This Is What a Blue State Looks Like: Rally for Nudity in SF
[To ensure that this post is work-safe, family-friendly, and legal, all photos below have the following parts blurred out:
- exposed genitals
- exposed butt-cracks
- female breasts
- the faces of children or anyone who appears to be a minor
- the faces of passersby who may not wish to be associated with the protest.
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All trends start in California, they say — and all California trends start in San Francisco. That’s why everyone, no matter where you live, should take note of a rally just held in SF to support a growing political movement: the legalization of public nudity.
The “Rally for Nudity,” as it was called, took place in the city’s Castro District on Saturday, October 20, drawing over a hundred mostly naked protesters fighting against a proposed new law that would criminalize nudity in San Francisco. That’s right — probably because no one ever thought such a law was necessary in chilly San Francisco, the city government has never bothered to pass a law forbidding public nudity, and recently a large group of dedicated nudists and exhibitionists have taken advantage of this legal loophole, parading around naked in public on a daily basis, mostly in the Castro District.
Now, responding to complaints from local businesses and clothed neighbors, the area’s City Supervisor — the perfectly named Scott Wiener (no joke) — has proposed a new ordinance banning public nudity in San Francisco. That was the final straw for the naked activists, who announced a clothing-optional public protest against the law on Saturday in Jane Warner Plaza, at the intersection of Castro and Market streets, a busy corner that has become the prime rendezvous spot for the city’s nudists.
From the Castro District they seek to expand the nudity zone outward to all of San Francisco; if the movement gains momentum, could it expand to all of California, and then eventually nationwide?
The protest was both lighthearted and serious at the same time. One protester held a sign saying “No to Scott. Yes to Weiner!” which, despite misspelling “Wiener,” was pretty funny.
The organizers handed out a list of demands, which included not only creating nude areas in all city parks, but also insisted on an apology from Scott Wiener “for starting a witch-hunt against nudists and leather-folk.”
The crowd of protesters swelled to over 100 as the afternoon wore on, with at least as many rubberneckers on the surrounding sidewalks. (The rally didn’t quite reach the 200 attendees who vowed on Facebook to show up, but 100 isn’t half bad.)
The protesters tried to frame the issue as a civil rights and libertarian cause, but look at this sign specifying the rules for Jane Warner Plaza, where the protest was held: According to city ordinances, in the plaza it is illegal to smoke, sell things, sleep, camp, do landscaping or gardening, drink alcohol, and (not mentioned on the sign but still illegal) block the adjacent trolley tracks, have unleashed dogs, and disrupt traffic, among numerous other taboo behaviors. If the protesters were (as they claim to be) resisting on general principles any government restrictions on public freedoms, then why focus on nudity and none of these other oppressive laws? Where is the Rally for Public Gardening?
My God, that man is breaking the law — he’s drinking alcohol in Jane Warner Plaza!
This being an election season, the lure of several hundred politically involved citizens gathering in one place was too great for the Democratic Party to resist. Members of the Harvey Milk Democratic Club, the local branch of the Democratic Party, showed up to ply the crowd with voting slate brochures.
This volunteer handed a voting slate to a young child in the crowd. Well, seeing as no one ever checks voter IDs in San Francisco polling places, this may not be as pointless as it seems!
But surely the Democratic Party volunteers weren’t themselves naked — oh. I see.
Actually, being naked was a smart move — the unclothed canvassers had much more success handing out the slate cards than the clothed canvassers did.
“Make sure to vote Democrat on November 6!” A jolly time was had by all.
And the rally was definitely Democrat Country. This is Nancy Pelosi’s district, after all. In fact, a steady stream of Obama supporters walked through the protest.
Most of them seemed to be just passersby…
…but others stopped to soak in the carnival atmosphere.
The ‘weird’ doth protest too much, methinks.
What’s the name of this place?…Sad Fagsickos?
Nudists are so weird…
Its so completely unnatural…seriously…
Notice they still need SHOES….
And what about pockets?
I love how at “nudist” resorts, you have to tie up one hand continuously carrying a TOWEL everywhere you go, so your ass doesnt contaminate/get contaminated when sitting down…..
So basically, youre CARRYING your “protective clothing” with you, but in a really awkward way
News Flash…..Pants….Seat of….frees up your HANDS.
Ask a caveman what a pair of jeans would have been worth to him.
Freaks.
I smell a Geico ad coming on.
