I do not need... Eurocentric feminists to dictate to me what I wear or shouldn't wear.

[Prism]

337. And to that I say, so what?

You use the tools at hand to get the job done. They used their breasts to command attention. Do you understand why it was so effective? Because of the context of the culture they're living in.

I live and work around Berkeley, CA. I see breasts at public events all the time (and penises for that matter). No one here particularly cares. It never makes headlines. Why not? If these male-dominated media are helplessly susceptible to a boobfrenzy, why am I not reading all about it?

Because in this very liberal culture, it just isn't a big deal.

In Islamic culture, it's a massive deal. Islam, rightly or wrongly, is perceived in the West as a highly oppressive society towards women. When we see topless women flipping off Imams, that is a novel, radical act to our perceptions. It commands our attention. It's something the West doesn't see everyday.

See, the problem with this whole kerfuffle is that it laments nudity and sex being effective without ever really addressing why it is so effective in this context. The rational is lazily supplied as "Men are horny perverts. That's why."

Not only is that an explanation in service to a bias ( and a misandrist one at that), falling into it creates a tunnel vision that necessitates by default a misunderstanding of where Femen is coming from and why what they're doing is important.

In other words, your ideology is setting you up for failure right out of the gate.

As for muting other voices and women. Phyllis Schafly and people like Concerned Women For America have been saying that about liberal women for decades.

That's what is so odd to me. People are taking the Schafly position here and calling it feminism. And only because they're patronizing another culture. Well, those Muslims shouldn't be held to Western standards. If they want to slam their leftists radical feminists while promoting conservative culture, who are we to say?

Who, indeed.

And because those Schafly types are against this nudity, and you don't like the nudity, well, what the hell.

Maybe this is a crazy notion, but I'm a liberal without borders. What I would not put up with here, I will not put up with anywhere else.