Topless march draws massive crowd on Main Street
By Scott Monroe
FARMINGTON — Under an afternoon sun today, they came pouring onto Main Street: a massive wave of people accompanied by a clown and unicyclist, flags, signs, cellphones, video cameras, yelling, cheering, horn-honking and bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Elaine Graham tries to cover up a topless demonstrator in Farmington's Meeting House Friday afternoon.
Staff photo by David Leaming
It could have been a raucous Fourth of July parade. But, no, it was the last day of April — and there were dozens of topless women and men leading the way.
Hundreds of people lined the sidewalks and street of this college town, while clusters of protesters held signs in opposition to the march.
Among the crowd on Main Street was 104-year-old Marion Wing of Phillips, who looked across the street in amazement.
“I’ve never seen anything in my entire life like this and I hope never to again,” Wing said.
Directing the bare-skinned walkers was Andrea Simoneau, 22, of Brooks, a senior at the University of Maine at Farmington who organized “Farmington’s First Female Bodied Topless March,” modeled after a topless march she attended recently in Portland.
UMF officials said the university had no involvement in the march, which ended at a park on campus.
Resident Elaine Graham, wearing a blue baseball cap with a red cross on it, took on the most active protest role by following topless women throughout the route and holding up a blue blanket to cover them.
Before the march, Graham confronted Simoneau and challenged her.
“I want to send a message that public nudity degrades girls,” said Graham, who had arrived at 11 a.m. to begin her public protest. “You’re degrading yourself,” Graham said to Simoneau. “You’re sending the wrong message.”
Simoneau thanked Graham “for coming out to express your opinion” and said she admires that form of free speech as well.
Before the half-mile march started about 1 p.m. in a crowded Meetinghouse Park, a bare-chested Simoneau stood up in a gazebo and rallied the assembled to march in the name of women’s rights. Simoneau told the crowd that the march highlights the fact that it’s legal in Maine for women to go topless in public, but she also wants it to become socially acceptable just as men are able to take off their shirts.
Simoneau said she had chosen to ignore criticism of the march and “focus on empowerment” instead.
“Please be respectful and do not engage protesters,” Simoneau yelled before the march proceeded.
‘Like a circus’
At Tranten’s grocery store on Main Street, shortly after the march concluded, manager Sondra Castonguay said the store had been a little busier than usual because of the large crowds. Otherwise, though, “it’s business as usual here,” she said.
Several Farmington police officers directed traffic and kept watch during the march. Police said they received no reports of problems or accidents related to the march.
“There’s nothing we’ve been made aware of,” said Bonnie Pomeroy, dispatch secretary for Farmington police. “It was very quiet and peaceful.”
Actually, it wasn’t that quiet.
“It’s almost like a circus,” said Dalene Pulk of Carthage, as she held up a protest sign — “Pornography doesn’t belong on the streets” — beside fellow protesters on Main Street.
The circus atmosphere seemed reinforced by a topless male who rode a unicycle among marchers on the sidewalk and Russ Mathers, of Carthage, who walked around with his face painted like the clown villain “The Joker.”
“This doesn’t promote women’s cause — it’s just for fun. What does this prove?” Mathers said. “So I came out to be sillier. I’m out here for fun and to make fun.”
But the message of the march was serious for the people participating.
John Rosenwald, 66, of Farmington, approached one topless woman and asked how he could best support them: joining in or watching silently. He didn’t want to impose on the women’s cause.
“She said joining would be great, so that’s what I’m going to do,” Rosenwald said. “So that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to take my shirt off.”
Wearing a pink feather boa around her neck, topless marcher Angela Sweenhart, 39, of Farmington, said it was a “great cause,” even though she was “a little worried” before the march began.
As Sweenhart spoke, a large, gray-bearded man wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket shuffled over, pointed digital camera at her, clicked the button, and turned away. Did that bother her?
“I’m comfortable with that, because I have nothing to be ashamed of,” she said.
Joni Marks, 31, a sophomore at the University of Maine at Augusta, said she decided to join the march because of the “double standard that men can be topless,” while even women who bare their breasts in public to nurse babies can be chided, she said.
