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To be topless around the kids pool?

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WaitrosePigeon · 17/07/2018 16:23

Backstory...

On holiday at an all inclusive hotel with kids club etc. Got some tan lines from my bikini so this afternoon took the bikini top off to try and sort them out. DH comes over and says it is inappropriate near the kids pool. I said that he had his top off so why couldn’t I. He said because I was female.

I didn’t put the bikini top back on but is it inappropriate? It’s just boobs?

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coolncalm · 18/07/2018 14:14

What's wrong with boobs being sexualized? If people begin to see each other naked all the time, there would eventually be no sexual attraction left

Wouldn't that be horrible. To never get that wonderful butterflies in the stomach feeling, or the excitement of that first kiss. If i'd have met my dh with no clothes on i don't think i'd have fancied him quite the same.

EvenThoughYouDidCHEAT · 18/07/2018 14:14

lol @ woke

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WaitrosePigeon · 18/07/2018 14:15

Hahaha @ woke Grin

I think I did answer it a few pages ago. I don’t see any other women walking around topless in bars so I wouldn’t do that.

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NotWeavingButDarning · 18/07/2018 14:16

This is an interesting thread.

I'm actually quite taken aback that so many people who wouldn't flinch at a bare chested man are so censorious about a woman doing exactly the same thing.

Can't see the logic there at all

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 18/07/2018 14:22

I think I did answer it a few pages ago. I don’t see any other women walking around topless in bars so I wouldn’t do that.

Thought that might be the answer. So it's not the same as a ma having no top on evidentially!

Myotherusernameisbest · 18/07/2018 14:26

The weirdos on this thread have made myself and DH have a little chuckle I must admit

Do you mean the ones who think that there are places for topless sunbathing and the kids pool isn't one of them?

TBH I've read most of the thread and I can't see anyone who says it is wrong to sunbathe topless on holiday, just that its inappropriate at a kids pool. That doesnt make them pearl clutchers or prudes.

I do actually find it quite hard to understand why someone would think it IS appropriate in that setting and rightly or wrongly I would judge that person as probably being not very bright and a bit rough. Obvioulsy not the case with you OP as you point out your degree and career, but without knowing you, laying there with your boobs out by a childrens pool, that is unfortunately what I'd first think. On a beach I wouldn't bat an eyelid, so the setting is very relevant in helping to form peoples opinions I think.

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WaitrosePigeon · 18/07/2018 14:27

Thought that might be the answer.

Why ask, then?

I think generally as humans we follow the heard. If you see other people doing stuff then you are likely to do it too.

As I saw other topless women, I joined in.

If I saw topless women in bars regularly then I would probably do that too. Who knows - it doesn’t happen so the question is kind of pointless.

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WaitrosePigeon · 18/07/2018 14:28

Do you mean the ones who think that there are places for topless sunbathing and the kids pool isn't one of them?

No. The ones who have hurled insults and have written absolutely ridiculous replies that can’t be taken seriously.

If you read what I said on the previous page I say that next time the kids pool probably wouldn’t be the best place.

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WaitrosePigeon · 18/07/2018 14:29

that is unfortunately what I'd first think.

And I absolutely wouldn’t care. I save lives, wonder how many other people do that? Judge away.

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gunnyBear · 18/07/2018 14:31

@NotWeavingButDarning

Men and women are not the same. Hadn't you realised? How old are you?

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 18/07/2018 14:35

Women don't walk around to the bar with no top on because they understand it's not the same as a man with his chest out.

Coco2891 · 18/07/2018 14:36

I was feeling a bit sorry for Op until the 'I save lives -wonder how many ppl do that' comment 😒

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WaitrosePigeon · 18/07/2018 14:41

Don’t feel sorry for me, I’m absolutely fine Smile

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User183737 · 18/07/2018 14:41

If someone had arrested and needed mouth to mouth would you have put your top on first? Seeing as you save lives and all...

