In honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness month, Unspoken Issues has dedicated the entire month to Women and their Breasts. We've covered breast cancer, breastfeeding in public, women topless in public and we just had to find a great way to wrap this month up, and thanks to GoTopless.Org we have a awesome closer.
GoTopless.Org is a US organization dedicated to the belief that in order for America to be a truly equal society, women should be able to bare their breasts without fear of being arrested. Nadine Gary the director of GoTopless.Org said "It's a matter of fairness, We want equal topless rights for all or none," and I happen to agree.
Go Topless has been around since 2007, and its big push is Go Topless Day, an annual event held on the Sunday closest to Aug. 26, which is Women's Equality Day, the anniversary of the day women were given the right to vote.
Gary admits that it's one thing for the laws to be changed to reflect a woman's right to choose to go topless, but it will be harder to get women to actually do it. She is aware that America has a lot of "body-conscious" women who may not want to go topless, but the point, she says, isn't to make all women bare their breasts, but to make the option legal.
GoTopless.Org not surprisingly gets a lot of support from men, and Gary admits that some guys who attend a Go Topless rally initially act like boobs.
"Some of them take pictures at first, but then they get used to seeing women's bodies and return to normal within an hour," she said.
This year I was lucky enough to participate in Austin's Go Topless Day and I meet some wonderful people, women and men alike. I knew right then I had to have GoTopless.Org as a guest on Unspoken Issues, as Unspoken Issues is all about equality between the genders through open and honest conversations. We believe that by enlightening men you empower women for there are so many myths and falsehoods that keep the genders separated, in the dark if you will by all the restrictions placed upon us to remain silent about unspoken issues.
And this week show I am honored to say that Unspoken Issues will have Donna Newman as our guest from GoTopless.Org. I couldn't think of a better way to wrap-up this month's dedication to Women and Their Breast.
This is one show you don't want to miss and for you guys that would like more info check out GoTopless.Org site and don't forget to take time to look at the petition that will be presented to President Obama August 26, 2011.
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