…Or is the anchor kind of laughing at this story as he announces it? Because that would be fair, in my view. It’s funny. Here’s the story of one Montreal woman who wants to be allowed to go topless on any beach. Because men do. Seriously, that’s her reasoning. She’s launched a Human Rights case.
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As a man, I do find it curious that this lady thinks that in order for a woman to be equal to a man, she must become more like a man (i.e. walk around without a top on). This strikes me as being a very unfeminine, almost anti-woman, position. It seems she is denying that there might be some things that make women unique from men. If every difference between the sexes is viewed by women like Ms. Clark as a detrimental hindrance instead of a uniqueness that is worth celebrating and cherishing, I’m afraid this homogeneous approach to equality will be more destructive than I feared.
There’s a hilarious line from Dr. Peter Kreeft’s speech about how to win the Culture War where he says that calling feminists feminine is like calling cannibals chefs. It was a fantastic speech that he did as “Screwtape” from C.S. Lewis’ book “The Screwtape Letters”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm08x8YiuXk
So let me get this straight…
A woman takes off her top in public. A man tells her to put it back on. This woman is so horribly offended that a man told her to do something that she didn’t want to do that she throws a huge hissy fit in order to make the national news, and then threatens to take it to a human rights tribunal.
I don’t think there is any (enforceable) law that says women need to cover their tops in public. That said, the general culture here is that we do cover up. I guess I really don’t understand why it is that certain attention-seekers are so quick to cry foul that their individual rights have been violated when somebody says to them “you can’t do that here!” (Just says, mind you. Nothing I read suggested that she was actually kicked off the beach, nor did I read anything about someone holding her down and forcibly putting a top on her.)
I’m struggling here, because I see a parallel here between this attention-seeker, and the publicly breastfeeding woman that Jennifer recently posted about. And I support the breastfeeding woman, while I really don’t have much use for a woman (or man) who pushes for more nudity in our already sexually-saturated society. (On the other hand, I really don’t see a whole lot of difference between going topless and wearing two tiny triangles and a bit of string). Both women are seeking attention for their particular cause.
I guess it’s just that I support breastfeeding, and if a nursing mother is going to have any sort of life at all, she is going to have to nurse her baby outside of her home. On the other hand, I really don’t see any need for a woman to go topless in public.
Human Rights:
Was considered an outflow of a worldview that saw people as worthy of respect and society to be an organism that encouraged people to achieve good for themselves and others which is an essence of freedom.
In the forgetting of what freedom is and its’ transformation to the impossible; ‘Whatever, Whenever, Wherever.’, Human Rights has become a euphemism for powerful interest groups heralding tolerance as in ‘I’m tolerant of everyone who agrees with me’ and seems nothing more than:
Pick some values
Make them Law
Impose them on others.