a woman's breasts are a "private part"and nobody will change that fact. If you want to talk about only fit people {men and women} going topless... then you called it- it's for show and for the sexual nature-not equality!
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Nudity, in and of itself, is NOT pornography. The natural body is, as our Creator intended, a good thing. We were not created with clothes, nor were the animals. And as I've written, there is a time and a place for everything. We should not, however, be forced to feel ashamed of our bodies because of someone else's ideals. (see article posted below) While a protest of this sort seems out of place to you, it would have little or no impact if enacted behind closed doors. The double standard has been with us for far too long. Breasts are not a sexual organ. Do we cover up the teats of a cow? Or a nursing dog? No, we SHOULD teach our children that breasts are for the feeding and nurturing of young children and nothing to be ashamed of. I agree that in public settings, genitals should NOT be exposed by male or female. GENITALS. Not breasts. Nothing is more wholesome than a mother breast-feeding her child. It is a natural thing. It was intended to be that way. Women should not be forced into being ashamed of feeding their child WHEREVER they are.
Yes, we have issues with sexual predators. They are dangerous to all of our children. They have also been around for much longer than you and I. What we should focus on is dealing with them and the problems they create more efficiently. Andrea's 'protest' only forces us to re-examine the way we view the female breast. In and of itself, it is no more harmful to view than a topless male. As for my comment about 'in-shape' people, it was meant to evoke a response. Perhaps if people viewed nudity as a benign thing, maybe we could chance the social perception of 'beauty' we've been force-fed for years thus helping to eliminate bulemia, poor self-image, and other such issues by realizing that fat or not, our bodies are ALL beautiful.
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I understand where you are coming from in a sense, but I do not agree with nudity in everyday places in our society. Breastfeeding obviously has a purpose, to feel out of necessity. You know this is altogether different! When, for how many years, women have clothed their breasts in public places... and so now to the majority it is seen as a pornographic show! So have a place for people that...those who want to live like that...their own little community where they can hav perverts from afar come visit. Yes, there are people like yourself, that respect the beauty of the human body- but there are many more people out there looking to get their jollies out of a peep. I am a woman and want my equal rights too. I dont want my kids or myself to see it. It is a selfish self-serving act on her part. That's my point.
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First off, according to Maine statutes, it is only illegal to bare one's GENITALIA. Breasts are NOT genitalia, unless you subscribe to some ultra-conservative religious group. As for giving the U.S. a "bad name", keep in mind that there are HUNDREDS of nude or topless beaches throughout Europe. True, there is a time and place for public nudity. On the same note, there are MANY men who should ALWAYS keep their shirts on based on their lack of physical conditioning. The same applys to women. However, equal rights are meant to be exactly that... EQUAL.
Ladies, if you don't feel comfortable enough with your own body to go topless.... then don't. No one is forcing you. And for all others, if your panties are in such a bunch that the sight of breasts disgusts you, that's YOUR problem with YOUR OWN morality. Perhaps you should examine why you feel that way. Yup, it's because it's a TAUGHT behavior. From birth, children are NOT ashamed of their bodies. They are taugh to be by their uptight parents. So people, loosen up a bit. Your children, IF TAUGHT PROPERLY, will suffer no ill effects from seeing a topless woman. Certainly no more than seeing an obese, hairy guy going shirtless. Let's grow up people....
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jalbrect1 = jonathan? right, so you're going to see the free boobie show.
According to her facebook page (people really put too much about themselves out there) she is interested in woman (so really, she just wants to see a free boobie show too).
I wonder how ARAMARK (her listed employer) feels about this.
Also according to her facebook page, she's battling with the selectmen (and says F.Y. to them in one posting, wow, such maturity).
If you have facebook, you can search her name and see all kinds of things about her including the fact that, based on her postings, she has a lot of growing up to do.
Seriously Andrea, the only people who want to see this happen are feminazi's like you, and pervs. I am sure you will get a much larger turnout of pervs with cameras than you will supporters and, in the end, you will be plastered all over the internet (and the pervs will do unspeakable things while looking at your tatas on their computer screen). Since you will be in a public place, there is no expectation of privacy and therefore, people can take all the pictures they want without your consent. Further, if you had read Facebook's policies, you would inderstand that by posting the picture you have as a profile pic, they have the right to use the picture in any way that they see fit.
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Given the current economic climate, it upsets me that the town of Farmington and Franklin County wasted resources to have multiple police officers "guarding" Andrea while she "demonstrated." Maybe Andrea should think about giving back to her community by volunteering during her free time instead of walking around topless and wasting our community's resources. If it is legal for Andrea to walk around topless, why is she demonstrating in the first place?
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If it is legal for Andrea to walk around topless, why is she demonstrating in the first place?- That was the first thing that entered my mind!
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As has been said many times, the only thing illegal is exposed genitals, and breasts are NOT genitals.
