But why is it in poor taste to go topless? Only because we live in a society that has sexualized certain parts of women’s bodies to the point of inability to see them any other way.

As you point out, you were not brought up in a society in which females go around topless. But that is nurture, not nature, and that’s precisely what I am saying. Many cultures do not over-sexualize the female breast (hence the secret stash of National Geographics among young boys in the olden days, before boobs were so easily viewable on TV). The double standard is simply what we are taught, not what is innately sensible.

Double standards? Maybe, but I don’t see it that way in this instance. I don’t live in a society that condones females going around topless in public, nor was I brought up in a society where the women go topless outside of men’s clubs or nudist’s colonies.

In my mind, it has nothing to do with freedom denied a woman or granted to a man. It’s a matter of good common sense.