Aucklanders march to 'Free the Nipple'

[NudieDaniel]

Saturday, 12 December 2015

By Corazon Miller

A handful of topless people have gathered in Auckland's Aotea Square in a statement against "gender inequality".

Organiser Jenelle Chitty,19, said it was about starting the conversation.

The MIT student and a handful of other supporters gathered in the square just after midday, tops stripped and holding banners that read "free the nipple" and "equality".

After gathering, the group walked to the viaduct.

"I know a lot of women who struggle with these issues," Chitty said. "Things like controlling husbands, being made to stay home instead of working."

She said although many thought these things no longer happened, the reality was they still did.

"I want to encourage women not to feel so self-conscious. I want them not to feel like they have to sexualise themselves."

Marcher Tim said he was there to show support for his women friends.

He didn't think it was fair he could walk topless yet women couldn't.

Tim had come on the march as a challenge to society to normalise the image of women and their breasts.

"I feel for them [female friends] that they are held up to a weird, arbitrary standard of dress."

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[Danee]

Awesome!  Great to see the movement for topfree equality in the Land of the Long White cloud. Thank-you for sharing!

[rg007]

Only 26 Females turned up - 40, 000 were expected