Marks said she was bothered by “50 cameras snapping all at once” when she took her shirt off. “It’s like they’ve never seen a boob before; it’s like a peep show,” she said. “I’m a little overwhelmed with everyone here.”
Donald Pinkham, 64, of New Sharon, asked for permission to have his photo taken with Simoneau and said he used to be a member of a nudist colony in Albion.
“To do this really takes a lot of courage,” he said.
Erin Simoneau, 19, of Searsport, Andrea’s younger sister, said it was her first time being topless in public and that she was a little nervous with the hectic scene. But it was worth it to further equality rights with her sister, she said.
“She suggested I come and I said I’d do that for her,” she said.
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95 COMMENTS
Jack said...
I love it. Maybe a national movement is brewing. Can they send out a newsletter with the date that they will march in my town? The sight of them marching must have been quite uplifting.
April 30, 2010 at 4:07 PM Report abuse
TheSaint said...
"Several Farmington police officers directed traffic and kept watch during the march"._____Of course they kept watch. They're human too!
April 30, 2010 at 4:10 PM Report abuse
sulynne805 said...
If there is no law prohibiting women from being topless in public in Maine - then what is the problem? Men can not go to work without a shirt (most jobs) they can't get service in a restaurant and some Cumberland Farms signs say no shirt, no shoes no service. If you get up in the morning and put a shirt on that is your choice - no one makes you go to the store pick out that shirt, pay for it and then wear it -- if you don't want to then don't! This equal BS is being carried to the extreme and I for one am getting sick of the the crying -- Grow up, wear a shirt don't wear a shirt -- but with no law standing in your way, it is called choice. Don't be a follower if you want to stand out in the crowd by all means go topless in public because you will get the attention you want.
April 30, 2010 at 4:17 PM Report abuse
Concerned said...
I am sick of these woman. They never know where to draw the line. My children don't need an eyeful. Where are your morals? You want to go topless, stay in your own yard!
April 30, 2010 at 4:17 PM Report abuse
Relax said...
The things people will do to get attention! They would have gotten a lot more if they had made it a topless gun toting extravaganza. Throw in a topless car wash and half the state would have shown up!
April 30, 2010 at 4:21 PM Report abuse
rushme said...
COOL GIRLS GONE WILD IS IN TOWN!!! and Concerned cheer up The Gay parade is cuming soon for your to enjoy!
April 30, 2010 at 4:23 PM Report abuse
Page5Girl said...
no elaine, nobody wants to cuddle topless with you beneath the blue blanket. MEOW!
April 30, 2010 at 4:28 PM Report abuse
Tammi9999 said...
Great job ladies...fix your hair pretty, do your makeup, walk proudly, and don't you worry your pretty lil' heads - the men folk are working, keeping the country going, and making plenty of dough so you don't have to fret your little noggins - he'll have shopping money for ya! Oh, and get your nails done, and don't worry your little mind about politics and money stuff, the men have you covered!
April 30, 2010 at 4:32 PM Report abuse
hillbilly said...
Elaine is getting an eye full, why doesn't she want the rest of us to?
April 30, 2010 at 4:33 PM Report abuse
null said...
Looks like Elaine's holding her snuggly kind of low.... We got some drooping going on already on that young lady? shiver.....
April 30, 2010 at 4:36 PM Report abuse
Jack%27sDaddy said...
Who's got the video?
April 30, 2010 at 4:36 PM Report abuse
null said...
Oh dear...lighten up people! It's Spring in Maine, finally, so let's just enjoy the fact we can get outside and watch nature happening right before our eyes! Nothing but dandelion fluff in the wind. Relax is right, though, that would have been quite a spectacle to include another special interest group and could have been conceived as a great start for the tourism season. Remember, what's most important is finding ways to boost Maine's economy and keeping young people in Maine. If this is the start of something new... well, so be it.
April 30, 2010 at 4:37 PM Report abuse
Hipupchuck said...
Everybody wants to know a proud, uninhibited woman like these.
April 30, 2010 at 4:39 PM Report abuse
null said...
Farmington :) Hey Bubba..What say you and me take the pickup on down the road and check out some of them ti**ies! We're in for some fun today!! Look at the frenzy in that picture.