That, and the nifty thing about pants is that you can zip up when it gets chilly and be discriminate about who to share your pork and beans with.
And what’s with the 25-to-1 male-to-female ratio?
The name of that place is the 8th Congressional District of California. I think you already know which famous Democrat represents that district.
Picture Nancy naked.
Pelosi pellucidly?
Gad, as if I weren’t already of diminished appetite….
Bill, I read your post and that was uncalled for, now I have this ugly picture in my mind and I won’t able to sleep tonight………..dam you man…….dam you!!
“nudity is not a crime” sign on fat woman’s butt
But being a fat pig is
Hey; you could go with the more open ended ‘but it should be’.
PS
On the other hand, in an Al Gore / greenie world it probably would be illegal to be a fat pig… just sayin…
Oh my God! I really don’t want to see her “more open-ended”!
It burns! It burns!
I’m glad I saw this after dinner. Otherwise I would have quite lost my appetite and wasted my wife’s wonderful cooking.
Thank you again for taking the time to document a “slice of life” in Pelosi’s district. Having moved to the Bay Area in the 80′s, I am keenly aware that most people outside have no idea what kind of a circus is considered “normal” here — and probably would have difficulty believing it without photographic proof.
Oh my goodness. Naked people.
Snore.
But I’ve spent a good bit of time in San Francisco — there’s a reason why they’d be blue.
Boy this has put me off my tea!!!
Reminds me of an old Gary Larson cartoon. Two bears are looking through the bushes at denizens of a nudist camp. One says to the other, “Well, there goes MY appetite.”
What makes these people think the public at large wants to see their naked bodies? I saw nothing attractive or appealing – just a lot of fat, naked, white people. Let’s make a deal – you keep your clothes on, and I won’t throw up all over you. How about that?
“You didn’t cover that”
As I’ve heard said, and this confirms, most of the people you see naked are not those you’d like to see naked.
How does that old saying go, again? “All the wrong Democrats are nudists”, right?
Who are the right ones, Nancy Lugosi? Barbara Mikulsky?
Or maybe L’il Debbie Wasserman Test or the Hildebeast? No thanks
Are there no African-Americans in San Fran?
Not very many, actually. They were all priced-out by the million-dollar fixer-uppers. Emigrated to Antioch and Pittsburg. Now it’s one of the Asian/whitest cities in America.
While they sit around and tell each other that conservatives can’t take being around people not like them…
That’s not unusual for liberal communities. While they howl about diversity, they do all they can to make their neighborhoods as homogenous and high income as possible. The middle class and poor Democrats can live all mixed together, but the elite? not a chance, unless it is a few select, token fellow ideologists they hire in so they can pretend to practice diversity.
Definitely homogenous…….oh that’s not what that word means.
Couldn’t agree more.
Nah, this is too weird even for the rest of California. No chance it will spread. Most people are just too ugly without clothes on.
Gets a little nippy this time of year, most places. I don’t see this catching on, especially since we might be heading for another Maunder Minimum.
Hmmmm, you use to have to go to the freak show at the circus to see the freaks, now you just have to go to Democrat enclaves. I think that Aliens quote applies here. Just to be sure.
Ever have one of those moments when you surprise yourself with the depths of ill-will you feel towards your fellow man, and can only think of ways to make their lives worse? Reading this article has induced that feeling in me. I’m thinking right now of packs of large vicious dogs, and launching hornet’s nests with water balloon launchers, and volley fire with paintball guns loaded with those pepper spray balls. Firehoses spraying sugar water and beehives. IRS audits out the (pardon the term) wazoo, video taken of them being shown at their high school reunions, that sort of thing. Aaarrggh.
I hate these people, for the way they’ve twisted the principles of the Founding to license their desire to act like animals. I suppose I’ll feel ashamed of that someday.
Pube-fest 2012
Where are those burkas when you need them?
Even the Baptists will contribute to the burka fund! It’s not just the naked people who can benefit from a few black drapes thrown over them. What about Candy Crowley?
indeed. Any law requiring clothing is no different from a law requiring burqahs.
If you’re for personal liberty, you are in favour of people being free to dress or go naked as they desire.
Only narrowminded nutcases think they should ever create laws demaning other people dress as they think is “proper”.
Reminds me of when I took some graduating seniors to Greece a few years back. I had to talk about the beaches, and I told my boys, “Sorry guys, the women you really want to see topless won’t be, and the women, you really, really DON’T want to see topless, WILL BE!”
