Each year a group organizes a mass bike ride, modelled after the Critical
Mass bike ride in San Francisco. In the SF ride, hundreds and thousands
of bikes gather for the Friday evening commute, taking over the road and
feeling safe in numbers.
On the Playa, women who want to enjoy the freedom to not wear a top (that
men enjoy in ordinary society) gather together for a mass bike ride. There
are many hundreds of them. What's great as well is that many
women who want that freedom but don't feel safe -- even at Burning Man,
topless women will get enough unwanted attention to scare them away from
it -- get a chance to feel safe in the crowd. And there's a fine party
after that.
I followed the ride and a normally more shy friend who rode in it. And sure,
I took many photos, for even though breasts may become commonplace
and thus normal in Black Rock City, that doesn't mean we guys stop admiring.
(We keep admiring women's bodies even when they're fully clothed, too.)
We just get a chance to stop treating it as something shocking and unexpected.
The women in non-group photos here gave their permission to be photographed
and appear on a web site.
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The very start of Critical Tits. The woman charge in huge numbers, proud and excited
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Get some sense of the tremendous large size of the parade this year
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A fragment of the parade goes through the flags
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Parade continues down esplanade
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Parade in front of Oregon Country Fair Camp
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The party after the critical tits parade
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Another shot of party after parade. Tastefully shot with signs and no breasts so you can show it anywhere.
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