• Draconic NEO
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    1112 years ago

    Why are women’s nipples considered unacceptable anyway? It seems really sexist in my opinion to say that male nipples are acceptable but female ones aren’t

    • @[email protected]
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      92 years ago

      Because most women choose to keep tops on and most cultures find them sexual. You can go topless in 95% of places in the West that allow shirts off. Women choose to keep the tops on.

    • DessertStorms
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      482 years ago

      You answered your own question there - sexism and patriarchy, which need women as objects and property, not individuals worthy of individual freedoms.

    • @[email protected]
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      352 years ago

      It wasn’t actually the nipple, it was the breast.

      But as it’s a gradual transition and cleavage, side-boob, underboob, straps and pasties have become normalized, the nipple is the only part left to define as the subject of the “issue”, as it’s the most distinguishable, visually separate and definable part.

      The conservative prudes would prefer a more comprehensive ban, but struggle immensely in legally defining the line of “okay/not okay” in a court of law. They find it much easier to enforce certain clothes as legally obligatory for women, but there’s very little support for that kind of oppression in most parts of the world.

    • @[email protected]
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      332 years ago

      In a decent number of countries, they are pretty relaxed. You go there, you see nipple (or dick) for 5 seconds, it’s notable, then it fades into the background. People are just anal-retentive about it because of religion and family culture.

    • @[email protected]
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      552 years ago

      It’s just because of sexualixation and prude people pressuring the fuck out of those platforms. Although a bit unnecessary imho I don’t mind seeing a tiddy on insta, they’ll have to add a nsfw tag tho. Insta is prob going to decline into even more onlyfans advertisements

    • @[email protected]
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      132 years ago

      Thanks for the article OP, but it’s got a clickbatey headline, it doesn’t actually answer what took so long (or investigate why they made the change in the first place.)

      • @[email protected]OP
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        I think it was a rhetorical question.

        I posted it because they point out the problems with this unequal body censorship and show that things are hopefully changing.

        With the shift to Lemmy, instances and communities could stand with the ‘free the nipple’ movement. Let’s be the change.

  • pushka
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    682 years ago

    and when someone transitions… it’s … the /same/ nipple, but it used to be illegal and unseemly - but now is perfectly legal to show everywhere , strange…

    • @[email protected]
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      572 years ago

      There was an Instagram account run by a trans woman called something like “Do I have boobs yet?”. She posted on a regular basis after starting hormones to see when the censors would kick in

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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        142 years ago

        For the other way round it would be vice versa, which is even more funny IMO - all of a sudden showing your previously legal nipples in public is now illegal

    • @[email protected]
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      162 years ago

      My nipples certainly aren’t the same, they’re far larger and the shape has changed, it’s pretty insane actually. Our bodies are way more plastic than we think.

    • Maestro
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      842 years ago

      I’ve seen a surgery documentary on TV about transitioning. They showed the surgeon doing the breast surgery. It was all uncensored, nipples and all, until the very second the doc put the silicone bag under the skin. Then they pixelated the nipple. The same nipple they were showing all along.

      • @[email protected]
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        2 years ago

        I once saw a Japanese arse eating video like that, no pixelation until the tongue touched the rim, then pixelated as if we didn’t know what was happening.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        Came here to tell the same story. They used to play some crazy shit on TLC before the reality show takeover.

      • @[email protected]
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        402 years ago

        Makes you wonder at what size of breasts does it become NSFW and should men with boobs be censored? 🤔

  • @[email protected]
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    152 years ago

    How can we be sure … what if we all use it and later discover we have been banned since this nipple comes from a wonderful wemen uhh …

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    262 years ago

    We had a high school assistant principal who made the men’s swim team cover their nipples in yearbook photographs.

      • @[email protected]
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        222 years ago

        Because we are talking about unacceptable female nipple, isn’t it?

        Or maybe the problem isn’t the nipple itself, but the context in which it’s shown.

        And, after all, your are still free to put OP’s male nipple on these pictures :)

        • DessertStorms
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          Or maybe the problem isn’t the nipple itself, but the context in which it’s shown.

          In the meme you posted, the context of the photo on the left is basically sexual assault (one person exposing another without their consent), and the meme itself implies that the (justified) reaction to it is overblown, as if it is comparable to someone willingly exposing themselves.
          It is not.
          The meme is a really bad take in its own right, and has nothing to do with free the nipple.

          • @[email protected]
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            112 years ago

            How is the meme on the right non consensual? That lady is smiling in the photo and people from Africa are not fucking idiots. They know they’re being photographed for National Geographic. She clearly does not give a fuck.

            • Fushuan [he/him]
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              32 years ago

              The right one implies consent, the left one doesn’t that’s why it’s wrong because the meme implies that both are similar and thus the reaction to the left was overblown, which is wrong because the context is completely different.

              • @[email protected]
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                52 years ago

                If they’re trying to imply Janet Jackson was sexually assaulted over a simple accident that literally happened live on TV that no one could anticipate or stop, then I don’t know what to tell them.

                Did Janet Jackson ask for the wardrobe malfunction photos to be erased from the internet?

              • @[email protected]
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                02 years ago

                When u said it was non consensual. If I’m nude and look at a camera smiling, I think that implies there was prior consent.

  • Franzia
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    272 years ago

    Not only are female breasts legal where I live IRL, many Lemmy communities consider them SFW under non-sexual conditions. Godspeed everybody, free the nipple!

  • Spliffman1
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    12 years ago

    Please learn to differentiate between areolae and nipples.