It’s Sodom by the sea, Gomorrah by the bay. You must have a cast iron stomach and a lethargic gag reflex to cover such events Zombie. It’s important for the rest of America to see how depraved SF has become, so thanks for getting out there among the weird-asses to report back.
Email this post to everyone you know in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Zombie,
Is drug use as open as the nudity and sex are?
Some people — including the slender woman — were openly smoking pot. But (believe it or not) she walked with a cane and probably is considered “disabled” and so she has her “medical marijuana” card and so it is legal.
All of these degenerates are morally disabled. Maybe they can get a prescription for some medical arsenic.
Were public stonings really such a bad idea?
The racial component here can’t be ignored. What is it with us white people? And it’s not limited to SF.
That stands out, so to speak, in every such event. Where’s the multi in this culti?
Statistic on exhibitionism may be available by various statistic — I wouldnt be surprised if white males lead far and away.
The thing about public nudity is that with the possible exception of porn, the people you encounter in public who’re nude are never people you’d WANT to see naked – ever.
Even her?
Meh. Seen better at a nude beach.
The picture doesn’t possibly capture the smell.
Nudity may or not be a crime, but the fat ass lady walking around with the sign definitely is.
oh big deal. it really isn’t a very large group, it was a nice day, and, as you say, a good time was had by all. it looks less like an angry protest than just some good-natured frivolity. i doubt any kids who happened by will be scarred for life by seeing a few jolly naked people.
You may feel that way, and even I may feel that way to a certain extent, but this is all about “community standards,” not about what some jaundiced been-there-done-that seen-it-alls like us think. If even the “average” folks in the Castro are sick of the naked antics — and read what the mainstream gay newspaper Bay Area Reporter had to say on the subject — then we should opt for “local control” and let the locals in the Castro set their own rules.
And if you still think these people are mostly asexual nudists, check out what the protest’s sponsor’s site bucknakedinpublic.com is like (no link for them — paste in the URL yourself), and you’ll likely reconsider.
As I once wrote in an earlier essay:
See Zombie’s pics of the Folsom Street Fair. Ick. You may change your mind about setting a limit for what’s publicly viewable in San Fran.
Everyone always references my Folsom Street Fair report and glosses over the much more insane Up Your Alley Fair report.
Trust me, if you thought that Folsom photo essay was “ick,” then you probably shouldn’t even look at the Up Your Alley follow-up.
Ever consider a Mondo Cane type movie of these people?
“up your alley” has connotations by definition alone that would make me not want to go near that.
“i doubt any kids who happened by will be scarred for life by seeing a few jolly naked people”
Gay people dont have too many kids, (something to do with “the plumbing fixtures” being miss-matched) so SF is kinda low on the little ones….
You dont “grow-up” In SF, you go there as a screwed up young adult, and stay.
Those folks arent “jolly” their deviant and some of them LUST for children so its best to keep yours away at all costs
Hey Polacko go back to your porn site. Your comments are dumb as dirt. How many Polacks does it take to cheer on moral anarchy in a once sane nation?
If I wanted to see a bunch of shriveled up Hot Dogs, I would have gone to the Life Time fitness locker room today or go to QuikTrip later tonight.
bravo!
The scariest, and most telling, photo in this entire series is the last one, of the Chevron gas station. Really? $4.89 per gallon?
Yep. That’s what gas costs in California right now.
Coming soon to a state near you if Barack “Energy prices will necessarily have to rise under my plan” Obama is re-elected.
I think there is another reason for the high gas prices. I used to work in a refinery. A naked refinery worker would not survive 5 minutes, even with a hard hat. No wonder they have so many outages. That hot oil dripping from leaking valves can really hurt sensitive skin.
In other words, it is difficult, if not impossible, to run a state like bankrupt CA, or a society in general, if ones primary focus is on sexuality.
Actually, the real reason the prices are so insanely high in CA is that environmental extremists pushed through absurdly stringent emissions standards, and only three refineries had the capacity to make the gasoline required under the new law, and by sheer accident — a fire at one, some kind of safety issue at the other — two went offline, and suddenly there was a shortage. Who could have predicted?!?!?!?!????
Do think that’s a coincidence Zombie? Or some capitalist “thugs” getting together to put the screws to the pin heads and enviro-weenies? By turning on the pain at the pump on a whim?
Yeah, I looked.
