I spend the good amount of those last two days researching (which is a fancier term for googling) and listening/reading all things feminist, I have came out of it alive and sane (I think...) but one thing I'm sure of is women have a hard time accepting other women's choices and lifestyles, let me explain...
First thing that I should clear is I'm not a feminist nor do I ever claim to be one, I actually prefer not to self-proclaim any labels (I am a hipster like that) the reason why I say this, is because I simply believe in everyone doing whatever the fuck everyone wants to do Thou shalt do whatever the fuck thou pleases, right? I couldn't possibly put it more bluntly than that!
When it comes to feminism of this day and age its not about women anymore, its not about gender equality, its about more than that. tracing back the history of feminism you'll see how women worked and fought for a better quality of life, for a better chance to work and compete with the male dominates, but today's modern feminists already have that handed for them, I mean they know the path is already half way there, women do have better chances and if they're denied those chances they know how to go about getting them.. of course I'm mostly talking about European cultures and western cultures where oppression (although might exists) doesn't really reflect the majority of women as it does in other parts of the world.
So my dilemma is this: why can't these feminists get along better? I mean they're all working towards the same goal, aren't they? liberation and further advancement of women, so what went wrong, ladies?!
there's this group that has been making quite the "breaking news" these days on the online community, there's basically a group of women who protests about different things and demand action, but get this, they do it topless... I mean WHAAAAT?! this is the 21st century and a set of boobs are still considered shocking? get real!
I don't mind what this group is doing, I for once actually have no problem with nudity, we've all seen a naked body once or twice before in our lives, nothing special about it, aye? (back me up here, so I won't feel like the only lonely pervert in the room) and those girls know what the men want to see and they deliver it, I actually have read it in many blogs that the only reason the men were here is to see crazy chicks with nice breasts... I mean, hey, least they're honest about it, huh? FEMEN (which is the name of the group, I just realised that I hadn't mentioned them officially by slogan, I guess a 'group of topless protesters' would've been fast and quick publicity, apparently their marketing dept isn't so smart!) is doing what it's doing and it's getting the attention (although it might be the wrong kind of attention, honestly I don't think it will last, I mean seriously breasts could get boring) but they're doing all of this in the name of feminism, which is like a slap in the face and a kick in the butt for the rest of feminists who actually have to cover up and use something else to get attention... their brains! how hard is it for them to do that when you got these perfectly polished women baring their skin to the world and writing only a few words across their chests to demonstrate their message. So basically what you got here is the war between boobs and brains... and the winner is...? C'mon!
My personal problem with FEMEN isn't the nudity, as I've mentioned before (I'm all in for that, never underestimate the power a pair of breasts can have) its something else, I've read about this group and I've seen them in action (obviously you have to go check them out on Vimeo cause YouTube is so old-fashioned and so prude..yuck!) but this group seems really ignorant about other cultures and religions, you have the leader of the group claiming all religions are bad for women, and you know what, that's her opinion, I'm not even going to argue with it, so you have these western women showing no respect or even tolerance for women's choices in a different part of the world, how inconvenient is that? when they claim that all they're doing is freeing women everywhere... I mean call me stupid but how are you going to free a woman when you don't even know her or understand her situation first? what works for you isn't going to work for someone else.
I am not baffled by the attention this group is getting (notice how I keep saying "group" and not "movement" only because if this turns into that then I'm on a first one-way ticket plane to Mars) people seem to care about the topless women rather than the messages those women are trying to get through, and you know why is that, It's because those women don't even know what their message is, they're just standing there naked with a bunch of words scattered across their bodies and thats' that, what is the point to all of this? I honestly have no idea.
I don't want to be attacking this group (I realise I'm starting to sound like my grandma right now) but if you want to "liberate" and "free" women, try to understand their culture and lifestyles first, Muslim women wear Hijab and Burka for all different reasons, and believe it or not they sometime choose it, because THEY WANT IT not because they're being forced to wear it by some stereotypical/dominate Muslim arab male. stop saying things like "Better naked than a burka" because you're not really doing anything but further adding to the objectification of women that honestly doesn't need much help from you.
