I like the way the lawyer got the charge of public nudity dismissed on the technicality that the summons failed to state which body part she exposed, but that he had also loftier arguments:
Women in New York are entitled to bare their breasts under "equal protection" rules since men are allowed to bare theirs, ... and anyone may bare all if they do so during a "play, performance, exhibition or show."
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Talk about the loophole that swallows the rule! For better or worse, every bare body part sufficient to attract law enforcement's notice is an "exhibition," probably also "show," and quite likely a "performance."
people are way too hung up over nudity
what makes a nose any less perverse than a penis
As I understand things (and my legal understanding is decidedly limited), public nudity isn't what most jurisdictions ban (though some do), rather lewd acts, so if you can demonstrate that your display was not meant to be lewd nor taken as being lewd by anyone around you aren't in violation of any code.
That construction of the law does suggests however that the degree of flesh that leads to lewdness depends on the audience, so that if you were a woman bearing her ankles and arms in front of a conservative mosque, even on the public sidewalk, couldn't that be considered lewd behavior if the display was intended to offend her audience?
Whereas conversely, being bare assed naked at UC Berkeley (as one student famously did for his years there not long ago) is perfectly within the conventions of the community and therefore in no way lewd as long as no lewd acts are engaged.
"Kuby said Faisal's father was a Syrian government communications minister who resigned after Hafez al-Assad, dictator who ruled Syria for some 30 years, came to power."
So is Miss Faisal a Muslim? If so, I find it ironic that she's running around taking her clothes off in public.
Saul: A nose is a nose is a nose. But a penis is sometimes a cigar and what could be more perverse than a cigar?
The naked peace activist is the new naked warrior.
Yoko Ono also took her clothes off, or had them cut off her with scissors, as an anti-war statement of some kind.
She's got a point. I might not agree with her message but I'd stop and read it. Twice even.
47 years old? Odds are I'm not interested in seeing or hearing any of her messages.
what makes a nose any less perverse than a penis?
Actually, there are several former Afghani rulers that would agree with you, at least if the nose was a female's.
Of course the answer is the sexuality envolved. You could respond that it's merely a social construction, but so what?
I'm reminded of the actress Sally Kirkland, who gained notoriety in the late 1960s for her willingness - indeed, her seeming eagerness - to perform roles in the nude.
In an interview, Kirkland said she regarded her onstage/onscreen nudity as an antiwar statement, saying, "You can't carry a gun on a naked body."
Sally wasn't very creative.
saul wrote, "what makes a nose any less perverse than a penis[?]"
I'm not sure. But noses can usually be blown in public without attracting undue attention.
In all the times I've seen people write about spewing their coffee over someone's humorous comment, that always seemed contrived -- until Beldar's last entry.
I think we should send her over to Iraq and let her try that and see what happens. Maybe then she would understand why we are there.
Obviously, the guys of the world think this is a great way for women to protest. However, would a feminist feel that using a woman's body to convince someone of something constitutes prostituting themselves? What would Andrea Dworkin have said?
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