• @[email protected]
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    708 hours ago

    Also legal in Ontario, Canada. A woman was arrested for walking around topless in hot weather. She was finned by police but topless men in the area were not. Ontario courts eventually rulled this was discriminatory but the provincial government did not appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada so the ruling only applies in Ontario.

    • @[email protected]
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      33 hours ago

      Happy about this. A scant few hours ago I had an over the fence conversation with my neighbor and neither of us were wearing shirts. It’s the ideal way to live.

    • @Dasus
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      318 hours ago

      Yeah despite there being a law against discrimination, the cops are obviously going to use their subjective view of things like lewd behaviour to charge topless women where they wouldn’t men.

      • @[email protected]
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        218 hours ago

        That’s literally the law Ontario courts rulled cannot apply to topless women as it is discrimination.

        On July 19, 1991, a sweltering and humid day, Gwen Jacob, a University of Guelph student, was arrested after walking down a street in Guelph, Ontario while topless after removing her shirt when the temperature was 33 °C (91 °F) and was charged with indecency under Section 173(1)(a) of the Criminal Code

        • @Cryophilia
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          25 hours ago

          Oklahoma is very much not Ontario

        • @Dasus
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          88 hours ago

          Yeah. Shit, isn’t it?

          ACAB

    • @Fredselfish
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      167 hours ago

      Take Oklahoma off your list because in Tulsa they will still arrest any woman who does this. Apparently they refuse to follow that law that was passed.

      I know because the city made big fucking stink about it when Tulsa women started to go topless when it was found to be legal. So they passed and ordinance making it illegal within city limits at public spaces so practically everywhere.

      • @Cryophilia
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        45 hours ago

        Yeah, this is effectively illegal in every conservative state.

        • @MilitantAtheist
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          22 hours ago

          Yeah, this is effectively illegal in every conservative state.

          It’s because y’all qaeda hates women.

      • @njm1314
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        86 hours ago

        Have there been any lawsuits about that? Surely someone has done it so they could then sue the city right?