April 30, 2010 at 4:39 PM Report abuse
JayTee said...
This thread is useless without pics.
April 30, 2010 at 4:40 PM Report abuse
null said...
please note, that 4:36 pm comment was not mind. there must be another "null" out there?? just want to give credit where credit is due...
April 30, 2010 at 4:43 PM Report abuse
oldgrump said...
I'm a little concerned. A certain "christian leader" thought this was important enough for him to comment on, yet there is no mention of him at the rally? Is he not feeling well? Are gas prices to much for him to afford to go? Did he not feel strongly enough on this issue to persue his "agenda"? Or has the media decided he's had enough grandstanding this year and realized it's time to ignore him?
April 30, 2010 at 4:44 PM Report abuse
ScottTopsum said...
If Mrs. Wing didn't ever want to see such a thing in her life, she could simply have stayed home and not seen it.
April 30, 2010 at 4:46 PM Report abuse
null said...
I've been null my hole life. Maybe some boobies will change things.
April 30, 2010 at 4:46 PM Report abuse
null said...
Too bad it wasn't cold out!! Then we could have played ring toss too!!
April 30, 2010 at 4:47 PM Report abuse
DP said...
Just ignore them......
April 30, 2010 at 4:53 PM Report abuse
bubbagump said...
Yee hah. We all goin up to FAMington today to get some BEAH and see sumthin I aint seen for a long time. Wicked awesome. Lets make a day of it mistaman. This is gonna be wicked goooood i heah. Don't tell Mutha what we is up to Mistaman I will catch heck for showah. Hee hee
April 30, 2010 at 4:57 PM Report abuse
Merrigan said...
Marion Wing lived at a time when reserve, kindness and mutual respect meant something, not exhibitionism. It's too bad she had to see these idiots.
April 30, 2010 at 4:57 PM Report abuse
BlueEyes2 said...
Ya know...we can all sit here and belittle this gal and all these topless folks. Call them names and whatever. BUT.....it took guts for them to stand up for what they all believed in, though we all may think it's trivial,it took alot of guts to do what they all did. Guts I bet the majority of us don't have. No..there is no way in the world I would bare my breasts to the world nor do I think her issue is important. But I find her courage and her ability to take such a stand in something she believes in very impressive.
April 30, 2010 at 5:07 PM Report abuse
Dino90000000 said...
A woman going around with a blue blanket to cover them up = Too funny!! That this is such a big deal perfectly makes the organizers point.
April 30, 2010 at 5:16 PM Report abuse
snowgo said...
sulynne805, my thoughts EXACTLY! What is the problem if there is no law prohibiting toplessness? Ironically, there probably will soon be a law passed against toplessness! I have always taught my kids that what makes us different from animals is that we are civilized, i.e. wear clothes, etc. I view men with disdain that walk around without a shirt-classless and uncivilized.
April 30, 2010 at 5:16 PM Report abuse
AmazedAgain said...
You have to wonder what these "crusaders" are going to say to their daughters many years from now?
April 30, 2010 at 5:24 PM Report abuse
SacoSam said...
The inventor of the Snuggy is inspired (hrmm.....Boob socks?)
April 30, 2010 at 5:30 PM Report abuse
Janey said...
A clown and a unicyclist???
April 30, 2010 at 5:36 PM Report abuse
David said...
Stupid and hilarious. More proof that only those who SHOULDN'T go topless (male and female) are the ones most likely TO go topless. Ouch.
April 30, 2010 at 5:40 PM Report abuse
BonusEleven said...
Ah, the future professionals of our once great nation. Topless and parading down Main Street in the middle of a workday.....
April 30, 2010 at 5:43 PM Report abuse
Hipupchuck said...
They should have had the Vassalboro topless coffee shop girls up there serving coffee.
April 30, 2010 at 5:51 PM Report abuse
Dino90000000 said...
The woman in the picture with the blue blanket is surrounded by guys with video cameras. What are those women and their boobs going to do next?
April 30, 2010 at 5:53 PM Report abuse
Hipupchuck said...
Watching a volleyball game on a nude beach in Australia is more fun than a topless march in Farmington.
April 30, 2010 at 5:58 PM Report abuse
Dino90000000 said...
