#FreeTheNipple tells us embedded gender inequality

What was your first say when you saw It girl's breast peeking through her barely-there black top? "Hot", "too much of exposure" or "disgusting"?


Kendall Jenner, second youngest of Kardasian sisters and coming-up A-list model, has recently been showing her bras or even her nipples under her tops. She proudly commented that she likes to expose her breast, let alone her nipple piercing.


It could only be a privilege and her confidence as a model that enables her to show her vulnerable part, however, I could say that this proves that female stars are finally liberated to embody women's freedom.


This reminded me of the then trend, #FreeTheNipple.


If you have not been on the internet for the last three years, you need to revise this trend. #FreeTheNipple is a cyber movement by a group of women who longed to elaborate the mean of "feminism". This eventually involved a documentary film with the same name as the trend, and it featured an event in NYC in which the group walked down the street of Manhattan without tops.

This movement evoked the gender inequality seen in the regulation of social media and public space by which women are not allowed to reveal their upper body while men are.

Whether Kendall loves it or not, this is a complete embodiment of #FreeTheNipple movement, I must say. Kendall is just one of those celebrities who appeared to advocate this premise. 

For instance, Rhianna, a world's well-known pop singer, has kept uploading her photo without a top on Instagram even though the site once deleted her post. This eventually resulted in the site taking down her account entirely.

British super model, Cara Delevingne also posted a diagram illustrating both her and her male friend's nipple with the explanation of how the same physical parts are treated differently in real life.

Miley Cyrus even showed up on camera in a quite provoking outfit on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!". She wore a half length jacket and pasties covering her nipples. While Jimmy Kimmel, its show's MC, was overwhelmed at where to look on her, Miley spoke out on behalf of the movement.

"America's actually fine with tits. It's nipples they don't like. Which what you (male) have, which is insane because the nipples what you can't show everyone has, but the jug part that everyone doesn't you are allowed to show under boobs."  - Miley Cyrus on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

 

On top of the topless matter, public nursing has become a hot topic. Public nursing used be a controversial behaviour because that may involve mothers revealing their breast in public. However now that people shifted their perception on public nursing to a human right for babies' diet, mothers are against the condition in which they has to give their breast to their baby in the bathroom or locations inappropriate for meals. This concept has circulated as a campaign called #WhenNurtureCalls.


A conventional opinion against women's topless in public is based on the ideology that female breasts are sexual symbol. However, biologically the breasts are to nurture babies' dietary; nothing less and nothing more.

This comes to the realisation that we are blind-sighted by the ideology that is constructed by the society somehow. Before mid-20th-century, people used to believe that women are to take care of house works while men earn to support their family. This already has been flipped to the side and women are more educated to involve in society and make a change in the world. The same applies to the mindset of breast issue.


Do you wear bras because you want to wear pretty lingerie? or bacause you need some support for your breast? or because you feel like you need to cover up? or because you are obliged to wear them?

Not only the social status but the way our physique are treated should be equal between women and men. The more society is open to exceeding its fixed belief, what we need to do is to question ourselves and social system, and to take an action little by little.

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