Women in Copenhagen can now swim and walk around in public pools without their bikini tops (5)

1 Name: Daily Mail : 2008-04-01 15:09 ID:LzPLweLp

Feminism some men may argue, has its downsides - particularly when it means they have to share the housework.

But few would protest against the latest victory for women's rights.

Ladies in Copenhagen will now be allowed to swim and walk around topless in public pools.

The decision is the result of a year-long campaign by a pressure group, the Topless Front, which says women should be treated the same as bare-chested men.

Campaign leader Astrid Vang, 20, who took her shirt off with others to protest at a leisure centre at Christmas, said: "We women would like to decide by ourselves when our breasts should be sexual and when not.

"In swimming pools they should not and that is why the breasts should not be covered - We will bathe topless just like men."

The Danish campaign was inspired by a Swedish group called Just Breasts, which was formed after two women were asked to cover up their breasts by a lifeguard at a public pool near Stockholm.

Swedish protesters carried out several full-frontal marches in their country but are still campaigning for bare-chested equality.

One of their leaders, 22-year-old Ragnhild Karlsson, said: "We want our breasts to be as normal and desexualised as men's, so that we too can pull off our shirts at football matches."

Activists expect a flurry of similar campaigns-across Europe, including in Britain.

Authorities in Vancouver, Canada - often considered to be a bastion of Victorian values - have allowed topless women in swimming pools and on beaches for several years.

The only protest against the move came from lifeguards who said they had problems knowing what to hold when rescuing swimmers in difficulties.

In Copenhagen yesterday, the city's Culture and Leisure Committee voted overwhelmingly to allow topless bathing.

Frank Hedegaard, of the Socialist People's Party, said: "I cannot understand what some people find so offensive about women's breasts.

"This decision is important in order to stop the idea that women's bodies are only sex objects."

2 Name: Unverified Source : 2008-04-02 23:21 ID:V4x8KLQq

Two things:

One: None of these women actually want to go topless. They just don't have anything better to protest.

Two: Old, Fat Women in Copenhagen can now swim and walk around in public pools without their bikini tops

3 Name: Unverified Source : 2008-04-08 01:06 ID:RJU7s5Ww

They adopted a law here in Canada that women can walk around topless in public anywhere, not just pools. Probably a good 10 years later and I have yet to see anybody do it.

4 Name: Unverified Source : 2008-04-08 14:45 ID:c4p+r16N

I don't mind if they do this.

Typically, only women who like the way their tits look will do such things, and I pretty much like the way tits look too.

5 Name: Unverified Source : 2008-04-09 19:37 ID:B7UigwuC

lol yak niggers

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