Marion Wing also was alive when a woman was not allowed to vote for their President.
April 30, 2010 at 6:11 PM Report abuse
TWFuZHlKbw%3D%3D said...
I think we need to get all the men now to march with no underwear on so all of us woman can see what they got!we should be able to start advertizing products using men as sex objects to sell more cosmetics to woman...lol. This march is in direct conflict with womans rights. Woman are exploited in our society enough already. Being free is about having boundaries, integrity, and living up to ones potential as a human being. Its not about being exploited. We can have equal rights, when men are flaunted in G-strings, their is a strip club with naked men in it, in every other city, and their are hot, sexy, tanned, men on billboards everywhere, telling them what they should look and feel like. Telling them where their place is in sociaty...when men are as exploited as woman, then we will have equal rights in this country.
April 30, 2010 at 6:33 PM Report abuse
DasBoot said...
The idiocy continues
April 30, 2010 at 7:06 PM Report abuse
icu2 said...
Quite frankly, who cares? What is the big deal and why are people so offended by this? Are we that backward a society that we can not accept without prejudice? In many countries nudity is socially acceptable and people do not make a big deal of it.
April 30, 2010 at 7:14 PM Report abuse
fishin said...
TWFuZHlKbw%3D%3D oh yes, the exploitation of women. ho hum
April 30, 2010 at 7:15 PM Report abuse
noohbumma said...
Judging by most of the comments being in favor is sad...Its so sad that people are stooping to such levels in life...It really is if you think about it...
April 30, 2010 at 7:29 PM Report abuse
CitizenCarin said...
This has to be THE most EXCITING thing EVER to happen in Farmington! The Chester Greenwood Earmuff Parade, the Moonlight Madness event on Broadway, and the Farmington Fair NEVAH drew a crowd like this! Traffic was jammed on every street! It looked like a scene from one of those 'evacuation because the end is near' movies! And the men! The men! Whoa! They came on HOVER-ROUND scooters, on motorcycles, by foot, bicycle, and even in baby strollers! I bet a tractor pull nevah created a traffic jam like this in Farmington! For the sake of the local economy, lets hope this becomes a monthly event -- Topless Tuesday or something, or Freedom Friday. Lots of gas, ice cream, bottled water, sandwiches, and other items were purchased in town by people who usually spend money elsewhere. Chamber of Commerce: Offer Ms. Simoneau a job promoting tourism! Bravo to these Topless Freedom Fighters!
April 30, 2010 at 7:32 PM Report abuse
friend said...
How about someone in Farmington invents "boob-muffs"? Since they did so well with ear-muffs why not?
April 30, 2010 at 7:37 PM Report abuse
CitizenCarin said...
For the woman who lamented the "Pornography in the Streets" -- excuse me? Pornography? Like magazine spreads and erotic films? Lady -- get a grip! Are your own breasts pornographic? Probably not! A breast is a breast. Did you ever take an art history course? Or worse yet, did you ever take a drawing class with a live, nude model? Nudity does not equal porn, unless perhaps you were masturbating while you protested these girls. As for "That Graham Woman" -- next time I see you wearing spandex or polyester, I'm going to run after you and try to cover you up with something attractive. If you're gonna wear clothes, at least make them 'nice' to look at -- please, someone, cover Elaine so the rest of us don't have to see such an atrocity!
April 30, 2010 at 7:37 PM Report abuse
jimpmwo said...
Again we make a big deal out of nothing. there is nothing dirty or obscene about breasts except in the mind of the beholder. if it offends you to look it is your own narrow mind doing it so just look away.
April 30, 2010 at 7:43 PM Report abuse
bebopredux said...
Concealed carry vs. open carry. Seems it now applies to breasts as well as guns. Anyone remember the "Fembots!" scene in Austin Powers? Be afraid people.
April 30, 2010 at 7:58 PM Report abuse
lot2say said...
I want to keep our rights, but knowing so many fools don't like them, Why protest for something legal? It will only make the government make a law against freedom! Just like those gun fools, and I'm a gun owner and carrier!
April 30, 2010 at 8:01 PM Report abuse
hawkeye said...
