The last time you saw Central Park’s Summit Rock on our blog, it was because we were performing The Tempest for what turned out to be an audience of millions (thank you, media!). This past week, we returned for something a bit more low-key and laid-back — but no less important.
This was one of our plain old visits to the park, the sort where half a dozen of us get together and hang out and read books and enjoy each other’s company, and do so naked from the waist up, just like men have been doing with impunity for the past century or so.
Should this be a scandal? It should not. It has been legal for women in New York to go topless anywhere a man can for twenty-some years. But you still rarely see women doing it, and it’s not because on an 85-degree day no woman would ever want to. It’s because women don’t know they have this right, or don’t believe they do, or don’t believe men know and believe it, and don’t want to deal with the hassle if someone objects or reacts in some other inappropriate way.
Well, that’s why our group exists. Because there’s safety in numbers, and comfort in doing it with friends if you’re going to do it at all. And that’s why we’re excited to extend our invitation to you: if you’re a bold, body-positive woman, if you’re in New York or expect to be here sometime this summer, and if you’re curious about exercising your own right to go shirtless in the park on some upcoming warm summer day, drop us a note. Tell us a little about yourself. We’re at toplesspulpfiction@gmail.com, and we’d love to hear from you.
In the meantime, here are some more photos from our last adventure for inspiration.
it is sure nice to see women who are not as ashamed to be natural.
Reblogged this on Naturalian's Blog and commented:
It is every woman’s right and it is right!
I’m curious if any of you have ever been hassled by police for wearing a thong in public, as I see one of your members is doing?
No, none of us ever has.
I don’t care about toplessness, I go topless myself on the beach. But I find this very self indulgent and narcissistic on June 12 when we are watching horror happening. Very immature and silly to be so self absorbed!
What happened in Orlando is horrifying. But it hadn’t happened yet when we posted our blog post around midnight last night and went to sleep.
In any event, the fact that there are monstrous people who commit acts like this — and who hate women, and equal rights, and the sort of freedom our events represent — is all the more reason for us to do what we do, and to do it publicly and proudly.
And if we restricted ourselves to posting only on days when there aren’t any shootings anywhere in the world, pretty soon no day on the calendar would be open to us.
But in this case, we just didn’t — and couldn’t — know.
Just because a terrible event transpires doesn’t mean everyone ought to drop everything and stop fighting their own battles to focus on the tragedy. We would never get anything done if we acted like this. Women’s rights are just as important as ever, on June 12th the same as any other day.
Your self-important attitude is toxic and childish.
Seems like it’s spreading! 😀
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TOO HOTT in the south. When will you be out in Central Park?
We were out in Central Park just the other day. We should have pictures up shortly. 🙂