Increasingly, gender equality finds support through social media campaigns and people harnessing technology. In February, Mic online feminist movements from a crowdsourcing map that in Syria to forcing the Lululemon chairman to after suggesting larger women shouldn't wear their yoga pants. It's about time for a nipple mutiny. Women across Iceland took a powerful stand on social media last week by posting pictures of their breasts, using the FreeTheNipple campaign to reclaim control of their bodies. Using social media to make a change: The FreeTheNipple campaign is part of a larger, inspiring trend. What is more obscene: violence or a nipple? The movement: As by the Telegraph, the FreeTheNipple campaign was inspired by a film of the same name, which exposes the double standard of outlawing women's unconcealed breasts in New York City while no such law applies to men. The wildly popular EffYourBeautyStandards aims to diversify mainstream standards of beauty, with an that has more than 116,000 followers.
Outraged feminists, male and female alike, came to her defense by posting pictures of their nipples. . Her photograph was in direct response to a picture one of her male friends posted of himself without a shirt. The movement, which aims to desexualize women's breasts by posting ordinary pictures of exposed nipples on social media, has been around for. But it gained national momentum last week after a 17-year-old, Adda Þóreyjardóttir Smáradóttir, received vicious backlash for of her breasts.
We must keep ensuring the voices of gender equality stay louder than those of double-standard misogynists and Internet trolls. . . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . .
. . . . . . .
. . . . . . .
. . . . .
. . . . . .