CarlsRightEye · 18/07/2018 14:43

When I was young it was standard for my mum to whip them out round the pool, when I went away as a young twenty something I also whipped them out around the pool, (not so much now that I'm nearing 40 and my boobs are nearing my knees!
Everyone needs to stop oversexualising everything!
Probably not appropriate in this country but it's standard round the med especially! Maybe walking round with all on display is a bit much, but lying on a sun lounger getting those boobs nice and bronzed doesn't bother me in the slightest!

ScrubTheDecks · 18/07/2018 14:45

Why not take your bottoms off too, it’s just a vagina

Well, quite - wouldn't worry me in the least if people were sunbathing naked. I don't think our bodies are anything other than our bodies, and it seems somehow LESS sexualised to take everything off than insist that some bits of bodies myust be covered.

Germans don't give two hoots about nakedness in showers, changing rooms or round pools and beaches. Seems quite a healthy attitude to me.

We went to loads of beaches when I was a teen where people just happened to take their clothes off to sunbathe and swim. Neither my brother nor I thought anything of it.

I have many times sunbathed and swum naked on remote beaches (colonised by Germans) in Greece, Canaries, etc, in France, the UK. I have never once streaked through a shopping centre or turned up for the school run au naturel, and am not a pervert, exhibitionist or predator.

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WaitrosePigeon · 18/07/2018 14:46

If someone had arrested and needed mouth to mouth would you have put your top on first? Seeing as you save lives and all

I’m not sure if you are being facetious but I will assume you’ve got good intentions. We preserve life, my first thought would be that Smile

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ScrubTheDecks · 18/07/2018 14:46

P.S: German and British families - not just German adults, on the beaches.

And it was normal when I was younger for everyone to be topless in hotel pools on AI holidays in the med. Can't say now as I haven't been on one of those for years.

Coco2891 · 18/07/2018 14:47

I'm sure you do -honestly! but for me personally I wouldn't like to have that attitude

gunnyBear · 18/07/2018 14:47

I'd missed @WaitrosePigeon saying she saves lives as if it made a difference.

DH saves children's lives (pediatric cardiologist) and thinks you're a "stupid exhibitionist" so I guess the two opinions cancel each other out.

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WaitrosePigeon · 18/07/2018 14:49

What attitude? Not caring what people think? It’s bliss, honestly. Last year after many years of being overweight and overdressing in the summer I thought fuck it and wore shorts and a t-shift for the first time in forever, it was so liberating.

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TooTrueToBeGood · 18/07/2018 14:52

If someone had arrested and needed mouth to mouth would you have put your top on first?

You know what, sometimes people have different opinions to you. That's life. Coming out with ever more ridiculous contrived scenarios does not strengthen your argument, it just makes you look ridiculous. If you, or someone in your group, had suffered a CA why on earth would you give a damn what state of dress any medic or first aider was in when they came to give assistance?

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WaitrosePigeon · 18/07/2018 14:52

My DH also saves lives, is higher up than your DH and disagrees. So, looks like we all cancel each other out Grin

To wrap up I take everyone’s opinions on board and next year, if the opportunity arises I won’t go topless in the children’s area but I will in the adults area if it feels right and it is permitted.

Anyway, it’s been fun guys. I’m hiding the thread now as I have a ton of washing to do after the holiday - the grimmest part. But this thread certainly has helped with my holiday blues Wine

I wouldn’t bother wasting your energy on anymore passive aggressive or insulting posts as I unfortunately won’t see them, I don’t want you to waste your time.

Have a good day everyone and thanks for the laughs Flowers

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Myotherusernameisbest · 18/07/2018 14:54

Wow, actually based on your latest comments, I think my initial thoughts would be valid.

EvenThoughYouDidCHEAT · 18/07/2018 14:56

I don't give a flying F about sunbathing topless, but arguing over whose opinion matters more based on your career is crass and embarrassing