But there really is nothing to see here.
I think “real nudists” do it for the enjoyment of getting naked with others who like it…always thought it was somewhere out in the woods where they didn’t force their nudity on other people.
But I guess one person’s rights no longer stop where they begin to infringe on other peoples’ rights. That might be too polite. And politeness is a sign of repression.
Blech.
Exactly what rights of others are being infringed upon by urban naturists? The right not to be offended? The right to have other people dress according to your preferences? The right to only be surrounded by things you like looking at? Help me here, I’m grasping to figure out what you could possibly be referring to.
Quit defending these degenerates
ok .. just roll in a dozen 500 lb naked people.. nothing against large people ..but i think even these open minded free to be nude people.. would think ..at least some people need to wear cloths
A gang of 10 year olds with pea shooters would have had a field day.
You cannot have self government unless you have self control. The people in San Francisco do not have self control. We need to put San Francisco in receivership.
I’d trade these assholes for illegal immigrants anyday.
San Francisco. A nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. Considering all this, I’m reminded of the concept of Cultural Marxism. Under economic Marxism the property of ordinary hard-working middle class individuals must be forcibly expropriated for redistribution to the lazy proletariat class, so it is that under Cultural Marxism the traditional Judeo-Christian morality of middle class Americans must be expropriated by the force of law so the new morality (the old immorality) can be distributed to American society.
“Herbert Marcuse…saw the 60s student rebellion as the great chance. He saw the opportunity to take the work of the Frankfurt School and make it the theory of the New Left in the United States. One of Marcuse’s books was the key book. It virtually became the bible of the SDS and the student rebels of the 60s. That book was Eros and Civilization. Marcuse argues that under a capitalistic order (he downplays the Marxism very strongly here, it is subtitled, A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, but the framework is Marxist), repression is the essence of that order and that gives us the person Freud describes – the person with all the hang-ups, the neuroses, because his sexual instincts are repressed. We can envision a future, if we can only destroy this existing oppressive order, in which we liberate eros, we liberate libido, in which we have a world of “polymorphous perversity,” in which you can “do you own thing,” “If it feels good do it,” and “You never have to go to work.” By the way, Marcuse is also the man who creates the phrase, “Make love, not war.”
http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/
Thank you for this link. Very important. I have seen parts of this history elsewhere, but this is the first time I have seen the whole history going back to the beginning of the 20th centruy.
Of course, the opposition to God-given morality goes back to Thomas Hobbes and Spinoza in the 17th century. That was a bubbling pot that didn’t start to boil until Darwin, Freud, Marx and the scientism of the 19th century. I guess you could say that with the Frankfurt School, the pressure of the boil blasted the pot’s top off and the steam exploded over the whole kitchen.
I just read Bella Dodd’s book today. Eye-opening stuff, especially the sidenotes about 1100 Communists recruited in the 1930′s to subvert the Catholic Church by becoming priests. “Smoke of Satan in the Vatican”, indeed!
I’m surprised to see so many young people joining in, quite a few of them are in good shape. And even a few women, albeit mostly hippies readying for retirement.
I’m 100% okay with this happening in San Francisco, where I know that it happens and I can choose to stay away. Foolish to have children in that city, and to stroll through the Castro with them.
This is what federalism does for us: San Francisco can be San Francisco, Tulsa can be Tulsa, and you can choose which one represents your values. We all get to make the communities we want, and stay out of the other ones. Freedom works. Leave the blue staters alone to make their hell, and let them live in it.
Only one problem; we haven’t been a genuinely federal republic for a while now, and (if you haven’t been paying attention) California has established itself as the place where new ideas happen. That is, once it becomes acceptable there, this lends weight to the nutjobs elsewhere. Remember where smoke-free restaurants came from? Remember how “normal” people laughed when we cynics predicted that such nanny-state laws would lead to outlawing snack foods or fast foods?
They aren’t laughing now.
Even though their minds may be gone at least they aren’t damaging anyone’s lungs by smoking. Priorities must be followed.
Look carefully at the first photo, in the lower right hand corner.
God gives stoneage people in tropical climates the good sense to cover up their scrotiliae.
The gang on the corner however wishes to share their smegma with the world.
These are the first people to scream about limiting your Constitutional right to carry a firearm in that very same park because it offends them.
No hot babes !
There ought to be a law: No more nudist conventions without hot babes.
O.K. fellas….join me in chanting:
We want hot babes !
