Topless women protest for more toplessness
Two dozen women paraded topless around a city in Maine over the weekend in a bid to promote what they call 'equal-opportunity public toplessness' - and unsurprisingly attracted a large crowd of (mostly male) onlookers.
A topless woman: surprisingly, this can attract quite a lot of attention
Organizer Ty MacDowell said the point of Saturday's march in Portland was that a topless woman in public shouldn't attract any more attention than a man who walks around without a shirt.She added that she was 'amazed and enraged' by the large crowds of men the march attracted - but insists she plans to repeat the protest at a later date.
It's not actually illegal for a woman to be topless in public in Maine, and police said there were no incidents or arrests.
The Portland Press Herald reports that by the end of the march, more than 500 people had amassed - a mix of marchers, young men snapping photos, oglers and people just out enjoying a sunny, warm