After Smoking in Receptionist’s Face Dissing Smoking Ban, Women Tries Tackling Than #FreeTheNipple As A Weapon Against Security Guard.

Ripping off her shirt in revenge for asking her to stop smoking, she threatened a lawsuit manipulating anti-groping laws. Instead, the #FreeTheNipple woman, emphasized not just the exploding violence against men & law enforcement, but how making #GoTopless legal could undermine the laws meant to protect the 1 in 5 women who are victims of sexual violence. If a guard or anyone touched an exposed male chest trying to remove a violator = little risk of lawsuit. But if #FreeTheNipple became legal & common place = guards & police live in fear of… If they make one wrong move in direct contact with exposed female breasts, because our laws were designed to defend the overwhelmingly greater majority of women seeking protection from sexual assault their lives could be destroyed. #FreeTheNipple what are you going to say to the over 20% of women effected by sexual violence if you end up making it harder for them to protect themselves from real gropers because you are asking a jury to split hairs & just empowering whoever can pay for the best lawyer? This summer, female police officers had to remove the women who freed the nipple in the face of a 7 year old boy trying to innocently watch a soccer game.

Defiant woman who #FreeTheNipple in front of 7 yr old boy, carried out of soccer game by police for exposure – https://t.co/3xswnzoTI1 pic.twitter.com/6TuTvDYYKe

— FreeTheSexploited (@FreeSexploited) September 27, 2017

#FreeTheNipple is a problem is search of a greater problem. #YouAreBetterThanThis like Berkeley City Council instructed… https://www.facebook.com/247941085564461/videos/490531137972120/ Care about the greater number of women at risk. Join the movement to #FreeTheSexploited http://freethesexploited.com/join-the-movement/

According to the Mirror: This is the bizarre moment a woman appears to use her breasts as a weapon in a fight with a security guard after she was allegedly forbidden from smoking in a shop.

CCTV footage caught the woman whipping off her top and throwing it at the guard after she was told to stand outside the betting shop if she wanted to smoke.

It is believed the strange fight took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The scene starts with the woman walking into the shop with a lit cigarette.

The security guard follows her inside and promptly tells her that smoking is banned inside the premises.

In response, the woman charges at the security guard – who is twice her size – and pushes him into a corner, apparently trying to tackle him.

With little other choice, the security guard then picks her up, throws her over his shoulder, and carries her outside.

But she defiantly returns five minutes later with a cup of water.

Splashing it in his face and reportedly saying: “Now try to lay your hands on me, I’ll see you in court if you do!”

When that attack manoeuvre does not work, the woman takes of her white top – revealing her breasts – and tosses it at the security guard, who appears to be confused about what to do next.

He picks up her top and tries to cover her up, all the while ushering her out of the building once more.

Neither the security guard or the woman have been identified.

Local police have not commented on the incident and it has not been reported whether the girl was arrested for her antics.

Bold women refuses to be shamed & press ganged into #FreeTheNipple . @Phillies #YouAreBetterThanThis pic.twitter.com/yXz71WJCYA

— FreeTheSexploited (@FreeSexploited) September 29, 2017

PHOTO: There is an unhealthy dynamic when topless or near-naked women serve men who are fully clothed. (ABC)

MAP: Merriwa 6030

There is no shortage of businesses still clinging to traditional sexism, capitalising on exploiting women’s bodies and sexuality, despite a growing societal awareness into the harms of objectification.

Ian Strover, owner of Perth tavern The Sixty30, has spent almost five years trying to introduce topless waitresses into the venue.

His application attracted objections from local residents, police and women’s rights groups, but garnered support from those who share his financial motivations, including the managing director of Perth’s Best Girls stripping agency, Natalie Baker, who recruited support for the application on social media.

To date, his applications and an appeal have been denied by the Liquor Commission.

“It is also important to distinguish between the public interest and private interests … the application is primarily concerned with the private financial interests of the applicant and the operators of Perth’s Best Girls,” noted the director of Liquor Licensing.

“Whilst ‘Dan the Man’, ‘Show me pussy’, ‘Robbo’, ‘Marshy’, ‘Bob’, ‘Jacko’, ‘Swanny’, ‘Fido’, and others may want to see strippers at the hotel based on their signing of the questionnaire, there is nothing before the commission that is capable of establishing that the variation of the licence is in the public interest.”

This latest rejection has not deterred Mr Strover, who has already invested $40,000 in legal costs in his righteous battle for boobs on demand, and has pledged to take his fight all the way to the Supreme Court if he has to — God forbid venue patrons have to suffer the minor inconvenience of not being able to ogle women’s naked breasts while they drink a beer.

Power imbalance

The reason sexual entertainment exists and maintains some appeal is simple: the fully clothed men who frequent such venues get a kick out of being served by women wearing little or no clothing.

Author and sociologist Dr Gail Dines explains: “It’s no accident that in prisons the first thing a prisoner has to do is strip naked, because to be naked in the presence of somebody clothed is to be in a vulnerable situation.”

Consider the power dynamic at play when topless or near-naked women serve fully dressed men.

These unequal power relations are the very premise sexual entertainment venues are built on.

Women are reduced to decorative objects, eye candy or merely sexy props, whose job it is smile, flirt and boost men’s flailing egos without presenting the sort of threat that comes with being regarded as an equal.

