Why can men walk around topless but women can't?

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Nearly everything's acceptable for men. It wouldn't surprise me if one day it became acceptable for men to wear skirts and dresses.

I suppose it's unacceptable for men to cry unless it's for an emotional thing like a loved one dying or his baby being born, stuff like that is OK, (and why not!)

while it is legal for men... even here in the desert, the statement is received as slovenly and undignified. most establishments will tell a man without a shirt to leave.

Because the sway of boobs is a distracting rhythm... then again many guys have manboobs which are equally distracting. I saw a girl the other day who had a dress so short she was having to walk with her arms stapled to her thighs, she might as well have worn a diaper or something.

Call me a prude, but I just generally wouldn't want to see a lady's breasts in public (Perhaps I'd make one concession for breast-feeding though since it has a practical purpose). Besides that, breasts on a woman are an actual sexual organ, while the same can not be said about a man's nipples. There is also just a huge (and partially unwarranted) cultural stigma here in the U.S. against nudity in general, unlike what you see elsewhere in places such as Europe, and unfortunately said stigma probably won't change any time soon.

Some women walk around with their bottoms out of their pants, so that evens things up.

if a woman doesn't feel "shy" to expose her breasts to strange men , then she is a slut and a dirty whore in my book. i am a guy and i'd feel shy to go topless in public although my body is a lot aesthetic.

You literally contradicted your entire point in just two sentences. Congrats.

You said "nearly everything is acceptable for men" then you immediately mention two thinks that aren't acceptable for men to do, wear dresses and cry.

It's also unacceptable for a man to hit a woman, even if the woman is beating the man.
It's unacceptable for a man to be short. Nobody is going to date a 5'5 guy.
It's unacceptable for men to have small penises, even though they literally can't control how big their penis is.
It's unacceptable for a man to be uncircumcised, because girls find uncut penises disgusting.
It's unacceptable for a man to have custody of his own children, because the kids need their mom! No matter how bad she is.
ect.
If you think life is that easy for men you are f*****g delusional.

Women can walk around topless and have been able to for years in the US and the UK. The reason why society
finds it weird is that it is disgusting. It's equally disgusting when a guy walks around topless. It's not normal for guys to walk around shirtless. When people see guys walking into stores shirtless they think "wow, thats a gross and trashy thing to do".

I suppose you guys mean at the beach, and the reason is pretty obvious: Men are naturally attracted to women's breasts. It's literally hardwired in our brain. Also, breasts are sex organs. Nobody is getting turned on by a pair of man tits.
And by the way, you can totally walk around topless at the beach if you want. 100% legal.
This is a non issue. Why would you even want to be topless at the beach.

It is, but most people have gotten used to it being that way. It's bad, but that's how it is.

Because Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Also because a thousand years ago a bunch of men would rape a bunch of women because there was nothing to stop them. Now this isn't needed, but seeing as one half can't control themselves then the other half must be controlled. (I don't agree with the previous sentence, but that's what society agrees with it seems).

Gelada baboons have a breast patch area for sexual ques since they feed sitting upright .Both sexes .I found the analog interesting.

In the show Boston Public a student refused to wear a bra & her teacher Harvey Lipschultz said~

& all the girls took off their bras & hung em from their lockers. Harry Senate said~

Cases of false advertising would drop in both senses if women stopped wearing bras that's got me in grief a few time unintentionally showing I was less than satisfied .But I don't go down the grocery shop prior to going out to enhance myself .No I take it like a good aspergian watch courses on genetics and feel confident in promoter site manipulation to make the point redundant and offer up a market worth multiple billions .

Hahahaha hahahaha!! !

I don't give two s**ts that men are allowed to go topless and women can't. Passing as male is important to me, so I'm not going to walk around with my extra chest parts exposed.

tl;dr: because sexism.

We can crudely divide people in two groups: the conservatives, who see women as private property (the property of her father, and then, her husband); and the liberals, who see women as public property (the property of any man who wants her). There are, of course, the people who don't see women as anyone's property, because women are people.
Conservatism has made sure women can't expose too much of themselves publicly (remember, they are one man's private property, other men have no right to see her!). This kind of thinking used to be stronger in the past, and still is in some places, even taken to the extreme in countries with sharia law, for example.
However, liberalism has been rising in the west, and so women have been exposing more and more of their body publicly. This can be nice for women (wearing fresher clothes when it's warm) and also not nice (men thinking that they can do whatever they want to women who expose their bodies, since they're public property).
Please note how women's clothes tend to be much more revealing than men's - shorter shorts, shorter sleeves on t-shirts, see-through clothes, wide/long necklines, tight clothing in general, clothes with random pieces missing, even smaller and tighter underwear... very common in the women's section, almost non-existent in the men's section. This is due to the advance of liberalism; women are public property now, so they should expose their bodies for all men to see and do as they see fit.

But if women are supposed to show off their bodies so that men can feel good by looking at them/use it as an excuse to do whatever they want to them, then why can't we be shirtless in public?!

We can also think about not wearing bras. By some, it's seen as titillating. By some, it's seen as gross. It may seem like those are conflicting opinions, but I think it's kind of obvious: perky, full breasts are considered sexy and good-looking, while... other kinds of breasts (droopy, uneven, hairy, too far apart, too small, too big, with stretch marks, dark nipples, etc) are considered ugly, gross and unacceptable. Men want to see sexy breasts - liberal men on the streets, conservative men at home. But they don't want to have to see ugly breasts, whether it's by being braless or shirtless. There is much division on that, in the same way. Think about how fat women get shamed and ridiculed for wearing some of today's trendy clothes (crop tops, short shorts/skirts/dresses, tight clothing, etc): these women aren't considered good-looking, so they're not supposed to be seen. Men want to see sexy, not ugly. This is also why women breastfeeding in public is a controversial topic: if the breasts aren't sexy (breastfeeding is seen as not-sexy, or at least inappropriately sexy by most men), men don't want to see them.

If women are supposed to be men's property and servants, we can't be free to wear whatever we want. And men can't, either, lest they be associated with womanhood (men performing femininity are ridiculed, because it's seen as a superior being emulating an inferior being - not acceptable). Those rules are needed to maintain patriarchy.

Sorry for writing such a long post! ^-^ I hope to have added to the discussion.

Because it's always the woman's fault if a guy stares and gets horny so us women must cover up. You will not believe what I was told at work by my boss one day. He asked me if I was working with my top off yesterday and I told him I was and he tells me I needed to keep my uniform on and told me there are guys in the building. Uh I had on a sports bra. I was hot so I took my shirt off to keep cool because they shut the AC off in the building and it was 95 degrees outside. That is why I wear them in the summer so I can take my shirt off. But still that was wrong because "there are men in the building."