The radical Ukrainian protest group – FEMEN has been causing a stir around Europe for a while now. After spectacularly bashing the likes of Putin, Berlusconi and Dominique Strauss Khan, protesting outside the Vatican and launching off-shots in the US, has the movement gone global? The ladies say next target is Iran
Founded in Kiev in 2008, Femen captured the international media attention after staging a series of spectacular topless protests against women discrimination, the widespread practice of sex tourism and the sexist nature of Ukrainian politics.
Since the 2004 Orange revolution that effectively drew the country from authoritarianism, Ukraine has been going through pretty much the usual post-communist scenario of a fragile transitional-democracy, burdened with corruption and stagnant economy. Under President Viktor Yanukovych, the state has taken a more conservative course which many have viewed as a path back to authoritarian rule.
In such a climate, Femen’s agenda quickly moved from strictly sexist issues to other local concerns such as the tax code, freedom of speech and government spendings, before going international and staging protests against foreign political leaders by the likes of Putin and Berlusconi.
Last week, they visited the Vatican. This young activist takes Madonna’s Like a Prayer to a completely different level:
In sharp contrast to gender neutral-looking feminists of the old school, a typical Femen activist looks like the ultimate “Eastern European prostitute” fantasy: forever twenty-one, with a face of an angel and a body of a supermodel,
the kind of woman Western men imagine paying for a lapdance in a five-star hotel while listening to her
whisper in soft ‘Russian’ accent. Is this what makes FEMEN truly radical?
Yes, beauty is a weapon. But in this case, many have asked: does it work?
Doc, you are very calmly academic and gentlemanly unconcerned in your view of the touchy matter.
I wish you could be more realistic in these real problems.
In reality, my main concern is:
As a police officer, where and how to get hold of these nude people.
There are nothing to grab in order to arrest them.
In the ensuing struggle, if you happened to touch a wrong (or right) place,
you could get sued for "Indescent Contact, Caress, and Embrace" (ICCE ??).
Please look at the last picture where the police is holding the feet of an exposed girl.
Maybe, he thought the feet was only safe place (farthest from the sensitive spot) to get hold of.
Then, after that, how can he arrest her without further contact, caress, and embrace??
Anyway, these girls are "not too shabby" looking, actually pretty attractive
depending on your taste about the female anatomy.
PS: Some decent or artistic nude pictures are welcome and allowed in our website.
You don't have to come in under the cover of psychiatric exhibitionism or schizophrenia.
Well, ha, ha, please don't take me too serious, it's just my 2 cents.