A toll on all women

Researchers have documented the psychological toll for female employees in workplace settings where sexual objectification of women is endorsed, from so-called “breastraunts” (think Hooters) to strip clubs.

These women describe sexual harassment, unwanted lewd comments and sexual advances, reporting feeling a range of negative emotions such as anxiety, depressed mood and degradation.

A report from Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia includes scenarios of female staff in strip clubs experiencing degrading and abusive treatment from male customers, such as being spat on, sprayed with beer and having men trying to pull their clothes off.

Research indicates women report increased harassment, abuse and violence in areas in close proximity to sexual entertainment venues.

The Victorian Prostitution Control Act Advisory Committee report found such sites created “no go” zones for women by cultivating an environment unsafe for women, with patrons harassing women outside clubs, with cat-calling, harassment and “open hostility” and the assumption being “any woman is up for sex”.

Attitudes behind the violence

More broadly, men’s violence against women is on our radar: we recognise it is at epidemic levels and urgent steps must be taken to rectify it.

But it’s not enough to merely condemn violence against women. In order to see any meaningful changes we need to address the roots of male violence and identify the cultural conditions in which violence against women thrives, such as gender inequality, casual sexism and an entitlement to women’s bodies.

There are those who argue that if women want to work in sexual entertainment, then it should be legitimised. But as Dr Meagan Tyler, Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow at RMIT, explains: “If you allow some women to be bought and sold for men’s sexual arousal or entertainment, then you compromise the position of all women in a community.”

All women are affected. And all government initiatives to address men’s violence against women undermined.

It’s time to decide where our values lie — with men’s “right” to accessing breasts on demand or with upholding the full humanity and status of women?

Caitlin Roper is a campaigner against the sexual exploitation of women and girls.

Excerpt from Vogue

#FreeTheNipple’s Lena Dunham:

I saw an elderly swinger with a playful pair of sunglasses tattooed above his penis stretch into a spontaneous sun salute… I was immediately struck by just how many conversations were happening with a man’s penis at his seated companion’s eye level, and every squeamish childlike instinct in my body rose up, releasing itself as a sound that can only be spelled “yrrrgghhhoooggghhh.”

From My Joy Online

Musician Belinda Akua Amoah, who bears the moniker Mzbel, has admitted that the ‘bad girl’ brand she portrayed during her heydays in the music industry did not help her.

Mzbel told Lexis Bill on Behind the Fame on Drive Time on Joy FM that her nude photos and appearance ‘never helped’ advance her career in anyway.

She said that she was unaware that her actions were wrong because she was young and wanted to have fun.

The singer added that her acquaintances never cautioned her on her choice of lifestyle except for criticisms from the media circles.

The ‘16 Years’ hit maker said that she realised her waywardness only five years ago and that she never liked the ‘bad girl’ brand she was associated with.

She explained that her past has taught her vital lessons about life.

By Kylie Lang

But amid calls for “equality” from #FreeTheNipple is a little thing called social responsibility.

Celebrities like Jenner, Miley Cyrus, Bella Hadid and every Kardashian you can think of are not simply dressing for themselves.

They are dressing for millions and millions of followers worldwide, including girls as young as eight, girls who do not have the emotional maturity to understand their sexuality or how to express it in an age-appropriate way.

Kendall Jenner has more than 82.5 million followers on the photo-sharing platform Instagram, while her half-sister Kim Kardashian has 102 million. Kylie Jenner has 96.3 million.

Think they don’t influence young minds? Google #kyliejennerlipchallengegonewrong and you’ll see what happens when children try to imitate her surgically enhanced pout by putting their lips in a shot glass and inhaling.

Bleeding, lopsided lips are only part of it. It’s skewed notions of self-worth that are the greatest concern.

Placing exaggerated emphasis on physical appearance diminishes the importance of emotional wellness. And it is a deeply unfulfilling exercise.

Catharine Lumby is a media professor at Macquarie University and led a three-year study into the social media lives of 13-17 year olds.

Lumby says Instagram and other platforms have irrevocably changed the way kids view sex, love and relationships and how they communicate. The exchange of explicit images is as common as “pashing at parties”.

Social media is here to stay and its users are getting young and younger.

In 2013, YouTube, Moshi Monsters and Club Penguin were the most common sites accessed by kids aged eight to 11. Now it’s Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube.

Girls as young as 10 are being coerced by same-age boys into sending nude photos of themselves, says psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg.

So it’s no longer only high school students who are at risk of the negative spin offs of social media use, including bullying, exploitation, eating disorders, depression or worse.

The pressure to look perfect — as defined by Jenner and co — is intense.

Look at the effort kids put into posting selfies — these might look like casual snaps but they’re far from it — and note the obsessive counting of “likes” and the charged comments such as “ur hot”, “what a ho” and “so f…able”.

Look at the way some girls dress for school formals. The aim is to wear as little as possible, with a wardrobe malfunction a la Janet Jackson at the 2004 Super Bowl almost a goal in itself. Hollywood tape, who needs it?

Parents and educators can talk to kids about self-respect, equality and being comfortable in their own skin — and they must — but when the idols of young people are social media exhibitionists, we are unlikely to see a return anytime soon to the days of style icon Audrey Hepburn, who said, “elegance is the only beauty that never fades”.

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