To examine my earlier statement: women have a hard time accepting other women's choices and lifestyles... I guess I just proved my own point.
First thing that I should clear is I'm not a feminist nor do I ever claim to be one, I actually prefer not to self-proclaim any labels (I am a hipster like that) the reason why I say this, is because I simply believe in everyone doing whatever the fuck everyone wants to do Thou shalt do whatever the fuck thou pleases, right? I couldn't possibly put it more bluntly than that!
When it comes to feminism of this day and age its not about women anymore, its not about gender equality, its about more than that. tracing back the history of feminism you'll see how women worked and fought for a better quality of life, for a better chance to work and compete with the male dominates, but today's modern feminists already have that handed for them, I mean they know the path is already half way there, women do have better chances and if they're denied those chances they know how to go about getting them.. of course I'm mostly talking about European cultures and western cultures where oppression (although might exists) doesn't really reflect the majority of women as it does in other parts of the world.
So my dilemma is this: why can't these feminists get along better? I mean they're all working towards the same goal, aren't they? liberation and further advancement of women, so what went wrong, ladies?!
there's this group that has been making quite the "breaking news" these days on the online community, there's basically a group of women who protests about different things and demand action, but get this, they do it topless... I mean WHAAAAT?! this is the 21st century and a set of boobs are still considered shocking? get real!
I don't mind what this group is doing, I for once actually have no problem with nudity, we've all seen a naked body once or twice before in our lives, nothing special about it, aye? (back me up here, so I won't feel like the only lonely pervert in the room) and those girls know what the men want to see and they deliver it, I actually have read it in many blogs that the only reason the men were here is to see crazy chicks with nice breasts... I mean, hey, least they're honest about it, huh? FEMEN (which is the name of the group, I just realised that I hadn't mentioned them officially by slogan, I guess a 'group of topless protesters' would've been fast and quick publicity, apparently their marketing dept isn't so smart!) is doing what it's doing and it's getting the attention (although it might be the wrong kind of attention, honestly I don't think it will last, I mean seriously breasts could get boring) but they're doing all of this in the name of feminism, which is like a slap in the face and a kick in the butt for the rest of feminists who actually have to cover up and use something else to get attention... their brains! how hard is it for them to do that when you got these perfectly polished women baring their skin to the world and writing only a few words across their chests to demonstrate their message. So basically what you got here is the war between boobs and brains... and the winner is...? C'mon!
My personal problem with FEMEN isn't the nudity, as I've mentioned before (I'm all in for that, never underestimate the power a pair of breasts can have) its something else, I've read about this group and I've seen them in action (obviously you have to go check them out on Vimeo cause YouTube is so old-fashioned and so prude..yuck!) but this group seems really ignorant about other cultures and religions, you have the leader of the group claiming all religions are bad for women, and you know what, that's her opinion, I'm not even going to argue with it, so you have these western women showing no respect or even tolerance for women's choices in a different part of the world, how inconvenient is that? when they claim that all they're doing is freeing women everywhere... I mean call me stupid but how are you going to free a woman when you don't even know her or understand her situation first? what works for you isn't going to work for someone else.
I am not baffled by the attention this group is getting (notice how I keep saying "group" and not "movement" only because if this turns into that then I'm on a first one-way ticket plane to Mars) people seem to care about the topless women rather than the messages those women are trying to get through, and you know why is that, It's because those women don't even know what their message is, they're just standing there naked with a bunch of words scattered across their bodies and thats' that, what is the point to all of this? I honestly have no idea.
I don't want to be attacking this group (I realise I'm starting to sound like my grandma right now) but if you want to "liberate" and "free" women, try to understand their culture and lifestyles first, Muslim women wear Hijab and Burka for all different reasons, and believe it or not they sometime choose it, because THEY WANT IT not because they're being forced to wear it by some stereotypical/dominate Muslim arab male. stop saying things like "Better naked than a burka" because you're not really doing anything but further adding to the objectification of women that honestly doesn't need much help from you.
To examine my earlier statement: women have a hard time accepting other women's choices and lifestyles... I guess I just proved my own point.
So.. they're trying to prove a point by undressing themselves rather than undressing their minds.. cool cool..
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