We want hot babes !
This is something far beyond narcissistic wackjob SFers forcing everyone to look at their shrinkage and sit where their nasty parts were. It is about fascism. The story of abuse of sexuality to enslave in “Brave New World” was not written in a vacuum. Americans are way too uneducated about the real nature and history of fascism. Long before it became associated with grey-suited zombies marching into other nations and beating Jews, it was a rebellion against the Jewish God and the civilization that grew up with that God as center. The breeding ground for fascism was the break-all-norms culture of the 20′s and 30′s where av avante-garde “artists” attempted to shock and repulse the bourgeoisie with their scenes of glorified violence and with the release of primitive emotions. Veitch, in “Modern Fascism” writes, “It was about pleasure from violence, the thrill of moral rebellion, the cult of the Aryan body.” Rausching said, ““The Ten Commandments have lost their validity. Conscience is a Jewish invention, it is a blemish like circumcision.” And did not Hitler himself say this: “I freed Germany of the stupid and degrading fallacies of consequence morality …we will train young people before whom the whole world will tremble.”? Fascism was defeated militarily, not philosophically, politically, or culturally.
When it comes to “art” being debased — and its effect on society — I can’t help but think of the damage done sine the album “Straight Outta Compton” was released. It went to court, as it was so offensive to most people’s standards, and thanks to the testimony of academics and critics, it was declared “art” — which opened the door to the whole thug/gangsta culture, with its horrific effcts on society. Because of the “soft bigotry of low expectations” and the demands of PC favoritism toward minority groups, we’ve seen changes the 1930′s fascists would have delighted in.
Figures it would be in the Castro.
I’d probably protest too, if I had blurry squares where my parts should be.
First LOL comment for me!
Fuck would the islamists go into San Fran and clean house. LOL
Gross.
End of post.
Gross.
Well; fight the power… or.. whatever…[eye roll]
(It’s a thousand times more subversive to be a conservative…)
Zombie, which beer company sponsored this latest Pervathon?
FTFY
If I happen to touch the chest of a nude person does the law treat me the same if the nude person is a man or a woman?
Okay, somebody please pass the eye bleach.
Ponder, if you will, the smallness of those minds, the emptiness of those lives.
And they vote.
Scary, isn’t it?
…cfbleachers, WHERE ARE YOU?
Zombie… thanks for this, you’ll never know how much this will help me prove some points I’ve been trying to make with some family that are on the fence!
Wow! Are a bunch of these people ugly or what. They are walking talking advertisements for excess Twinkie consumption except for one of course. We all know which female that was.
California, where the weird go pro!
Seriously stop sending all the freaks to California.
Notes that there is a shocking absence of nude freaks in Chicago.
Well that’s not pretty.
I’m feeling so left out here in Flyover Land, all we get is Friday night football at the high school, bonfires in the backyard, and maybe a patriotic parade or two in July. I want to be cool like the big city folk!
So, really, this is about more naked gay males in gay San Francisco.
I’m, oh, shocked, shocked! Sort of.
A lot of leftovers from the 60s hippie movement in that crowd.
It’s time for compromise on this issue. Ugly people (see above) should be covered in tarps at all time. Hot mamas should be able to do what they like (not seen above).
Let them keep it up. The bigger obscenity they make of themselves, the less they will be able to hide the truth of what Democrats really are. Of course, if the media wasn’t working hard to bury the reality of The Party, more people would be disgusted with them and would turn from them, or one can hope.
Dear Zombie-Im from Central Europe, so this does perhaps not concern me.Yet. I believe than, in the whole of Europe, left-wing radicals are pushing the limits,step by step.But Your pictures (what shocked me most were the “up your alley” ones) are just oO! Dou you think this crazyness will go on forever or rather that the next generation will do several steps back towards reason? Or, do You think such things could become more wide-spread?
I can’t predict the future! I could make a bunch of educated guesses, but really they wouldn’t be any more accurate than anyone else’s.
All I can say is that I think society will fissure into specialized sub-groups and sub-classes, and the prudes will have their own little society while the perverts have theirs — and they will mutually ensure little or no interaction!
Disgusting and barbaric.
Zombie: please define “prude.”
I just use the terms each side calls the other — prude, pervert — to be even-handed.
A prude is someone who doesn’t want to inhale some stranger’s smegma unwittingly.
Thank you.
