Amina a Tunisian Woman Protested about Anti-Women policies and Anti-Women acts in Tunisia.

[BainsBane]

193. okay, so your complaint

is that within the context of a discussion of a women's conference, I noted they said "women talk too much," which they did. But apparently the only women who talk too much are feminists, so my statement is false. Whereas you attribute a single set of beliefs and customs to 1/3 of the world's population because of the propaganda you've been fed about Islam to justify war? Really? And then you go on to agree that feminists talk too much, specifically the ones on this site, who aren't doing what you think our their proper role in life, to walk around with three word slogans painted on their bare breasts.

Does the irony of that sink it at any point? Your conception of what feminism is revolves around saying nothing, doing nothing but parading topless with three word slogans on our chests, and following through on nothing. In other words, make a big show and do nothing to disrupt patriarchy. Don't demand EEOC laws be enforced. Don't work for changes in prosecution of rape and domestic violence. Don't work to see women have better access to education. For you, the only legitimate feminism is one that appeals to the male gaze. Never mind that my middle-aged breasts would hardly satisfy the gaze of patriarchal media and audience voyeurs so enamored of FEMEN. By FEMEN's own words, I am too old to be a feminist. They might even think I dress like a man, as their leader has described older, evidently false, feminists. FEMEN explicitly defines older women as outside of their movement, as false and "talking too much."

FEMEN should be free to stage any protest they want, just as Tunisian, Turkish, Egyptian, Algerian, and American women are free to tell them what they think about it. But when you as a man claim to sit in judgment of what legitimate feminist activism is, that pisses me off.

Betty Ellen's comment here I think sums up best what this infatuation with FEMEN is about: " I think they are popular in a way because they are not demanding anything really that anyone can act on, so people can feel all radical but not hurt their heads by putting anything into context or see the shades of gray, or god forbid- push for real solutions."

Edit: Also so fair minded of you to denounce the clear untruths in the OP about Amina being thrown in a psych ward, but then that might interfere with your narrative of the evils of Islam, so don't bother criticizing that one. Keep it simple: boobies good, Islam bad. Hey, you've got your own ready made "feminist" ideology there. The hell with Simone de Beauvoir when everything can be said in four words.