Working mom on maternity leave with (soon) four small(ish) kids in Berlin. Lots of typos.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Femen Femen - Everywhere
There's a pretty good article in this week's Economist about the feminist boob-revealing protest movement Femen. It puts the protest movement into feminist context, and is pretty a-moralistic about it, and gets what it's about. But it also rightly states that boobies boobies everywhere stops being shocking or newsworthy at some point. Did you know that Angela Merkel and Vladmir Putim were femened early April in Hannover (I did, but only because I was following Merkel press that day due to a work event), or that the Barbie house opening was femened in Berlin (I didn't, and shhh about the Barbie house for a household with a 5 and 6 year old girl). What do I think about femen? All for it, if the protest is for a good purpose. I don't find breasts shocking, but I come from Finland where we jump around nude from saunas into lakes... Would I do it? Perhaps, if there would be a cause I strongly believe in - and perhaps would see no other effective way of having my voice heard (or text read...). Not going to happen, but it's an interesting thought process to go through. Would you?
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