FEMEN are in Paris, demonstrating for Muslim women around the world to demand sexual freedom and equal rights.
Allah made me naked from FemenFrance on Vimeo.
The demonstration, themed "Allah created me naked" includes slogans such as "Muslim women let's get naked", "Nudity is freedom", "I am a woman, not an object", "Naked war" and "Naked truth". (They also hold signs in Ukrainian, French and Arabic.)
While their hearts are all in the right place, the show of solidarity also reminds me of this cartoon:
The question being whether sexual freedom depends on sexual display. I'm sure the women of FEMEN would agree that the choice of dress or undress is every person's individual choice — as long as they are not being coerced or brainwashed.
On the other hand, women from more oppressive religious Muslim societies who choose the route of nude expression, such as Golshifteh Farahani or Aliaa Magda Elmahdy (who is name-checked in body paint), face disapproval, banishment, and even physical harm.
What do you think of this message and tactic?
You can see and read more about the demonstration (in Ukranian) at FEMEN's Livejournal.
I tried to find even a single pretty woman among these naked once and did not find any. No wonder they get naked they are dame ugly. Evident they did not strip their panties wakkk
ReplyDeletedisgusting ..
vaya gilipollas machista!!!!! Así va el mundo con gente como tu. Imbecil! you must be damn ugly inside and outside. Our world is the world it is thanks to people like you. You make comments like this because your self-esteem must be very low.
DeleteThis is exactly why feminism will never be seen as a legitimate movement.
ReplyDeleteCan you explain your reasoning?
Deleteallaho akber!im a muslim woman and dont wish to be naked!!this is my choise of living !nudity is not freedom is pornnnnnnnnnnn!
ReplyDeletesodom and gomorrah is back!!!this what u call freedom?those are people without religion and no God!muslim woman are humble not prostitutes!
ReplyDeleteSilly girls...
ReplyDeleteI think its great! Islamic men are in fear and so are some of the women that don't get this. Womens bodies are powerful, and that's what Islamic men are afraid of is losing the control, even though they demonstrate no control. being humble does not mean you are a door mat and allow your husband or lover to sleep with others, while they shame their wives and tear away at their self esteem. these women are brave, they are not worried about being beautiful. they are grateful, and cherish who they are as women with NO SHAME. Women desires need to be respected by men too. And if women don't support or Honor themselves in spirit and truth then life, love, creativity all becomes a prison. Thank Allah, for their courage Islam women that live in a mans shadow, this is not a healthy existence to pass down to another generation. Stand up, have courage, Believe that we are created in Gods image too. Being a companion does not allow husbands to practice adultery outside of spiritual principles. Even Allah is a jealous God, and we are created in his image. Wake up! Way to go girls!!!!
ReplyDeletethat freedom does not make the body naked .. because it makes them look disgusting.. because they are no different from animals.
ReplyDeleteand if they want to be like an animal, I would suggest for them to bare every day in performing their activities .. to make it look more dramatic to realize their ideals, and eventually most people will think "they really are crazy"
behave like an animal
If they went all the way like nudists it would have made sense. But when these Femen-activists take of as much as I´ve ever seen them take off it´s bikinis and just bare breasts. I they claim that "nudity" "IS FREEDOM" then do they think sex-slaves are free just because they can undress in front of strange men?
ReplyDeleteSHAME ON FEMEN FOR IGNORING ALL THE MILLIONS OF WOMEN LOCKED UP IN BROTHELS, FORCED TO BECOME DRUG ADDICTS, FORCED TO HAVE SEX WITH ALL MEN WHO WANTS TO USE THEM; FORCED TO DO PORNOGRAPHIC MOVIES -I BET THEY WOULD NOT AGREE THAT STRIPPING DOWN FOR EVERYONE IS FREEDOM!
I am not a muslim, but a woman, a soul in my essence -NOT A PHYSICAL, MORTAL BODY. Furthermore my body is MY BODY -VISUALLY ASWELL. That means I HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE WHO GETS TO SEE WHAT OF IT AND WHEN. I will never broadcast it on the internet. That is giving acsess to it for EVERYONE. If you don´t care for visual integrity then I guess this doesen´t matter for you. But my body is EXCLUSIVE TO ME.
And regarding muslim women -they will OFFCOURSE not be anymore free no matter how much they would be allowed to strip! That´s NOT ANY HELP out of opression! When muslim womens clothes are used to opress them I ASSURE YOU THERE ARE MUCH WORSE FORMS OF OPRESSION IN THEIR LIVES. Please focus on the worse problems and do not make it so easy for yourselves. Because NOTHING will be better for opressed women just because they show off their hair. On the contrary actually. In countries where the veil was forbidden opressed young muslim women who took it off got MUCH MORE restrictions from their families on going out. It only made their families opress them MORE, but nobody cared about that as long as they didn´t have to see it it. So much for really caring about them!
Not all muslim women are forced to cover up eather. There are loads of young muslim women who has started to veil although their mothers and sisters don´t and their fathers never said they had to. Many like to show their muslim identity to show others that muslims can be very nice people and kind of clean up the bad reputation their religion has gotten. So understand many cover up voluntarely to show that they are muslim.