A man walking about with his putz on display or a woman dangling her ladies about is not necessarily perverted. Such action is, however, disgusting and barbaric, not to mention narcissistic and infantile..
It’s racist to be smegmaphobic, you know…
Or so I’m told.
you really have to pity the poor pathetic f****ts
My eyes!!!!
The goggles, they do nothing!!! NOTHING!!!
tldr; fat ugly naked people = dead movement.
Also, I’m sure many of the participants…heh…enjoy wearing their Pedobear mask when the normals aren’t around.
“Nudity is not a crime.”
Yes, but for some people it ought to be.
“…if the movement gains momentum, could it expand to all of California, and then eventually nationwide?”
Nah, most of these kind of kooks live in Cal, especially SF.
Zombie, you were once asked how it was that you got such good pictures of OWS demonstrations. And you said that you dressed like the crowd.
I’m just wondering. Did you dress like the crowd this time also ?
Only my dermatologist knows for sure!
By the way, can you provide links to the Folsom Street Fair and the Up Your Alley Fair. Never saw those photo essays.
Just visit my zombietime home page and search for the links there. Due to the mostly family friendly ambience on PJM, I won’t link directly,
Clothing is functional. It makes no more sense to wander around a city nekkid than it does to go barefoot in a city park. These people are exhibitionists indulging their desire to get a reaction to other people, and not to be taken seriously.
As usual with the looney left they have managed to get it wrong. Public nudity IS a crime, called Public Indecency. If you want to walk your ugly naked body around your apartment or house, knock yourself out. The rest of us don’t care to see your saggy, flabby, most often white, unattractive, wrinkly, body parts. Someone needs to tell these folks that they aren’t impressive and that gravity and cold have taken their toll to the detriment of all concerned.
For pity’s sake, grow up and put on some clothes a lot of clothes, now. I have a two year old grandchild that has more self respect than this lot.
In the liberal pantheon, we are all to bow down to the noble savage, the sainted Sodomite. We see photos of Matthew Shepherd implying that he was crucified without sin, not a pathetic figure murdered because he acted out in the presence of meth freaks. These morally depraved people do us a favor by showing us the empty sick world they inhabit.
God, was that hard on the eyes.
I haven’t laughed so hard since I saw Horrible Bosses. Reading the comments was a laugh fest and I almost spit out my coffee several times. Thanks to all for starting my morning off on such a high humor note.
I think there should be a BMI index requirement if you want to engage in public nudity, over 25 BMI, you must wear SOME clothing and socks don’t count. And guys, when it gets cold, you’re not as impressive.
Let’s see – 100 naked protestors of which 10 were women. Conclusion, women are 10x smarter than men, but a few are on the same level.
Those are some butt ugly people……Round them up and parachute them into muslim brotherhood territory……
How is it that adults can expose themselves to children that walk by and not be arrested?
That was the final straw for the naked activists — what every Ohio voter needs to see.
Why? Ohio voters don’t see themselves the same way SF voters do?
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These SF nut jobs represent a fringe group.
One reason Nudist’s never caught on in the Midwest….dude it’s cold in the winter. It’s the weather, stupid! [no meanness intended Zombie
The reason Ohio voters would benefit from seeing what a deep-blue district is really like is so they can get a glimpse into what the future of their own area would tend toward if they embraced the Dem/progressive worldview in their voting preferences.
Remember, for example, that Hitler was elected Chancellor — but if you could have given the 1933 German voters a peek at Berlin in May of 1945, and revealed to them “This is you’re voting for — are you sure you really want this consequence?” then perhaps they would reconsider before making that mistake.
Ohio voters hopefully know the economic consequences of voting for a deep blue America, but have they considered the cultural consequences? I wager not.
You missed my point entirely!
Chicago is as blue as it gets, but there’s no nudists. The weather is too crappy and unpredictable!
I have nudists in my family. We live in California. They go to a colony and stay there, they don’t parade in public.
SF is 90 miles away. I only go there for sports as the city is filthy and unsafe. They had a 58% murder conviction rate, and they worry about going naked.
That’s SF for you.
Reason number one thousand fifty six why I left California.
All in all, I’m just not impressed. Now, if they ran around Purdue’s Cary Quadrangle on the coldest night of the year while students threw snowballs at them, that’s another story (one which my children have not heard…)
I like the OBEY cap on the (clothed) Gentleman in the second last pic. Is that offical Obama merchandise?
