Opposition to SF “nudity ban” shows much of what’s wrong w/ modern-day liberalism

A San Francisco Supervisor has proposed a public nudity ban, with exceptions to be made for sex-themed parades and festivals.Β  The AP reports:

San Francisco’s lawmakers are voting Tuesday on whether to ban nudity in aΒ  city where anything goes, including clothes.

The ordinance would prohibit nudity in most public places. It represents anΒ  escalation of a two-year fight between a group of men who strut their stuffΒ  through the city’s famously gay Castro District and the supervisor whoΒ  represents the area.

Supervisor Scott Wiener’s proposal would make it illegal for a person overΒ  the age of 5 to “expose his or her genitals, perineum or anal region on anyΒ  public street, sidewalk, street median, parklet or plaza” or while using publicΒ  transit.

“I don’t think having some guys taking their clothes off and hanging outΒ  seven days a week at Castro and Market Street is really what San Francisco isΒ  about. I think it’s a caricature of what San Francisco is about,” WienerΒ  said.

Exemptions would be made for participants at permitted street fairs andΒ  parades, such as the city’s annual gay pride event and the Folsom Street Fair,Β  which celebrates sadomasochism and other sexual subcultures.

A first offense would carry a maximum penalty of a $100 fine, but prosecutorsΒ  would have authority to charge a third violation as a misdemeanor punishable byΒ  up to a $500 fine and a year in jail.

Wiener said he felt compelled to act after constituents complained about theΒ  naked men who gather in a small Castro plaza most days and sometimes walk theΒ  streets au naturel. He persuaded his colleagues last year to pass a lawΒ  requiring a cloth to be placed between public seating and bare bottoms, but theΒ  complaints have continued.

The proposed ban predictably has produced outrage, as well as a lawsuit. LastΒ  week, about two dozen people undressed in front of City Hall and marched aroundΒ  the block to the amusement of gawking tourists.

Stripped down to his sunglasses and hiking boots, McCray Winpsett, 37, saidΒ  he understands the disgust of residents who would prefer not to see the bodyΒ  modifications and sex enhancement devices sported by some of the Castro nudists.Β  But he thinks Wiener’s prohibition goes too far in undermining a tradition “thatΒ  keeps San Francisco weird.”

“A few lewd exhibitionists are really ruining it for the rest of us,” heΒ  said.

No, what’s “ruining” things in San Francisco is the “anything goes” mentality of the far left. Really – these morons think a ban on public nudity infringes on their “free speech rights” andΒ because they believe that, aΒ “federal lawsuit” has been filed to block the ordinance proposed by Wiener (assuming it passes).Β  They seriously believe their “right” to walk around nude in the Castro district trumps the rights of other people living or touring the area who would like to do so without being exposed to what amounts to cheap exhibitionism from so-called ‘adults” who have never grown up.Β  From another article on this issue:

Supervisor Scott Wiener introduced the proposal to curb undressing after residents complained about a daily gathering of naked men in Jane Warner Plaza, a square in the Castro District. He called the lawsuit a baseless “publicity stunt.”

“There’s always been occasional public nudity in San Francisco. Over the last two years it’s gone from being this quirky, occasional thing to an obnoxious, over-the-top thing,” Wiener said in an interview.

“A lot of people who live in the neighborhood are just sick of the fact that seven days a week there are men taking their pants off and displaying their genitals on our sidewalks and plaza,” he added.

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San Francisco last year began requiring nudists to cover their buttocks in public and to wear clothes in restaurants. Residents say the restrictions only incited the so-called Naked Guys to grow more exhibitionist.

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Dan Glazer, owner of the Hot Cookie, a Castro bakery known for genital-shaped cookies, expressed mixed emotions about the proposed ban.

He said tourists flock to the area to see the Naked Guys and snap pictures, and probably have helped his business. He also said he would hate to see limited police resources used to enforce a nudity ban.

On the other hand, he said, the nudists have crossed the line into an irritating form of exhibitionism, and were “taking advantage of our neighborhood’s openness, of the gay community’s tolerance.”

No sh*t, Sherlock.

There is a reason most of America has laws against public nudity outside of designated “nude beaches.” Why?Β Β Most people who walk around that way in places like Castro and other “free-spirited” parts of AmericaΒ are not trying to expressΒ “free speech rights” but instead are doing so to show out, to shock other peopleΒ out of a perverse sense of narcissism,Β and ultimately to get laid.Β Β  In the process, people who don’t want to be exposed to this nonsense are – and that includes children andΒ women who would prefer to walk down the street window shoppingΒ and not be inadverantly flashed by private male body parts, thank you very much.

Not only that, but you have the associated health hazards that come with allowing people to walk around au naturale, especially when they sit down or “bump” into you “by accident.”Β  I don’t have to explain that in detail to the adults reading this, but it’s obviously something SF itself took into consideration last year, which is why theyΒ now require people to wear clothes in restaurants and for their “buttocks to be covered” when sitting down.

Duh.

This is what happens when you have predominiantly liberal communities and cities thatΒ believe there should be “no boundaries” as “long as you’re not physically hurting anyone else.”Β  Lines have to be drawn, or otherwise youΒ will eventuallyΒ have idiots who will take things too far to the point there is no turning back outside of doing a complete reversal – something predicted by opponents of “no boundaries” laws in the first place.Β Β  Deep down, liberals who propose such things as striking down bans on public nudity eventually expose themselves, and not just in a physical sense but in emotional andΒ mental senses as well – letting you know that they have the maturity level of a 14 year old. Yet they actually try to pass off such ideasΒ as being “enlightened’ and “progressive.” In reality, it’s a juvenile mindset that is harmful to serious-minded people (adults)Β who have no problems with people being “free-spirted” as long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of others to enjoy their towns and cities free from worry over being exposed to too much of their neighbors.

San Francisco’sΒ interior is rotting to the core economically, financially, spiritually, and culturally, and the only difference between it and the more obvious big city liberal failures like Detroit is that the notorious left coast city has an exterior beauty that is – currently – beyond compare to most cities in America.Β  But for how long?

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