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In reply to the discussion: FEMEN Protests: Nobody Asked This Group to Speak For Oppressed Muslim Women [View all]Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)No wonder we have a problem of communicating.
FYI, since I deleted the OP, my point was that I objected to the title of the your second link (but I was a bit "in my cups" and in the morning and felt I hadn't expressed my point well - so I self deleted):
"If women have to get their tits out to make a point, so be it."
My response was: "I think it is ridiculous that WESTERN women have to get their tits out to make a point... that they have to show their tits to be taken seriously."
I was criticizing those liberal men who only seem to take feminists seriously when they bare their breasts. I was referring to the notion that women "have to get their tits out" not the actual baring of such. That for some western liberal men, after all that women have accomplished to date believe it is tits that advance feminism rather than our words and actions.
It is like this:
What Amina did was brave and extra-ordinarily given the confines the country she lives in.
Western feminist women, after decades of intellectual thought, communication, and activism... of working alongside men and proving that they are strong, intelligent, pragmatic, and capable... at this point in time, shouldn't have to bare their breasts to be taken seriously.
For what it is worth, I love activism theater and I have been arrested for such.