Women in Brazil staged a topless protest - to fight for the right to go topless.
As
well as turning heads, the group hoped to turn attention to a Brazilian
law which prohibits women from going topless at the beach as well as
highlight cultural issues surrounding the freedom of women's bodies.
In a city where little more than a thong bikini is
seen as modest and old fashioned, a woman showing few centimetres more
skin in shedding her bikini at the beach is treated as a scandalous act
of promiscuity that attracts unpleasant attention.
In bearing her
breasts to the bank-holiday Rio crowds, campaign organiser, Ana Paula
Nogueira, hoped to encourage people to see the act of going topless as
something pure and natural.
"We believe that this is something that is going to take a while. It
is something cultural, it will take a while to change, but there is no
point in us sitting there doing nothing.
"So we try to make it
playful, involve people so that this is received in a natural way and
not seen as a protest," Nogueira told Reuters TV on Tuesday.
The campaigners celebrated the growing support for the movement, with a number of men and women taking part. ...DailyMirror
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