Men With Their Tops Off In Public Places because it's hot.

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Was in ASDA and this bloke just walking round doing his shopping with no top on, belly hanging over shorts. Yes, it's hot and what not but it's just such male privilege.

If a woman walked around in just her bra because it's so hot, she'd be body shamed and cat called and possibly even assaulted and told she'd "asked for it"

And yet men can go around comfy while we suffer. The injustice!!

Ah, like flying ant day, the traditional MN 'Is it gross when men take their tops off?' thread is here again. :)

MN should publish a ten-year 'best of' compilation.

'But for all the people saying 'I don;t want to see that', you do know that your desire not to 'have to see men topless/women with their butt and boobs hanging out/people dressed insufficiently in any other respect' doesn't actually trump someone else's right to dress how they damn well please? So since there's nothing you can do about it apart from get all ruffled, maybe a bit of live and let live? ;)

Also saw a woman wandering round the shops in an undersized bikini top and shorts this week but she was just about to get removed by the police because she was having a florid psychotic episode .

In an ideal world it shouldn't be a problem. But we don't live in one. Western society seems to think showing your torso is not acceptable, so why should men, regardless of their physic, be allowed to display like this when it gets a bit warm?

Meh.

It's just skin and flesh.

I'm kind of jealous people have the confidence to do it.

Sort of the point I think: the male privalage is having the confidence to walk around semi naked

My sons commented on this today - they thought it was weird. I worry about them getting sunburn. I saw a girl today wearing denim shorts and a bikini top but the shirts had the zip open and pulled down - on purpose I presume - looked very odd.

In Blackpool,once there were lots of women walking around in bras.

tigermoll

I'm sweltering, it isn't so much "I don't want to see that" as "I'm boiling bloody hot, but I can't wander round in my bra, because I'll get abuse, no-one wants to see my rolls of flab, men, however do as they like" AND IT'S SO UNFAIR.

I didn't know "Men With Tops Off" was unoriginal as I'm relatively new. I did have a scroll, in weaher like this, to see if I'd be beaten to it

why should men, regardless of their physic, be allowed to display like this when it gets a bit warm?

How do you propose to stop them?

I know.

Nipple tassels.

Any man who dares to go out in public WITHOUT A TOP is clearly guilty of a flagrant display of disgusting male privilege and should be forced by the police to cover up with a pair of sparkly nipple tassels.

It's not the body but the chest hair I dislike. Horrible stringy ones that shed. Ugh.

I'm sweltering, it isn't so much "I don't want to see that" as "I'm boiling bloody hot, but I can't wander round in my bra, because I'll get abuse, no-one wants to see my rolls of flab, men, however do as they like" AND IT'S SO UNFAIR

On a serious note, seeking to extend oppression to men to make up for 'unfairness' to women is not the solution. If you honestly feel like this is a feminist issue, then surely the problems you cite are actually:

• women getting abuse in the street

-women not being able to take their tops off

A campaign to get men to cover up will not address either of those problems, even if you do feel its somehow 'fairer'.

And honestly, a pale, loose linen shirt will keep you cooler that being topless would.

Unless it's in a park or on a sea wall or something, I totally agree.

I was in a market town the other day and there was a gross man walking around (he weighed about 30 stone I reckon) with no top on with a hernia sticking out, it was the most revolting sight ever.

tigermoll
Eh? How about men realise that this behaviour just reinforces the current imbalance in society?

If you are interested in men with nipple tassels, I'm sure Google will help you out.

I think it's wrong for sweaty, chubby blokes to be sweating over the fresh produce in a supermarket

It's a weird one for me.

I don't have a problem with other guys doing it but wouldn't like DH or DSs to walk around a shop topless.

I agree with you OP, but I'm easily scandalised.

Then....

It fits in as an extension of how women get catcalled and bodyshamed. That was actually my thought. It was not the reverse.

My thought was NOT "Oh men SHOULD cover up" but "Women can't do likewise" that's the problem.

Slim men can sweat a lot too, Naze.

Taking it all the way though, how many women would want to do the shopping topless? Even if it was ok.

Personally i'd be too uncomfortable with my 34F hooters loose to do as they please. so for me the unfairness is in the way men and women differ physically. sigh.

Let them walk around how they like. You don't have to look!

Unless you're at the beach / pool / in the park / your garden, I really don't think ANYONE, regardless of weight, gender, whathaveyou, should be wandering around topless.

Fine in the right places, but for me at least it has a spectacularly "yuk" quality when I see it on the high street. I would even silently judge Chris Hemsworth if he decided to wander round a supermarket without a shirt. And that's saying something

How about men realise that this behaviour just reinforces the current imbalance in society?

I'm not sure that it does. But the way to combat the imbalance is not to seek to make men more body conscious, more likely to suffer abuse and more covered up in public, surely you can see that?

In what way would men keeping their tops on combat the problems of body shaming, street harassment and the commercialisation of women's bodies?

Unless they ought to somehow do it in solidarity, and refuse to remove their tops until women can be topless too?

Actually I think women win out overall in hot weather. Have a look around the average office. You'll see lots of women in cool but smart summer dresses, bare legs and sandals while the men are all still in a suit and tie.

Yes keep the upper body nudity to the park, the beach or your own home. I do not wanting to be looking at your nipples when I'm selecting a pepperoni pizza.

I really don't like to see men with their tops off in places like shops or on the High Street or wherever. It feels (irrationally I do acknowledge) slightly aggressive to me. I'm not keen on seeing acres of anyone's flesh in shared spaces other than beach/pool/park. Perhaps that makes me a stuffy old prude.