Shirtless Women in Fight Against Iranian Theocracy

FOREIGN POLICY
By Naheed Mustafa

The other day, I was sitting around thinking about all the women who are trying to bring real change to the world. Why? Lift your blouse, Aung San Suu Kyi! Welcome to Freedom! What's that? You want to stop a civil war, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee? Forget working with the trauma-afflicted and building networks and doing the scary work of looking rapists in the face and shouting "enough!" Show us your boobies! And come on, Shirin Ebadi. Do we even have to talk about this? Confronting the Iranian theocracy with your brain? We know the other b-word that would be so much more effective! Femen -- a Ukrainian group that "empowers" women through breast-focused action (Femen/feminist -- get it?) -- wants to save Muslim women, and they will do it without their shirts because Muslim women also have breasts and since we can't show ours, they'll show theirs. [link]