<p>Does <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender equality</a> include men and women being allowed to publicly expose their breasts?</p>
<p>Well, according to Dorothy Stover — a lifelong resident of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and a self-proclaimed sex educator — the answer to that question is yes.</p>
<p>Stover scored a legal victory this week after Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KVDTiGDZ5k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> an amendment recently passed by Nantucket voters that legalized toplessness for men and women on all island beaches.</p>
<p>She first advocated for the change last spring, proposing an amendment that read, &#8220;In order to promote equality for all persons, any person shall be allowed to be topless on any beach within the Town of Nantucket.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to Stover, the idea first came to her many years ago when she saw a cartoon showing a man and woman with the exact same body, with the male telling the female to cover up.</p>
<p>Her desire to ditch her bikini top legally was hastened again after she realized she couldn&#8217;t do so at a Nantucket beach, despite men being able to walk around bare-chested.</p>
<p>&#8220;I do like to go topless on the beach,&#8221; Stover <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KVDTiGDZ5k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> on a podcast recorded before voters approved the measure, explaining that there was a Nantucket beach where women could bare their upper half without hassle from authorities — even though it was illegal.</p>
<p>Yet she noticed a double standard one day on another part of the island after seeing several males who must have suffered from gynecomastia.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was at a different beach where you couldn&#8217;t be topless and I had this moment when I wanted to be topless,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I realized I couldn&#8217;t and as I looked around the beach, I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Wait you know there are people that there are men that have bigger breasts than I do right now but they&#8217;re able to be topless? Why can&#8217;t I be topless?'&#8221;</p>
<p>Stover apparently doesn&#8217;t see any difference between men&#8217;s chests and women&#8217;s breasts.</p>
<p>“We have the exact same makeup — men have mammary glands and nipples — and so I started reaching more into it and men can go topless but we can’t,” Stover previously <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/05/05/nantucket-residents-vote-to-allow-topless-beaches/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.</p>
<p>Not all island residents support her ideas.</p>
<p>&#8220;If I have to go topless to prove I am equal to a male that is something wrong with that concept,&#8221; one woman <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lLJ-E4pnho" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a debate about the proposal last spring.</p>
<p>A man at the time also pointed out that Nantucket has strict laws about everything in hopes of keeping a certain aesthetic.</p>
<p>&#8220;We talk about preservation, we talk about making sure the shingles are gray, yet we&#8217;re going to pass something that could call undo attention to the island for wrong the reasons,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Another woman was offended by that comment, saying, &#8220;To the gentleman that just spoke, I don&#8217;t like to be compared to a shingle. My breasts are not shingles.&#8221;</p>
<p>For now, the town is requesting &#8220;everyone to be patient and respectful as the island adapts to this first-of-its-kind bylaw in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.&#8221;</p>
<p>If you have to ask people to be &#8220;respectful,&#8221; isn&#8217;t it a sign that maybe this law isn&#8217;t the best way to achieve equality?</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a &#8220;sex educator&#8221; like Stover to understand that this will lead to heavy bouts of voyeurism.</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>

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