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"if you go thru with this march you are not only putting yourself at risk, but you will also be putting all the other women at risk for stalkers and perverts." This is why Andrea needs to march.
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"This is why Andrea needs to march"... what are you trying to say? I am not the only reader that is confused by your comment!
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I dont care if some woman wants to walk around topless...Whatever.. But what I dont like is that fact that she wants to be equal with Men and still think that we should be careful with the pictures after she decides to walk down a public street. I say take as many pictures as you want and post them all over face book. Then maybe this granola will realize the freedom that she is fighting for. I sure if some news paper took a picture of me walking done the beach with no shirt and showed it on the news I couldn't do a thing..........But this hipocrit doesn't want he boobies on the internet well guess what hippie. You cant have you cake and eat it too.
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At least spell 'hypocrite' correctly.
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The idea that women can't go topless in public is purely social prejudice. Its irrational and a double standard. If I can make it from work, I will be happy to join her.
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I and 150 million other American men fulyl support her right to be topless.
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It is indecent exposure period. If you support this cause then you might want to take a look at how America was founded in the first place. America already has a "bad" name from other country's perspectives. Not too smart.
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America was founded by a group of what you would refer to as 'malcontents', people not happy with they way things were. What did they do? Protest! Fight for your rights Andrea!
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Keep in mind that one of England's premier newspapers runs a daily topless photo on Page 3 EVERY DAY. Not to mention the HUNDREDS of nude or topless beaches throughout Europe. Not exactly the fall of an empire.
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For centuries the rights of men vs. women have been different for good reasons. I believe that for this girl going thru with this topless march will bring out many sexual predators across the state. Today, in this society, your cause will not work, Andrea! You will not make being topless in public an act of equality! You and all the other women who join you will be viewed as pieces of meat for hungry eyes to seek out! I am a woman, and do not feel that because of the heat we {as women}should expose ourselves in public as there is a time and a place for everything. Put a bikini top on! Think of the kids... they certainly shouldn't be forced into watching half naked women everywhere they go. We already struggle as parents enough to teach morality in this world without your selfish acts, and yes, they are selfish! Perhaps, because you are in your senior year, you are looking to have your name in a history book...well, you made the paper and the news, so congrats! Again, if you go thru with this march you are not only putting yourself at risk, but you will also be putting all the other women at risk for stalkers and perverts. You may only have a handfull of other women who agree with your cause so is it really worth it? Think about it.
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Please Andrea...save the event for the Farmington Fair. It would definitely add some class to the state's worse agricultural fair.
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Sounds like the police and the student need to check on the Maine law against public indency. Here's the link: http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec854.html
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The last time I checked, women's genitalia were not located in their boobs.
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Wait about 20 years....they'll end up there.......
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That's is some funny stuff....
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They'll be 50 plus comments on this article today... A lot of them bashing what she is doing, bitching about today's values, and complaining she is an attention getter.
The reality is people are passionate about this, if not, why are you commenting?
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Someone should offer an open invitation for breast cancer survivors to join them. Maybe nursing moms and their babies too. If the message is that breasts are not simply objects of lust that should remain covered in public, why not make some effort to show what other function they serve as well as show that women are still themselves no matter what terrible things have happened to their breasts? I’d think that would be a more worthwhile message than just walking around topless.
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She doesn't sound like someone who believes in a cause, more like a disrespectful teenager who wants her own way, and will curse like a drunken sailor if she's told it's not a good idea.
FB search for Andrea Simoneau, she's the one with her painted back to the camera. Her Wall is public for all to see, she must be proud of it.
One thing she says is "Ignorant people in power fu**ing suck dirty balls." Oh really? How enlightened and intelligent YOU sound, Andrea! Let's all listen to what this girl has to say - not.
Suggestion to you, Andrea: If you want people to treat you with respect try treating yourself with respect first.
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"Ignorant people in power fu**ing suck dirty balls." I think most Mainers would agree with this statement, though perhaps not the choice of language. That being said, a character attack ignores the real issues. I also think that although she may need to learn a lesson on internet privacy (or the lack thereof), you're most likely taking everything she's ever posted out of the context her friends on FB would have.
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Little Andrea- No one is stopping you from going topless on a hot day. Whip 'em out! You are only another immature fool that wants to copy another vain broad that from her picture should be ashamed to be uncovered anywhere. There are even some of us Male animals that should stay covered in public. I hope your mother and father will be so proud of their little girl. AND whats with us being denied our right to photograph anything we wish. Males should have the same rights as females with cameras. Get over yourself!
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Maybe Andrea should return to the jungle. She could be right at home with some of the tribes. Farmington already has a reputation beyond liberal and many people avoid shopping there. I do not believe this action will help the local economy any. There will be onlookers but not the kind that buy goods. I wonder why Andrea hasn't checked out our nudist colonies or is it because she just wants the attention.
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Ya, this isn't veiled racism or anything...
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Andrea should get a life. Go to school, get an education, get out into the real world and stop being so naive.
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