What the hells the big deal? I was walking thru Wal Mart the other day and a woman had her boob out nursing a kid!Shame on her and her crying child! What should a person with a nose shaped like a penis do stay at home? It really only makes a difference to those that let it......... Besides as Ron White says "once you've seen one..You want to see them all"!
April 30, 2010 at 8:03 PM Report abuse
splarry said...
JUST REMEMBER THIS, WOMEN'S BREAST ARE NOT SEXUAL, THE ARE TO NURSE BABIES!
April 30, 2010 at 8:21 PM Report abuse
OldClarkie said...
Massive Crowd? OH PLEASE Scott Monroe must be from some tiny town in northern Alaska to call this anything like a massive crowd. Interview one of the oldest women in Maine, at 104 years old, what would you expect?
April 30, 2010 at 8:25 PM Report abuse
OldClarkie said...
Massive Crowd? OH PLEASE Scott Monroe must be from some tiny town in northern Alaska to call this anything like a massive crowd. Interview one of the oldest women in Maine, at 104 years old, what would you expect?
April 30, 2010 at 8:25 PM Report abuse
sickofit said...
Let's see now...University of Maine Farmington prepares TEACHERS.....hope this gal doesn't apply in my district...don't want her teaching my kids...oh wait...maybe all the TEACHERS should go topless to prove a point...probably won't be able to afford bras with all the budget cuts...unbelievable...what a bunch of losers...hope they enjoyed the gawkers..maybe theres a bit of exibitionism goin on here ladies...
April 30, 2010 at 8:33 PM Report abuse
heyjoe said...
yawn......
April 30, 2010 at 8:47 PM Report abuse
c2hpcG1hdGU%3D said...
Ah, young and naive college girls, not really understanding the world quite yet. Fast forward to when they are mothers to daughters and sons, sitting around topless at the Fourth of July family picnic or company party... that'll go over well.
April 30, 2010 at 9:11 PM Report abuse
fullkeel said...
This is the best thread of comments I have read here in years! This is the quality of insight, (uplifting) humor and opinion which us Mainers are capable of from time to time, without the bitterness and rancor that is all too common. I think they should move this one week forward to earth day and call it mirth day and we can all have a good time (for once). And Marion Wing, WOW!!!, this is stuff for the ages!!!!
April 30, 2010 at 9:26 PM Report abuse
backwrdstate said...
Welcome to the USA of the new millenium. We had a President who lied to start a war, we have health care insurers preying on all Americans, we have Wall Street parasites raping everyone's future......and what do the youth on today's campus get up and march for? The right to wave their titts around in public. America is well into the toilet. And the Chinese have their hand on the flusher.
April 30, 2010 at 9:47 PM Report abuse
backwrdstate said...
Welcome to the USA of the new millenium. We had a President who lied to start a war, we have health care insurers preying on all Americans, we have Wall Street parasites raping everyone's future......and what do the youth on today's campus get up and march for? The right to wave their tiits around in public. America is well into the toilet. And the Chinese have their hand on the flusher.
April 30, 2010 at 9:47 PM Report abuse
Tman said...
If this childlike Gar-barge, (as Jonothan Winters would say), has any long term effect on society overall I shall be totally amazed! Good luck girls and please put your clothes back on - this anin't 1967 and I was there.
April 30, 2010 at 9:48 PM Report abuse
heyjoe said...
Women in this new atomic age....I just don't know...
April 30, 2010 at 9:51 PM Report abuse
backwrdstate said...
Welcome to the USA of the new millenium. We had a President who lied to start a war, we have health care insurers preying on all Americans, we have Wall Street parasites stealing everyone's future......and what do the youth on today's campus get up and march for? The right to wave their tiits around in public. America is well into the toilet. And the Chinese have their hand on the flusher.
April 30, 2010 at 10:02 PM Report abuse
pphreader said...
Sure are a lot of teeetays!Obviously attention seeking women with no modesty.stupid.
April 30, 2010 at 10:02 PM Report abuse
Equals said...
Morals? What's moral about war? Wake up y'all, it's not a big deal. Get over it already! It may not be smart but when do we start making laws about what smart is or isn't.
April 30, 2010 at 10:10 PM Report abuse
bubbagump said...
