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[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 105 points 2 years ago

Why are women's nipples considered unacceptable anyway? It seems really sexist in my opinion to say that male nipples are acceptable but female ones aren't

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 50 points 2 years ago

You answered your own question there - sexism and patriarchy, which need women as objects and property, not individuals worthy of individual freedoms.

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 33 points 2 years ago

In a decent number of countries, they are pretty relaxed. You go there, you see nipple (or dick) for 5 seconds, it's notable, then it fades into the background. People are just anal-retentive about it because of religion and family culture.

[-] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

And if you think about it, family culture comes from religion

[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 years ago

Some people enjoy being anal-retention to dicks, I am unsure about the logistics of doing that with a nipple

[-] pushka@kbin.social 68 points 2 years ago

and when someone transitions... it's ... the /same/ nipple, but it used to be illegal and unseemly - but now is perfectly legal to show everywhere ,,, strange.....

[-] Maestro@kbin.social 84 points 2 years ago

I've seen a surgery documentary on TV about transitioning. They showed the surgeon doing the breast surgery. It was all uncensored, nipples and all, until the very second the doc put the silicone bag under the skin. Then they pixelated the nipple. The same nipple they were showing all along.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 years ago

Makes you wonder at what size of breasts does it become NSFW and should men with boobs be censored? 🤔

[-] deo@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

Came here to tell the same story. They used to play some crazy shit on TLC before the reality show takeover.

[-] ShittyKopper 20 points 2 years ago

idea: cover post-transition nipple with pre-transition nipple

[-] hellothere@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

Or visa versa.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago

My nipples certainly aren't the same, they're far larger and the shape has changed, it's pretty insane actually. Our bodies are way more plastic than we think.

[-] sky@codesink.io 9 points 2 years ago

No kidding, mine are legitimately 3x larger? I spent my whole life already insecure about how large they were 😅

[-] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Ypu mean the aureola or the nipple? Its ok if you dont want to answer

[-] SkyeStarfall 8 points 2 years ago

They're also so much more sensitive....

[-] nitefox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Mine stayed the same lol, I was scammed

[-] gothicdecadence@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Literally same 😔

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago
[-] lemann@lemmy.one 13 points 2 years ago

For the other way round it would be vice versa, which is even more funny IMO - all of a sudden showing your previously legal nipples in public is now illegal

[-] tty84@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 2 years ago

Yeah, and all nipples are not equal.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

I'd love to know how you think this is relevant to op?

[-] tty84@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 years ago

Because we are talking about unacceptable female nipple, isn't it?

Or maybe the problem isn't the nipple itself, but the context in which it's shown.

And, after all, your are still free to put OP's male nipple on these pictures :)

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Or maybe the problem isn’t the nipple itself, but the context in which it’s shown.

In the meme you posted, the context of the photo on the left is basically sexual assault (one person exposing another without their consent), and the meme itself implies that the (justified) reaction to it is overblown, as if it is comparable to someone willingly exposing themselves.
It is not.
The meme is a really bad take in its own right, and has nothing to do with free the nipple.

[-] Dontfearthereaper123@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

They r looking at the camera, African people know what a camera does.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Where the fuck did I even imply they don't???

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[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

How is the meme on the right non consensual? That lady is smiling in the photo and people from Africa are not fucking idiots. They know they're being photographed for National Geographic. She clearly does not give a fuck.

[-] incendiaryperihelion@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

thinking for half a second ought to catch you up bud

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

You can't tell me what to do!

uses them for eyeballs instead

[-] Franzia 27 points 2 years ago

Not only are female breasts legal where I live IRL, many Lemmy communities consider them SFW under non-sexual conditions. Godspeed everybody, free the nipple!

[-] BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago
[-] Cyberwitch_7493@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the article OP, but it's got a clickbatey headline, it doesn't actually answer what took so long (or investigate why they made the change in the first place.)

[-] BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it was a rhetorical question.

I posted it because they point out the problems with this unequal body censorship and show that things are hopefully changing.

With the shift to Lemmy, instances and communities could stand with the 'free the nipple' movement. Let's be the change.

[-] DNOS@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago

How can we be sure .... what if we all use it and later discover we have been banned since this nipple comes from a wonderful wemen uhh ...

[-] ARk@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

That would just mean we weren't gay

[-] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

This is very helpful, what a kind gesture

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago
[-] dditty@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago
[-] mitch8128@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

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