(Textiles are those who go to nude or C/O beaches and insist on wearing clothes the whole time.)

First, I don't hate textiles, at least not all. There are good reasons to be a textile, like it's your first time and you're checking it out until you feel comfortable, or you're supporting a partner who is going nude. But since 2020 it's gone from a few to majority Textile Creeperville. After six seasons, we need to encourage the textiles to move on. There are hundreds of clothing REQUIRED beaches for textiles to choose from, it's creepy for them to invade our only two safe spaces.

Second, I'm not talking about the "gay areas". The gay areas are fun but as a woman, I don't feel comfortable there and with the rest of the beach being taken over by textiles, myself and other nudist women are left without places to go and be comfortable topless/nude.

I've seen the NO TEXTILES signs (and even stickers last year!) and other forms of protest that some were putting on and I found some of them to be a bit harsh, I get it, I'm over it too. I don't want to banish all textiles, but every year it's gotten worse and something desperately needs to change. I'm part of a women's group that has around 90 members and all of them have decided that they likely won't be going this year citing that they too are tired of being on display for textiles. Even the 20-somethings in the group have said that they likely won't go. This is sad. The younger gen is giving up. What should be their introduction to everything great about RR & CB, is being turned over to the group that insists on prudishly wearing clothes in one of the only two nudist friendly beach safe spaces.

I've been going to RR and CB since I was born. My parents and grandparents will tell you about when they were both "nude beaches" and when they became officially protected nude beaches, they were given "Clothing Optional" titles as to not draw the ire of prudes for having the state sanction a "nude" anything. To me, and tens of thousands of others going back to the 70's, they were always NUDE BEACHES. Up until the textile invasion of 2020, this wasn't a problem; for 40 years no one took issue with textiles - there simply weren't many of them and those that were there, were either a rare passerby or those supporting their partners. Today tho, it's more textiles than nudists. To say that these are 'clothing optional' beaches to justify invading them with clothes, is tiring. A gay bar is public, what do you think would happen if they were taken over by st8 maga men? Similar thing.

Since 2020, RR and CB have not been safe or comfortable places for many of us nudists. It used to be the occasional 'bro' who'd throw his frisbee onto my towel and try to hit on me, or the occasional bushwhacker, or maybe the couple that insisted on protecting me from some fictitious creep, but since 2020, I've more often than not just felt like I'm on display at a zoo for the textiles. It's weird to be the only topless/nude woman and be surrounded by a sea of clothed people. RR and CB have become these strange cool places for all the hipsters/influencers to go to. They take pictures with nudists in the background and then post their 'we're so cool, we're at a nude beach!' to their socials. Over the past six years I've seen these beaches go from full of fellow nudists to now being textile beaches with occasional topless/nudity sprinkled in. I used to go with a group of friends occasionally, but no one wants to go anymore, all citing that they feel like they are on display for the textiles and used for background props for their IG posts.

I know some of you, especially penis owners who tend to be very proud to show off, really don't care about textiles, but try to think about this from the perspective of someone who doesn't want to go and be treated as a zoo animal. While you may LOVE the idea of everyone staring at you, there are lots of us who don't. Break out of your ego and try putting on your Empathy hat here.

So what can we do? Do we really need to put up signs? I don't like it, but I get it. Do we just start blasting them on their socials? Create memes? I don't know. I've been trying to get them elsewhere for six years, but they just keep coming back in droves. To me, textiles are self-centered assholes with zero empathy or respect. They are the kind of straights that go to lesbian bars to hit on women trying to find a unicorn. They are the kind of people that litter. They are the kind of people that use their speakerphones in public. They listen to shitty music from their Bluetooth speaker at full blast in public. They talk in the movie theaters from start to end. They str8 maga men who go to a gay bar and then say "it's public."

Ideas?

And because I know I'm going to get hate for this, as there are a few each year who insist on defending textiles and attacking nudists, for these self-centered hateful people, here's your inevitable questions and my answers.

"But it's clothing OPTIONAL!"

Yes, but why insist on invading a nudist's safe-space if you have no plans to go nude? That's creepy.

"But I love RR/CB!"

We do too. RR and CB are special, but we all know that there are hundreds of equally beautiful beaches and parks nearby for you to go to that REQUIRE clothes. Go there.

"I like the vibe!"

Since the beaches are mostly textiles now, why not get the other textiles together and create your own beach with the same vibe elsewhere? The "vibe" that was here, you've killed off and replaced with your own. It's not the nudists vibe, it's the textiles 'tee hee, we're at a nude beach' Portlandia/hipster/IG vibe that you've brought with you.

"I don't care."

Selfish take. If you're a nudist, why don't you want to defend nudism?

"Join a nudist camp"

No. I've been to those and they are NOT even remotely the same.

"Go be nude elsewhere"

No. Why should nudists have to cater to textiles here?

Why go to a clothing optional beach, one of only two around in a sea of hundreds of CLOTHING REQUIRED beaches, knowing that you are making nudists feel uncomfortable? Even making one nudist uncomfortable is gross enough, but in one of two places we can go?? Gross. Are you really that self-centered? Going to a nudist area and being clothed does not make you cool, in fact, your friends are likely clowning you for being creepy, even if you are a woman.

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Please don't be a creep. No one likes creeps.

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