Is This The Way To Protest?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-new-suffragettes-witness-the-barechested-defiance-of-femen-8634988.html

[jno]

is it working? Has it attracted the attention of elderly men?

[Bazile]

It might work , if they had bigger placards

[Kevink]

This just seems like an extension of what I call "St Trinians Syndrome".
Announce you're having a fancy dress party, and all the women are instantly getting their kit off - 60% will turn up in micro-gym-slips, stockings and suspenders, and 40% will turn up dressed as tarts.

New version: announce you're protesting something, and before you've even explained what it is, half of 'em have already got their kit off.

Men are natural voyeurs and women are natural exhibitionists.

[Kevink]

I'm under my desk now, and not coming out for a coupla days.

[jno]

good man, I'll let you know if any femen are going past the window.

[andy-hughes]

i don't think there is 'the way' to protest - just various ways, of which this is one.

I can see that it will grab media attention - but maybe for the wrong reasons.

An attractive woman bearing her breasts at a camera as a protest against sexism does have something of a mixed message - maybe the placards on their own would be more likely to be read and considered.

[sp1814]

A few years ago, Italian firemen protested something by stripping off on the streets of (I think) Milan.

It drew all the wrong kind of attention.

I am still unaware of what they were protesting.

(The 'wrong kind of attention' was basically me and my mates).

[sp1814]

Just looked it up.

They were protesting salary cuts.

Who'd have thought...

[Octavius]

Oh god oh god, just give them what they want - anything to make them put their tops back o_

...hang on a minute....

As protests go, its one of my favourites. Where are the other hundred women with saggy boobs and muffin tops? Have they been airbrushed out?

[anotheoldgit]

triggerhippy

I don't know about the topless protest but a good thing would have been to put a gag in her mouth, wow what a 'gob'.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// They were protesting salary cuts. ///

Good job they were Italian firemen had they come from some part of the Middle East, it might have seemed 'one cut too many'.

[Octavius]

I don't know AOG, in a lot of the middle east, you'd struggle to get half cut these days.

[jno]

try shoplifting in Riyadh, Octavius

[ToraToraTora]

yes

[FredPuli43]

It beats getting yourself force-fed or being killed by a horse

[emmie]

or anywhere in the Middle East, and heaven help you if you have homosexual tendencies, no wonder many want to leave.

[Octavius]

I did 2.5 years in Saudi jno.

Never tried lifting shops though.

[whiskeryron]

Have you noticed the one on the left is that bitch Tracy out of Coronation Street ?.

WR.

[Bazile]

lets hope for their sake that someone did not swap the pens/ highlighters for ones with indelible ink