This is straight up Attention Seeking Behavior. If you do your history and find out who and what was behind the Women's Lib Movement you can find that was none other than the CIA. Thats right. No conspiracy theory here. They had an agenda and it worked. So ladies, you have been duped again!
April 30, 2010 at 10:12 PM Report abuse
Musikian said...
Stupid, stupid, stupid! These women are lacking in the brains department and made themselves look ridiculous. Just because men can walk around shirtless doesn't mean that they should do so. I think it is a sign of poor manners and a serious lack of class. Women walking around topless are no different.
April 30, 2010 at 10:48 PM Report abuse
DeathCultt said...
Once they did it in Portland the Farmington bunch R nothing but posers................BORRRRRIIIIINNNNNGGGG!!!!!!
April 30, 2010 at 10:52 PM Report abuse
DonC said...
Much ado about nothing. If they really wanted to make a statement they wouldn't wait for everyone to get together. Maybe they needed moral support. But anyway if they really wanted to make a statement they should do it daily, not in a staged event. Men do it every day, so why not the gals, but they won't, not without their sisters holding their hands...
April 30, 2010 at 11:04 PM Report abuse
DeathCultt said...
Since there is no law against it I would like to know who publicly stated that women do not have the right to walk around topless. Whom told the womeb they could not or did some women obsessed with her own breasts decide she was bored and had to start a sudo rights march because no one else wanted 2 look at her saggy torpedos.
April 30, 2010 at 11:06 PM Report abuse
MICKEY1947 said...
One word ---- BIMBO'S.
May 1, 2010 at 2:08 AM Report abuse
MICKEY1947 said...
One word --- BIMBOS.
May 1, 2010 at 2:11 AM Report abuse
JLoring said...
"Several Farmington police officers directed traffic and kept watch during the march. Police said they received no reports of problems or accidents related to the march." I'll bet they "kept watch".
May 1, 2010 at 6:22 AM Report abuse
carson said...
I sit here and wonder how far things will go before people get some sense. My GOD, look at what this country has become. Will the day come when people have some morals and decency?
May 1, 2010 at 6:31 AM Report abuse
Neighbor said...
I don't want to see men shirtless I don't want to see women topless For crying out loud, have some decency!
May 1, 2010 at 6:36 AM Report abuse
Sassy1 said...
Just another way to stay "abreast" of things!!! PUN intended!! (*wink-wink*)
May 1, 2010 at 7:03 AM Report abuse
deceiver said...
For those prudes. Don't worry, Fall will be upon us in a few months.
May 1, 2010 at 7:07 AM Report abuse
RightwMainer said...
why did i know it wouldnt be a hot chick !
May 1, 2010 at 7:26 AM Report abuse
justducky said...
What next? A HOOTERS in Portland ?
May 1, 2010 at 7:26 AM Report abuse
Jack%27sDaddy said...
So why do you have to be 18 years old to go the the toppless coffee shop? And why was it a big deal that one of the ladies went outside to talk with someone? Heck, this movement will put the coffee shop out of business!! Why go and pay for overpriced coffee and donuts, when you can get it for free out on the streets!?
May 1, 2010 at 7:43 AM Report abuse
HoHum said...
there will never be a Hooters in Portland Guber candiate Rowe stopped the last one that tried and in the same year allowed condoms to be passed out to JR high kids in Portland without parental consent. And some want this guy as our Gov...not sure whats worse Libby, Baldi, or Rowe
May 1, 2010 at 7:44 AM Report abuse
WestbrookJ said...
All those photos - all over the Internet - and they don't care? Bet they will someday! Remember, girls, the "good" ones go viral!
May 1, 2010 at 7:51 AM Report abuse
youknowit said...
Topless at the beach, normal. Topless on main street, female, or male, low life.
May 1, 2010 at 8:03 AM Report abuse
Ripple said...
live and let live, if you want to go topless, so be it, if you don't than don't, a big deal about nothing. A male staring at a nice set is no diffrent than females checking out a male with a muscular chest.
May 1, 2010 at 8:15 AM Report abuse
Mrschad said...
