The Free the Nipple campaign that has taken Reykjavík by storm, reached its peak yesterday evening when women assembled in Laugardalslaug swimming pool for a topless dip. Logi Sigurfinnsson, the pool’s director, said the management team did not mind the women bathing topless.
Read more: Member of parliament bares breast in support of #Free the nipple campaign
“We’ve never interfered when it comes to these matters. This debate arises every summer, and while some guests are indeed more sensitive than others, we do not oppose to women going topless as long as other people’s modesty is not offended.”
Although the majority of people were supportive of the campaign, a rather dark shadow was cast upon it when Vísir reported that users on the website Deildu.is had compiled the photographs of young women in one file and were sharing them online. Around three hundred users had downloaded the files yesterday evening. Vísir’s report, however, only highlights the campaign’s necessity.
Read more: Icelandic women kick off a powerful #freethenipple campaign on Twitter
The next #Free the Nipple event in Iceland will likely take place on June 1st when women intend to sunbathe topless at Austurvöllur, in down-town Reykjavík.
Free the nipple is an international equality movement focused upon the double standards regarding the censorship of female breasts and society’s tendency to sexualise the female body. The campaign suddenly went viral in Iceland on Tuesday evening after a high school student was mocked by a young man for having posted a picture on Twitter that showed her nipple.
Read more: Icelandic Free The Nipple campaign takes over the capital
People sexualising the #FreeTheNipple campaign makes me so angry. Literally the complete opposite of what it's trying to achieve.
— Danni (@_abcdanielle) March 27, 2015
Hefndarklám heyrir sögunni til. Ætlar þú að nota þetta gegn okkur? @RSddottir #FreeTheNipple pic.twitter.com/vD1ckHCLoq
— Sunna Mjöll (@sunnamjoll) March 26, 2015
The Free the Nipple campaign that has taken Reykjavík by storm, reached its peak yesterday evening when women assembled in Laugardalslaug swimming pool for a topless dip. Logi Sigurfinnsson, the pool’s director, said the management team did not mind the women bathing topless.
Read more: Member of parliament bares breast in support of #Free the nipple campaign
“We’ve never interfered when it comes to these matters. This debate arises every summer, and while some guests are indeed more sensitive than others, we do not oppose to women going topless as long as other people’s modesty is not offended.”
Although the majority of people were supportive of the campaign, a rather dark shadow was cast upon it when Vísir reported that users on the website Deildu.is had compiled the photographs of young women in one file and were sharing them online. Around three hundred users had downloaded the files yesterday evening. Vísir’s report, however, only highlights the campaign’s necessity.
Read more: Icelandic women kick off a powerful #freethenipple campaign on Twitter
The next #Free the Nipple event in Iceland will likely take place on June 1st when women intend to sunbathe topless at Austurvöllur, in down-town Reykjavík.
Free the nipple is an international equality movement focused upon the double standards regarding the censorship of female breasts and society’s tendency to sexualise the female body. The campaign suddenly went viral in Iceland on Tuesday evening after a high school student was mocked by a young man for having posted a picture on Twitter that showed her nipple.
Read more: Icelandic Free The Nipple campaign takes over the capital
People sexualising the #FreeTheNipple campaign makes me so angry. Literally the complete opposite of what it's trying to achieve.
— Danni (@_abcdanielle) March 27, 2015
Hefndarklám heyrir sögunni til. Ætlar þú að nota þetta gegn okkur? @RSddottir #FreeTheNipple pic.twitter.com/vD1ckHCLoq
— Sunna Mjöll (@sunnamjoll) March 26, 2015
