I'm in New York City for the next few days, shooting season two of I'll Take That Dare for CafeMom Studios, and when I arrived in town today at 11:30am, my room wasn't ready.
This was no big deal, given the fact that my room was just a few blocks away from Fifth Avenue. I spent my afternoon happily shopping. It was a beautiful day in New York, so plenty of other people were out and about, too -- including A TOPLESS WOMAN, OMG.
Seriously. A topless woman came walking down Fifth Avenue with a purse slung over one shoulder, just like nothing was out of the ordinary... sort of like the woman in the photo above. But more... swingy. And less sexy. And do you know what was even weirder?
No one even flinched.
Everyone around me just kept on moving. I saw preteen boys, kids, mothers and fathers, men, and other solo women shopping. Not one person turned to gawk at this woman's bare breasts.
Luckily, I had my sunglasses on, so I could gawk away.
PEOPLE, THE WOMAN WAS NEKKID FROM THE WAIST UP.
I realize that there was a bit of a stir at one time over whether it was legal in New York for women to go topless on the streets (it is)-- you know, since men can go topless and no one bats an eye. From time to time, women have banded together to go topless in the Big Apple, but as recently as last year, women walking around doing it alone were still worthy of write-ups on city blogs.
So I guess I'm one of the lucky ones, who sighted a rare solo bare-breasted woman in the city.
Interestingly, not five minutes later, I spotted Jimmy Fallon on a street corner. As far as I know, he and the topless woman sighting were completely unrelated.
I'll probably forget over time that I once saw Jimmy Fallon standing on the sidewalk in New York. But I have a feeling that me seeing the topless woman shopping on Fifth Avenue is destined to go down in Ferrier Family Lore. I already told my eight-year-old daughter about it and she was speechless. Completely speechless.
My question for you... Now that the topless look is catching on in New York, do you think it will spread across the nation?
Would you go topless in public?
Image via Matt Brown/Flickr
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Comments 83
Not all of us want to be married, and not all men find it to be an oddity, or bad for a woman to be topless.
My SO fully endorses all my public topless/nudity excursions. HE doesn't personally do it, but couldn't care less that I want to. After reading this, this morning, I went outside in one of his t-shirts with no panties under it. Waved at neighbors, got told happy mothers day, wasn't a big deal.
Its a BODY, its not like, some holy vision of god or something
I have no desire to look at another woman's breasts in my everyday life. I personally would rather men be required to wear shirts than men AND women be able to go topless. I have been subjected to too many beer bellies and moobs in appropriate places. I don't need to add saggy woman boobs to that list.
I personally wouldn't run around topless, but if others want to I wouldn't care.
Bahahahaaaaaa heyjudesmommy! Hilarious!
It was actually quite common to see nudes in San Francisco. My last year there I made the mistake of going out wondering during the gay pride parade.....some things cannot be unseen lol. Don't get me wrong I'm an artist I draw naked people for a living but um.....lol.
Uh the comment about nudes mostly stay in the Castro district in San Francisco is so untrue. Multiple times I have seen OLD naked men riding bikes all over San Francisco. Last time I was coming out of a Chocolate shop close to Pier 39 and almost threw up watching the pack of old men ride by. It is funny that a lot of people seem okay with seeing women with no tops on in public but yet when it is a breastfeeding mother they tell her to go to the bathroom or leave!!
A woman going topless takes away the mystery for all men and cheapens the woman body. I know being nekkid is natural and doing it around the house is just fine but in public no.
Going nekkid in public is just for attention. I hate seeing men without shirts I sure hell don't want to see a womans saggy boobs to.