Woman should be allowed to be topless in public.

So before we jump into this, I want to address an issue that comes up multiple times throughout your argument. Do you believe that men and woman should get fair treatment? 1. Yes, Men and woman have different body types. This means we should treat them different medically (at the doctor's office or during informal medical treatment). Socially, However, They should have all of the same freedoms as Men. You talked about it being the norm. Socially, You're correct. Legally, However, There are only 4 states that actually make it illegal at all and 10 have ambiguous laws that don't necessarily restrict it. The rest of the states allow it outright. So if it's cool with you, Which I believe it is, We can throw the legal issue off the table. 2. I would need you to explain how this or any other double standard is necessary. Because saying that something is necessary is a pretty big claim. For you to prove this, You would have to show that there is no alternative. Since alternatives can be practically limitless, Your work is cut out for you. 3. Lets pin this down. I believe this issue is amoral (having nothing to do with morals at all) and is actually a practical issue. There is a moral argument involved, But not from the act of toplessness itself. So I'll address the practical issue first. So speaking practically, There is no real difference between a man or a woman being topless. We're all just meat sack and our chests are the same. Woman just have bigger chests. Practically speaking, The main reason that men make a big deal out of a topless woman is because it is taboo. So this stigma is actually part of the problem. If woman walk around topless all the time, People wouldn't even think about it. But we're so repressed as a species that people go nuts when the clothes come off. Now the moral argument. This actually goes back to something you said: "Don't you think it speaks volumes that women aren't comfortable being topless in places that it's legal in? Perhaps they don't want to get cat calls every second or to get sexually harassed" Yes, It does speak volumes. It speaks volumes about how poor women get treated in society. It speaks volumes about how fundamentally our culture has accepted victim shaming. A question. If a woman is enjoying her legal in 36 state right to be topless and a man sexually harasses her, How should we handle that? Should we arrest the harasser, Or violate the victims legal right? I believe it's the former and I challenge you to find a flaw in this logic. If we can all agree that sexual harassment is wrong and combine that with the fact that woman have a legal right to be topless, Then the answer becomes obvious. You said: "Women (not all women) are quick to scream sexual harassment and men are already seen in this bad light of being oversexualized perverted demon" That's because people are quick to sexually harass. Women have been silence for thousands of years and they're using the voice that they now have. There is nothing wrong with that and your comment basically amounts to victim shaming. A question, Is men being seen in a bad light worth stripping a woman of her civil rights? The answer is no. If men want to stop being seen in a bad light, Then they should stop standing in the light. If conditions improved for woman, They wouldn't feel the need to be so protective of themselves. How would you feel if someone bigger, Stronger, And more socially powerful than you was making your life a living hell and you knew you would be silenced if you tried to fight back? I'm guessing you'd bring the axe down on anyone who even tried in the future. That's what woman are doing. They're demonstrating that they're not putting up with the BS anymore and good for them. 4. No I mean the literal public. Obviously they'd have to follow the same shirt and shoe rule that men also follow when they're in a store or something. But out on the street they have the legal right and therefore they should not be shamed out of enjoying that right. I don't care if they only exercise that right once a year. That's what its' there for. Quite frankly, I think you're the one going in the wrong direction. Men are treating woman like objects and your solution is to protect the men from their victims? Everything about that is wrong. I urge you to reconsider your position on this. TV censorship is no better at this. Television will show nasty stuff all day but kicks woman harder. Men get blowjobs all the time on TV? No problem. Woman gets oral on TV? Everyone loses their mind. The real reason we have this stigma is because of misguided puritan values that said anyone who was naked was a savage. Probably people with micropenises if you ask me. But that's just a side note. Like I said earlier in this statement. There are only 4 states that even officially count it as a crime. A man nipple is no different than a woman nipple. Meat is meat. Lets get out of the dark ages and stop objectifying woman please. To your concluding question. Same rules that would apply to a little boy. I suppose you'll say that it provokes child molesters? All of my previous arguments apply to this as well. Lock up the child molester and leave the little girl alone. If she wants a shirt, She'll put it on herself without help from judgmental onlookers.