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In reply to the discussion: Nadya Tolokno of punk-rock band Pussy Riot is missing. [View all]dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Before learning more about the case, the first thing that made me frown was the fact progressives were hailing Pussy Riot as the new feminists, despite that their name is fairly insulting to women. It is certainly not apolitical, since we are in a context in which pornography has deeply colonised our movement and the only groups that the media presents as feminist are those that either insult us or reclaim the very instruments of our subordination, that is, male sexual violence, PIV, pornified femininity and all the associated harmful cultural practices. These tactics of destroying the meaning of feminism form part of a general worldwide backlash against women.
I found it suspicious that Pussy Riot was getting so much media attention, even for pseudo feminist standards. You can measure the degree of feminism of an action by how men react to it, and if men collectively cheer and celebrate it, then you can be pretty sure theres something wrong about it, or that it doesnt somehow support our liberation from men. And as far as I can recall, even the slutwalks didnt get as much coverage or public appraisal. What was it that men liked so much about Pussy Riot?
Well, under closer inspection I discovered that the high level of coverage was related to though indirectly promoting mens right to womens sexual subordination and the pornification of our movement. The arrested women actually form part (and are victims of) a mixed anarchist group called Voina (meaning war), founded in 2007 by two men called Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolaïev, who regularly engage the women in extreme and degrading women-hating pornography as part of their public political stunts. Some of Voinas men have actually already been incarcerated in 2011 for hooliganism which is punished for 7 years of prison in Russia, but their bail was paid for by an artist named Banksy four months after their imprisonment. (More information can be found here and here)
Included in their anti-government actions are a public orgy in the national museum of biology in a room full of stuffed bears, where several men anally penetrated their female partners in a position of submission, including one heavily pregnant women, as a metaphor to bugger/fuck Medvedev. Medved means bear, hence all the stuffed bears this was meant to be symbolic, artistic and revolutionary according to the activists. Here the male anarchists literally used women as dead bodies or receptacles through which to make a political point to other men. Violating women as a means to offend other men is nothing else but an age-old patriarchal mechanism behind which the intended target are us, for men to bond over our annihilation.
http://radfemworldnews.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/pussy-riot-whose-freedom-whose-riot/
Aside from that you'll also find , as I mentioned them too , that Femen is in fact a marketing franchise operated out of the Ukraine.