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      It’s annoying, but at least this is an independent, worker owned 4 man outfit that got its start when Vice went bankrupt.

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    Ya it’ll be a cold day in hell before Instagram requires men to hide their nipples. Just shows how ingrained America’s views on sex, sexuality and gender are in Christianity.

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      Christian tradition, sure, but the Bible doesn’t have much to say about nipples so any specific rule regarding them seems to be more of an inference than a command.

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        The Bible stopped being a real guide for American Christians the moment they landed on our coast

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          Technically correct, because they weren’t “American” before they landed.

          They abandoned the Bible as a real guide long before that, though.

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            Ah yes, and then uses Jesus’ name in the same sentence as USA. The guy hated capitalism more than anything.

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      What does the pope have to say about nipples? I’ve seen some in Christian art (didn’t touch myself to these, just in case), but didn’t realize there was an opinion on this?

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        The Catechism of the Catholic Church reads:

        The forms taken by modesty vary from one culture to another. Everywhere, however, modesty exists as an intuition of the spiritual dignity proper to man. It is born with the awakening consciousness of being a subject. Teaching modesty to children and adolescents means awakening in them respect for the human person." (C.C.C. # 2524)

        People here are not serious, they repeat slogans and polemics very superficially. The nipple taboo is found across pre-Christian and non-Abrahamic societies, probably because of breasts’ association with fertility. I.e

        When did bare breasts become taboo in Western civilization?

        Probably around 3,000 years ago. Women are displayed with exposed breasts in Minoan artwork from 1500 B.C. Some historians believe that these ancient women went topless only during religious rituals—bare-breasted, buxom goddesses have been worshipped since the dawn of civilization—but some of the artworks depict everyday activities, suggesting that bare breasts may have been commonplace. Just across the Mediterranean, ancient Egyptian women sported elaborate dresses that could either cover the breasts or leave them exposed, depending on the whim of the designer. Over the next few centuries, however, breasts become strictly private parts. Ancient Athenian women were wearing flowing, multilayered robes that concealed the shape of the bosom by the middle of the first millennium B.C. Spartan attire was more risqué, exposing the female thigh, but breasts were always covered.

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    Small boobies = nipple ok

    Big boobies = nipple not ok

    Is what I think this Instagram is trying to say. I don’t agree and think let the boobies be free.

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    If women’s nipples are censored because they are considered sexual, men’s should be too. I know more than a few women who are sexuality aroused by topless men.

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    “I’ve definitely learned that gender classifiers are an unreliable and flawed technology, especially when it comes to trans people’s gender expression,” Ada Ada Ada said. “I regularly see my algorithmic gender swing back and forth from week to week.

    Says the person changing themselves week to week to fit different classifications?

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      Precisely.

      Gender isn’t binary, there is no such thing as a male or female nipple. That distinction is something that Humans made up.

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        To the extent that men can lactate! It’s one of the possible side effects of risperdal, which I have to be aware of because I give it fairly regularly. It’s all the same structures it’s just a matter of the hormone signals they’re getting.

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        I don’t understand this. We have two genders, how is it not binary and how is it made up? Honest question.

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          Biological sex != gender. There’s not even 2 classes of biological sex. There are men born with biological female organs and women born with biologically men’s organs. We all as humans do share common organs, one of which happens to be the nipple.

          Regardless of what your actual biological sex is a gender is simply a social construct used to identify someone. A person who is “non-binary” feels that their gender does not conform to what you would typically expect of either male or female based on appearances or behavior.

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            Sure but there are two major biological sexes. I can understand how gender can be defined as something else though.

            Non-binary can decide what gender they feel like.

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              Anyone can decide what gender they feel like. Most people identify with one of the major genders, but many people don’t for multiple possible biological reasons. Nobody is in good faith identifying as a gender they don’t actually feel like.

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                Sure. If you define the word gender as identifying what you feel like, then it makes sense from that perspective. If I felt like my gender is someone who feels like a cat, that would be my gender then.

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                  I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you had a genuine question, but I now feel that was a mistake.

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          Their argument is that “gender is just a social construct”, without acknowledging that some of the most paramount aspects of human existence are “social constructs” (i.e language) and that gender is one of them. And without addressing why sexual taboos (like public nudity) are gendered - to them its a form of irrational injustice. But expore the social ramifications -through real and hypothetical examples- and you quickly find that it is indeed rational to treat bodies different according to their gender, and that human social psychology does have strong roots in human phsyiognamy.

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            From the person I talked to above, they are using gender to describe how they feel about who they are. So maybe it’s just a word difference.

            I’m very downvoted for being in this thread though and so are you. It’s a bit funny.

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          Poster below gave you all the answer you’d ever need on this question you beg… If you have any integrity, add a note to your original comment to clarify that you were mistaken in your initial assumption and why.

          But, doesn’t seem likely that you will.

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      The only thing changed between photos is clothing and pose. Is that gender? Well maybe it is, but it’s useless for classification.