Muslim Women Shockingly Not Grateful for Topless European Ladies Trying To Save Them

[sufrommich]

55. Actually, they remind me of feminist street theater in the 1970s

and,judging by an interview with one of their leaders, they fall much more in line with 2nd wave feminists:

http://osocio.org/academy/message/exclusive_interview_with_femens_founder_anna_hutsol/


The problem is that they're attempting to apply a very European/American/1st world standard of activism to a culturally different area of the world that already has deep suspicions that 1st worlders see them as culturally inferior people,as I said before,even feminists in these religiously structured countries find it insulting.

I really don't have a problem with Femen in regard to how they fight their battle in their own cultural backyard,it's their clumsy attempt at garnering support of women in the arab world that bothers me.I live in the Detroit area around many,many Arabs,I've lived with them,hung out with them and gone to school with them all my life,I will say that at least with Arabs in the US,there is no way I would judge an Arab woman's commitment to feminist ideals based on what she wears on her head or her style of dress,that is not a good indicator for much of anything other than personal choice.In countries where women have no choice in how they dress, mocking them for that seems counter productive.