Why is it the first thought that comes to mind, these women are exhibitionists? A lot of money is being spent to protect these gatherings/marches. Seems like they should have to pay for all this police. Why should tax dollars have to? Tell me something, Ladies, is that what you want to be doing when Jesus returns?
May 1, 2010 at 8:24 AM Report abuse
Peetree said...
Let's hope that old saw, "As Maine goes, so goes the nation," will be resurrected! Think of all the resurrections that could spontaneously and happily be taking place all across the country! A woman should be able to get as naked as she wants in any situation where a man can. These women should organize a national event to take place on Independence Day! "Carpe diem. Seize the day, girls. Make your lives extraordinary." (Paraphrase of line spoken by Robin Williams as John Keating in the film, Dead Poets Society.)
May 1, 2010 at 9:20 AM Report abuse
SilentK_ said...
Whatever. It's what the good lord put us on this earth with. Parts is parts. We all got 'em, one kind or another. Society has made nudity dirty, but it really doesn't get any more natural.
May 1, 2010 at 9:25 AM Report abuse
atvclub said...
yuk!.nothin kills a hardon like fat and tattoos on a female
May 1, 2010 at 9:25 AM Report abuse
havefaith said...
These ladies are not very bright. It may be legal ,but not for long, the police needed to be there. It has now become a public safety issue. THOSE WHO USE THIER RIGHTS LOSE THIER RIGHTS !!!
May 1, 2010 at 10:53 AM Report abuse
revelation said...
A society where decency and morals have disappeared is lost and will be destroyed. These things will only lead to more and more base behaviors until anything goes. Why? Because man doesn't want any rules at all and doesn't want anyone telling them what they can and can't do. This is rebelliousness toward the things of God, things of decency and morality. I am a man and I don't walk around with my shirt off either because since the garden of eden God covered us up, Genesis 3:21.
May 1, 2010 at 12:58 PM Report abuse
Citygirl said...
Hummmmm - if it isn't "inappropriate" - why does the PPH only take photos of the women's backs? Enough said.
May 1, 2010 at 6:16 PM Report abuse
Aquinnah said...
These women claim they are "female-bodied." Calling the language police! www.eightfits.blogspot.com
May 2, 2010 at 6:12 AM Report abuse
Aquinnah said...
These women claim they are "female-bodied." Calling the language police! www.eightfits.blogspot.com
May 2, 2010 at 6:14 AM Report abuse
oldpole said...
Jack, too many sagging, they are the ones that need uplifting.lol
May 2, 2010 at 6:52 AM Report abuse
ElCapitan said...
American women bring it on themselves, having just returned from the Carribean it was obvious which women were American - they were the ones hiding their breasts. Hundreds were topless and all were European. The Europen men don't look twice at the topless women, in fact I saw countless 14 thru 18 year old European boys who paid no attention to bared breasts. Keep it up ladies, American men will also become de-sensitized to seeing bare breats just as European males have.
May 2, 2010 at 7:35 AM Report abuse
jiminyc said...
The only thing about this that is degrading to women is the staring, leering, picture taking, laughing. I am sure some of those women were good looking, some not so much. They had a good point and I am glad they did their march.
May 2, 2010 at 7:55 AM Report abuse
Ladydiodes2 said...
These women are really showing how ignorant they are. I've never seen so many ugly women in my life as on the news about these ill-mannered women. Won't they be proud when they tell their young children what they did. It's a shame that they don't have any pride in themselves and just want their 15 minutes of fame. It's time to move on and ignore these people. All Maine has to do is place no shoes, no shirt and No Entrance allowed and these idiots would go home.
May 2, 2010 at 9:34 AM Report abuse
David said...
Gotta give credit to folks with the courage to flaunt such out of shape and unattractive bodies. Men and women. If you don't have it, flaunt it, I suppose. My question is how Maine got such a large share of homely people -- again, both men and women. Maybe it's something in the water?
May 2, 2010 at 11:31 AM Report abuse
NamVet said...
How long is this event going to top the "read," "shared," and "commented" lists? What's appalling isn't the women who organized and participated in the march but all the doofus guys who swarmed Farmington for a glimpse of -- gasp! -- bare breasts. Good grief, are you people 10 years old?
May 2, 2010 at 1:06 PM Report abuse