Can male and female bodies be treated same way?

Made this topic after reading conversation on another thread and after the hype around recent controversial #FreeTheNipple campaign.

Can bodies of males and females be treated the same?

Why can't women roam topless but men can? (Though in many places, and families, men are also not allowed to be anything less than fully clothed)

Why's an ad for men's innerwear okay but ads for women's innerwear are either not shown or are deemed vulgar/inappropriate?

It's still a big deal about women's cleavage, or whether they were covered properly with dupatta and pallu or not. Women are discouraged from scratching openly, cautioned if bra strap is showing. Breast feeding should also be done in private or being "covered".

Debates about women's clothing go on endlessly. Sometimes women are even called out if their breasts "move too much" when they laugh!

Somehow there's always a certain sense of "shame" and embarrassment associated with female's body.

Even females themselves comment on what other female was wearing or where her clothes were "going" (be it dupatta or jeans).

Women's bodies are also scrutinised more, weight, skin colour, size and shape of body parts etc. That level of nitpicking and scrutiny is never there for male bodies.

There are rules on how women should or shouldn't sit, lie down, run, jump, play, stand etc. (Probably it has to do with their bodies)

Can this be changed?

Is it ever possible to treat female body absolutely normally without association of shame, vulgarity, embarrassment, titillation, propriety?

I was looking up something about the free the nipple campaign as I had no idea what it was. But Return To Hades is right, there are tribes out there which don't have any issue with female breasts at all. It is a case of rules and restrictions being placed on people over time concerning what is right and what is the wrong way to behave. I am not a supporter of the campaign though.

@Believe

Originally posted by: Druids

@Believe

That's deep. But yes, women are more centered then men and that's why they can be so solipsistic.

Another that men don't really need to apply makeup but women have this feeling that they look so charming if they apply makeup..and hence prefer wearing makeup on special events.
A woman doesn't show elegance if she doesn't fully cross or stick her legs together while sitting on a chair.She also usually has to remain conscious while bending, avoid bending...such rules don't apply on men.

This is based on the first post by 'Atominis'.

My question is why are the questions you have put up in the post important? I am definitely a male person. But this is how I take.

Why do I have to look into what the society tells me to do? The society can put up any number of restrictions . The society may ridicule me in any number of ways. But then that is the way society is.

God has created every human being to be special. Myself and yourself have special talents. Even as I practice being more caring, compassionate, gentle, tender, understanding and loving, I find I am definitely special. As a fact many persons ridicule me because, I am an introvert. But I am now least bothered about what people tell about me.

For a person who is interested in making some mark, these questions won't become important. There have been women I know who have made mark as engineers in site, as drillers in oil rig ship, in police force etc. Did they ask these questions? One thing I understand is if I believe I am a victim, I am going to go nowhere.

If a husband and wife present themselves to a judge for a divorce case, the question the judge asks the man is 'Will you take her back?' and the question the judge asks the wife is, 'Will you live with him?'. Why doesn't the judge ask the man, 'Will you live with her?' like he asks the woman 'Will you live with him?'