デンマークで、女性がトップレスで泳ぐ権利が可決される(写真有)
デンマークでは、女性がプールでトップレスで泳ぐ権利が、圧倒的多数で可決されたらしい！！！
これは、「女性も男性と同様に胸を出しても良いはずだ」と言って活動してきたトップレス・フロントという団体の１年にわたる努力の賜物である。(素晴らしい！)
この活動は、スウェーデンでの活動に感化されたものらしいが、ヨーロッパ全域に広がっていきそうなものらしい。(これまた素晴らしい！)
ある政党の男性(←ここ重要)は「なぜ女性の胸を不快に感じる人がいるのか分からない。今回の決定は、女性の体を性の対象としてだけで見るのを止めるという点で極めて重要である」と言っている。
いやはや、男女同権論者のこのワタクシとしては、これには諸手を挙げて大賛成である。
早急に我が国でも同じような運動を行ってほしいものである。
日本で同じ権利が確立されるまでは、泳ぎたいときはヨーロッパまで出向くことにしよう。多少の出費は仕方ない。
なお、この決定に唯一反対しているのは、ライフガードの人たちで、おぼれている人を助けるときにどこを掴んで良いのか分からないとぼやいているらしい。
なんなら、このワタクシ、ライフガードも買って出ますが。。。
追記)
ところで、このニュースに付いていたこの写真、、、
せっかく話題がトップレスなのに、これでは意味がないだろうが。。。
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(引用)
Victory for the Topless Front: Women in Copenhagen can now swim and walk around in public pools without their bikini tops
Daily Mail
Last updated at 23:03pm on 28th March 2008
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."
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