FEMEN Get Political, Topless: Sh*t Gets Crazy!
Wonder what Ukraine’s bare-breasted protest crew FEMEN has been up to? Some crazy shit! Here are the latest videos: FEMEN girls fighting off a crowd of gawking, grabby party-members, rallying for Occupy Netherlands and getting tackled outside a church in Russia. NSFW.
Seriously, this is one of the wildest protest reels we’ve seen yet. Watch ‘em dive deep into a flag-baring demonstration to stand up against this particular party’s alleged un-democratic bribery practices. Armed with a prop “parasite fumigator,” the girls chant, tussle, climb the square’s statues and get jeered/leered at by a crowd of mostly young, mostly males. When one of the FEMEN girls is violently dragged off by the police, one of these bros, draped in a flag, totally gropes her (2:51). Classy. The girls have since posted some photos of the back and breast injuries sustained in their arrest.
Next up, a fresh FEMEN Occupy Netherlands solidarity video, with raised fists and ferocious tits against “Fucking Oligarchs!” Does not need my commentary, but yours is welcome:
And, for the gut-wrenching cherry on top of this discomforting sundae: Here is what happened when FEMEN girls protested Russia’s fraudulent elections outside a church in Moscow. You can see them prepping and practicing here. After some topless shouting/soliciting God to take down the “Czar” (Putin, duh), the girls are viciously tackled and straddled by non-uniformed guards. It’s difficult to watch. Watch:
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Editor-in-Chief:
Women taking radical steps in not unheard of. On October 31st, 2009, Code Pink organized a protest rally outside the White House to coincide with President and Mrs. Obama's official Halloween party. As many of the guests were family members of military members, the Code Pink press release encouraged attendees to dress as "zombie soldiers". On August 13th, 2011, organizers held their first Slut Walk. As noted in the Washington Post, "In a feminist movement that is often fighting simply to hold ground, Slut Walks stand out as a reminder of feminism’s more grass-roots past and point to what the future could look like." The women of FEMEN are known for their scandalous tactics, much like the women of Code Pink and the organizers of Slut Walks, but they are the new face of feminism, women who are not afraid to speak their minds or show their bodies. They are women who are willing to break all the rules, all the social convention commonly adhered to in their societies and fight for what they believe is a just cause.