Irony: A dish best served topless

Why is it that when something unbelievably awesome happens I am, invariably, no less than 500 miles away and don’t even hear about it for days later? Why am I never present for something completely off the wall like, just to pull an example out of thin air, two dozen women marching topless on the streets?

No, I am not making this up.




A group of men and women marched down the streets of Portland, ME, on the 3rd of April to protest the “double standard on male and female nudity”. From hereafter in this blog I will pretend that no males were a part of the demonstration because I would not want to let facts to interfere with the awesomeness of the story.

They marched on down to the local park where many “happily posed for pictures”.

WARNING: Critical levels of irony imminent.

” The women [were] preceded and followed by several hundred boisterous and mostly male onlookers, many of them carrying cameras…Ty McDowell, who organized the march, said she was "enraged" by the turnout of men attracted to the demonstration. The purpose, she said, was for society to have the same reaction to a woman walking around topless as it does to men without shirts on... Police said there were no incidents and no arrests – nudity is illegal in Maine only if genitals are displayed.“

Not only did the demonstration which was supposed to show society's acceptance of female nudity attract a massive crowd of men to demonstrate exactly how accepting they were of said nudity. Not only was Ty McDowell caught completely off guard by the fact that topless women might attract crowds of men with cameras. There were no arrests because the thing they were protesting, females being topless, was already completely legal in the area they were protesting.

Note to self: Move to Maine immediately.