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You’re getting downvoted yet you’re making a very clear point of inequality. Maybe this is where the American (Facebook) and European (myself) cultures differ
by pushpop 7y ago
You’re getting downvoted yet you’re making a very clear point of inequality.
Maybe this is where the American (Facebook) and European (myself) cultures differ but here it’s perfectly acceptable for women to be topless in much the same way as how it’s perfectly acceptable for a man to be topless.
- abstractbarista 7y agoIt's truly astounding how uncomfortable many Americans are with breasts in general. I'm an American but I never understood this. Probably because I became skeptical of religion from a pretty young age.
- dmix 7y agoThat's not Europe vs America, that's some parts of Europe vs the rest of the world. Public nudity is very much the exception globally not the rule. But it's interesting what selective stuff people give the US credit.
- pushpop 7y agoIt’s not just Europe though. For example Australia has similar sensibilities too. Maybe a more accurate description might be: countries predominantly atheist verses countries which are not. Regardless of you want to define it, a female nipple is still no more offensive than a male one.
- mieseratte 7y ago> Regardless of you want to define it, a female nipple is still no more offensive than a male one. That's your subjective opinion.
- amanaplanacanal 7y agoAren’t they pretty much the same thing? It’s just the bodies they are attached to are different. I suppose anybody could theoretically be offended by anything.
- pushpop 7y agoI find it crazy that we, as a society, campaign for equality in one breath then invent completely fictional biological differences in the next.
- pushpop 7y agoMaybe; but it’s an educated one. People who see a distinction are operating on outdated and sexist sensibilities rather than tackling the anatomical differences behind the distinction. What if the girl is masculine and is flat chested and has short hair, is that then ok? Or what if a man has gynecomastia, should his nipples then be covered? Literally the only reasons people make a distinction is because they’re taught it’s different; but it isn’t.
- mieseratte 7y ago> Maybe; but it’s an educated one. No, it's your subjective one. Nothing educated about it.
- GordonS 7y agoI do agree to an extent, but the USA has a way more prudish stance on nudity than anywhere in most of the western world.
- belorn 7y agoIts difficult to track the source but American culture wave had a direct impact and can be fairly measured. To take a direct example, Sweden we used to censor violence, even animated violence, while nudity was perfectly acceptable. There were even a sex-education program on national TV broadcast during primer hours. Then the broadcast monopoly was eroded and a very noticeable Americanization occurred culturally. Censoring violence became unpopular and censoring nudity became more common. Old Swedish movies often included full frontal nudity, either as just a representation of normal life activity like swimming in the ocean, bathing in a sauna, or as a bit of a joke between characters. There were even discussing of banning a few of those movies because they included nude children. A common reaction to old Swedish movies is that "we had a different cultural view about nudity", but what is also noticeable is the lack of any American culture in the same movies.