August 7
OH DEAR! According to lawyer David M. Brown, the Ontario Court of Appeal didn't
consider the harm kids might suffer from seeing topless women when it issued its
famous ruling last fall ("Topless OK an Error," Sun, Aug. 1). I must be
damaged goods then, because as a boy I lived in a West African country where women
were free to go without tops, and often did. Perhaps Brown can tell me what damage
seeing women without tops causes so that I'll know what might be wrong with me.
Will those damaging experiences cause me to shake uncontrollably some time in the
future? Will my eyesight go bad? (Or is it something else that causes that?) Actually,
I suspect the only damage that's been done to me is that I'm more relaxed about
women's breasts than most guys here in Canada and I don't get offended by women
breastfeeding in public. This whole thing seems like a tempest in a teapot.
Steve Ross
Toronto
(Hey, sarcasm is our turf)