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Another Go Topless Day has come and gone, with hundreds of people protesting in cities across North America Sunday and many times that number of spectators showing up to ogle and snap photos.
Go Topless Day was founded in 2007 by Rael, the spiritual leader of the Raelians, and Sunday’s event was the second Go Topless rally in Montreal.
“As long as men are allowed to be topless in public,” Rael says on the GoTopless.org website, “women should have the same constitutional right. Or else, men should have to wear something to hide their chests.”
“It’s a question of discrimination,” said Sylvie Chabot, a Raelian priest who is the Canadian co-ordinator of the Go Topless movement. “Why do we ask about women and not men?”
According to Chabot, there is currently no official law on the books banning women from being topless.
“We want to have this taboo disappear,” Chabot said. “Women have been oppressed for decades.”
Agencies/Canadajournal