Now, if these photo’s showed some hot young women with nice figures and firm breasts I would be for public nudity. But looking at these fat sagging middle aged men, now I think keeping public nudity illegal is a good idea.
This article isnt quite accurate. There are many flaws which I would love to correct.
- nudity is currently legal in San Francisco and we are not trying to legalize it
- the nudity ban will affect more than just nudists
- This rally was organized by a non nudest (myself) who doesnt hang out naked in the plaza where there is suppose to be a problem
- there are already lewdness laws on the books
Feel free to ask me about any questions or concerns however this rally although for nudity, was more against the proposed ban as the ban was not thought out well before proposing it to legislature.
Thanks,
Desmond
As to your “corrections”:
- I point out in the essay more than once that nudity is already legal in SF;
- Who will it affect other than people without clothes on?
- The rally seemed to have several leaders — the Sister of P.I. were there, as were the main nude activists, and the Buck Naked people, and the folks using the bullhorns; I never made any claims about who was the original organizer;
- I also point out that there are laws against having public erections (“lewdness laws:) in SF.
Yeah, I wondered about that lewdness law. Hypothetically, if a man were strolling down the street being naked but not lewd, and say he was to encounter a hot young woman doing likewise, how exactly would he protect himself from being made into a criminal? Is that what the towel is for?
I used to think I would like to move to San Francisco. Thanks for setting me straight.
This protest reminds me of how obnoxious hippies used to be — selfish, childish, and disdainful of anyone else’s rights.
and your statement reminds me of how selfish, childish, and disdainful of everyone elses’ rights many so-called “conservatives” are.
Nobody is hurt by the sight of a naked human body, it’s only your selfish control freak streak that wants to dictate what other people wear, your disrespect for the opinions and lifestyles of anyone whose opinion and lifestyle doesn’t match with you consider “proper”.
I’m all against laws requiring nudity, but I’m just as much against laws banning it. A law banning nudity is the first step towards a law demanding burqahs, or tophats, or whatever the powers that be determine to be “correct mode of dress”.
Won’t wash, you’re appropriating a public space to get your jollies. You couldn’t knock on someone’s front door naked and expect to be allowed into the house, don’t expect warm approval when you decide to go out in public and wave your dick around when families with small children might see you.
It is true that nobody is physically hurt by the sight of a naked human body, but public nakedness is offensive and damaging to the human soul. If there is no God in Heaven; if man has no soul; if man is only an animal; then, as you would have it, man, like the lower animals, should be free to be naturally naked in public. But we are not like dogs or pigs; man possesses a soul; man is made in the image of God; so to be a son or daughter of God one must act the part, and not act like a dog.
Doesn’t wash when you’re in publid, and besides, we’re not monkeys, though some of us act like them.
Take your stupid libertarian act someplace else.
I think you might have accidentally used the wrong verb tense there. You said hippies used to be obnoxious.
Where do I invest in AstroGlide?
These deranged LOON-A-TRONS are obviously mentally ill. Nancy Pelosi’s constituents….how apropos, since she’s insane herself. They need to throw a net over the whole bunch, put them in straight jackets and keep them on thorazine so they don’t hurt themselves or annoy anyone. San Fransicko……home of the Liberalism IS A Dangerous Mental Disorder crowd!!
I’m still going to remain in California and fight. If you’re a native, leaving the state is as spineless as fleeing the US after losing the election.
However it will be painful because it needs to get much much worse before it gets better. It’s not nearly in-the-face bad enough yet for average dipwad California voters, though one wonders how bad indeed that would have to be.
Unfortunately, it’s going to take a shooting type revolution to fix the insane mess that Mexifornia has and IS becoming Todd….Good luck.
I wonder what you’d get if you dropped this group of wackjobs into an NRA convention?? The mental pictures that come to mind are pretty funny…….
As I have noted before, most displays of public nudity are from people you really just as soon not see naked.
Notice most of the protesters are older white men. Where are the young women? The few women pictured…eh.
your reporter probably saved those pictures to his private stash to jerk off on. They’re not going to promote the issue he wants to bring across (the demand he makes for laws demanding what he considers “proper dress”) so they’re not being published.
Same way that warmists don’t allow to be published anything that doesn’t promote their agenda.
Ah, the customary calm, mature, reasoned response we’ve come to expect from the Left.
No, I think he’s one of those arch-libertarian Ron Paul types, the kind who thinks moral standards have no place in law.
