Getting Naked to Change the World

[NNN0LHI]

(Warning: Photos of nekid people at link) My favorite is # 3 by the way.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/femen-activists-get-naked-to-raise-political-awareness-a-832028.html

05/11/2012 11.05.2012

The Body Politic

Getting Naked to Change the World

By Dialika Neufeld

The Ukrainian activist group Femen has made headlines around the world by baring their breasts to protest against prostitution, exploitation and corruption. But can their naked stunts change anything, or are they just providing images for a sex-obsessed media?

Oksana Shachko, a girl with a doll-like face, is supposed to go to prison for five years.

It's a cool spring Thursday in Ukraine as the 24-year-old walks through the streets of Kiev with her attorney. She is wearing a leather jacket and black boots, and dangling an almost-finished cigarette between her fingers. Five years, because she bared her breasts in public once again.

The hearing at the Interior Ministry is at 5 p.m., and they are in a hurry. They walk past tall, brown and gray buildings from the Stalin era. They discuss ways to put a positive spin on the expression "kiss my ass," which is what Oksana said to the Indian ambassador. "It was a happy protest. A happy protest for the rights of Ukrainian women," Oksana finally says. She's decided it's what she will say in the hearing at the Interior Ministry.

[zbdent]

1. There's a reason to get naked? And here I've been doing it for fun ...

(I apologize for the mental image ...)

[Archae]

2. Can you keep us abreast of these protest groups?

But it's the men who are making boobs of themselves.

[Iggo]

3. I'm a gross boy, and I clicked for the obvious reason.

But there are some powerful, powerful photos there.

Recommended.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. They get Zero media coverage here

(no surprise: what if caught on!), but lots of media attention overseas. I stumble across an article (usually with lots of pictures) about once a week. These girls are hardcore activists. And by the looks of many of them, they have given up the obvious career choices of being models, or trophy wives. Go Femen!