Evie Wrote:Sae - many people would really freak out or scream or be highly embarrassed or whatever, if they saw a streaker. That is not the cause with certain types of clothing that someone personally "finds offensive".We are all naked by our nature. Unless you are trying to convince me that babies are born in clothes?
Nor is it the case with your example above with gay people...
Furthermore, the very important point that I need to make about that analogy with gay people is: Gay people are who they are because of their nature... that is not the case however with someone streaking. They don't have to streak. Homosexuality is about who you are, whereas streaking is a behaviour that would bother a lot of people and does not need to be done. It's not the same at all. Sexuality is a matter of identity - choosing to streak is something that can be restrained, and choosing not to do it is not oppression. As Leo said, homosexuality obviously doesn't have to be done in the streets in front of everyone, but streaking by definition does have to be in public.
How I look is a huge matter of my identity... and clothing alters how I look. How we are seen by others... and more importantly ourselves... matters just as much to us as who we are sexually interested in. It is all a part of who we are... what we think of ourselves.... and what others think of us. It is exactly the same... people can choose to restrain their sexuality (it is done all the time), just as people can choose how they wish to appear publicly in all sorts of other ways.
Being naked in public is no more disgusting or wrong than wearing a trenchcoat in public is. You say that many people would freak out if they saw a streaker... but people freak out to costumes all the time as well... or have you never heard of a haunted house or of zombie movies (or the like)?
I am offended by the Burka... how can I consider nudity to be more offensive than that? If people are offended by nudity, then that's fine. I'm offended that they are offended, and that's fine. People can be offended, but who has to give a rat's left ankle that they are? If we don't do things simply because people are offended by them... then what about homosexuality, abortion, eating cheese, playing video games, sex, and eating frozen waffles? Everything offends somebody... and being offended is no good reason to make a law about anything at all.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