When your pathetic existence doesn’t garner the attention you are desperate for, walk around naked. Truly sad watching grown people behave this way.
I noticed some guy’s pixellated area isn’t as uhm…… big as some other guy’s pixellated area. Is that harassment, or cyber-bullying, I wonder?…..;P…….
Some people are longer than others — no getting around it. Go to the zombietime uncensored version if you want direct unpixelated comparisons.
‘Oddly’ the circus NEVER seems to take place in more ‘multicultural’ or ‘diverse’ areas of the Bay Area.
Oakland, Antioch, Pittsburgh, Richmond, San Jose etc.,
If these folks were indeed serious about their intentions it wouldn’t be limited to a ~3 block radius.
This, like SO MANY Illiberal ‘rights’ constructs it’s more theatrics for themselves and NOT for ANY type of ‘right’.
The same can be said of then-California’s Prop 8 from 2008. Whereas the aforementioned areas, as well as many of SoCal’s MANY ‘multicultural and diverse’ areas didn’t have Prop 8 opponents in these areas to deter those votes. Which is EXACTLY where they should have petitioned, put their tent stakes, door-to-door conversations etc.,
For those very same areas, people is WHY Prop 8 passed! ~50% of California’s Anglos were for Prop 8 whereas their Black, Latino and Mexican citizens were overwhelmingly FOR Prop 8.
Nope.. the above and other Illiberal types from California are cowards. And they know it.
I liken these folks nonsense to the television sketch comedy program, ‘In Loving Color’. Specifically the character, ‘Stewart’. Whereas Stewart states, ‘Look what I can do’ and follows through with an unremarkable physical act. His seeking approval for nada..
It’s a god-damned sausage-fest. Eeeew.
This demonstration almost makes you wish for Sharia law in SF.
Yeesh. I had wanted to go see Death Becomes Her in theaters again… but boy, howdy am I glad TLG and I opted to stay in on Saturday instead of venturing to the Castro.
I live in a nutbar city.
TLG attends church in the Castro and she tells me even the locals there are OVER all the naked people.
White folks are from the seed of satan. How disgusting! The more I see things like this the more I know how real the word of God is. “And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.” Luke 17:26
What is this? Now we got racist black religious types posting here? Did you forget your pot at home, Mr. Rastafarian?
“God turned the country up on its side, and everything that wasn’t nailed down fell into California.” — Frank Lloyd Wright (attributed)
As Zombie (and Mark Twain) have noted, SF can be mighty chilly year-round. So let the nudity continue. The fools will eventually catch pneumonia and die.
Problem solved. Darwin strikes again!
This is what you get when liberals are in charge. They don’t care about running around nude…they just need an excuse to show off their sicko lifestyle.
Great post as always, Zom.
Observations:
As a gay, conservative woman, I hate that these folks are associated with me. I work hard, I pay a lot of taxes, I give back to the greater community. I want the freedom to live a quiet life, pass on what I have earned to my partner. These people want the ‘freedom’ to offend others.
I have walked past the plaza when going to movies at the (I live in the suburbs) and there are usually a handful of naked men, nude, in their 50s, too tan. I’m with the Darwin comment. If anyone is familiar with SF weather, they know there is no reason to be outside naked!!! Also, incredibly unfortunate placement of the Creme Brûlée food truck. ::shudder::
Off topic – Zombie I heard on the news that Occupy Oakland is going to have a 1year anniversary protest of their riot tomorrow at 7pm. Will you be documenting that?
After viewing that there is only one song that comes to mind;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_6I50oXAVM
Excellent! I think I will send this to my soon-to-be-ex husband!
What strikes me about this event and other in SF covered by ‘Zombie’ is;
1. Most of the participants are male.
2. The unclothed physique is certainty nothing to flaunt unclothed.
3. One could say there is a correlation between the wackiness of an event/cause and the crowd of participants it draws, i.e, the wackier, the smaller the crowd.
I was going to eat dinner before I saw this article, but now, it’s not going to be franks and beans.
I have a Lean Cuisine Roast Turkey Breast/stuffing/apples that I can keep down after viewing the pics in the story.
Also will need an eye transplant.
At least Helen Thomas wasn’t there, or Lady Gaga (aka Lady Gag-me).
Obama voters.
Fight Back!
Itching Powder!
A pod of vulgarians at a hog wallow.
Looks like the same two dozen people! What’s the big deal-they are all ugly