Vancouver, April 19, 2018 – Serah Small, a 24-year-old Alberta hockey player, made National news because she openly breastfed her baby in the locker room during a hockey tournament in Grand Prairie, Alberta.
“The natural act of nursing one’s baby, replicated by every mammal on Earth, somehow created a media frenzy among humans as if Aliens had landed on Earth!” remarked Denise Belisle, GoTopless leader in Canada.
“Why would this natural, instinctive behavior be regarded as an oddity among ‘civilized’ Homo sapiens?” asked Belisle. “Giving a baby a breast to feed on is just as natural and decent as giving an apple to a five-year-old child.”
“The problem in our society is not that women want to breastfeed their babies, but that they want or need to do it in public and while doing so, they may expose their breasts,” Belisle said. “There is so much discrimination toward women and their breasts because our Judeo-Christian values make us perceive the naked body with guilt and shame. That includes the female nipple but strangely not the male nipple.
” Since its inception 11 years ago, GoTopless has always maintained that “as long as men are allowed to be topless in public, women should have the same constitutional right. Or else, men should have to wear something to hide their chests.”
“That was the claim made by Spiritual leader, Maitreya Rael, a relentless defender of equal rights when he recommended the creation of GoTopless in 2007,” informs Belisle.
Equal rights is the core of GoTopless’s mission statement. Indeed, our lawmakers must be completely gender unbiased when it comes to legislating the human nipples. Unfortunately, religious values still hinder gender equality in this aspect of our lives especially in a largely catholic province like Quebec where the law is still murky when it comes to topless equality.
“All Canadian provinces should seek inspiration from Ontario and British Columbia when it comes to topless equality,” insists Belisle. She concludes: “My hope is that our society finally accepts and recognizes women’s body as equal to men’s and puts equality before so-called Christian morality.”
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