Liberal feminism is a fucking disease, lol. Just a hint for anyone confused, if you can be pushed out of a feminist movement because you're getting too close to 40 and the young girls who populate it can't be expected to look up to an aging woman, it's not feminist. You shouldn't be able to "age out" of a progressive movement. You shouldn't have to worry you're not hot enough to be an activist.

Emma Watson or any other young starlet prancing into a room wearing a slinky black dress and six-inch heels to say "real men support equal rights" is not feminism. Taking off your shirt and shaking your boobs in some guy's face will not win you abortion rights. A synchronized twerk-off outside of the capital has never resulted in fair wages for female employees.

Men do not respect women. Men do not take women seriously. No amount of nudity or sexual services is ever going to get a man to hand you your rights on a silver platter. We have to take them by force or by DENYING men things they want like our nudity or sexual services. The sooner women accept that, the sooner we'll move on. Until then, we're not going to progress.

Femen is originally Ukrainian and their methods were decided on by the original Ukrainian founders... Now don't get me wrong, I know topless protests don't really achieve anything in the west, but if you listen to the original founder explain why they decided on topless protest, it makes a lot more sense. So they originally did normal protests in Ukraine on the streets against things like the sex trafficking of Ukrainian women, but since Ukrainians aren't big on feminism or women's rights issues, as you can imagine they weren't getting a lot attention from people. The whole topless protest thing came about because the founders knew it was the only way for people to take notice of them. If their goal was international media attention, it definitely worked.

Also, Femen are hardly libfem. I would actually consider them more radfem leaning. They oppose the sex industry and spoke out against misogyny in Islamic countries. They protest outside brothels and against the sex trafficking of Eastern European women. Some Femen supporters in Islamic countries actually got arrested for nude protests. Some members got detained and interrogated by police in Belarus for protesting against the government. They've done some pretty crazy things.

I don't think there's anything wrong with topless protest if it serves a purpose, like protesting against breastfeeding stigma or against the "covering up" of women in patriarchal countries. Thinking that all topless protests are "liberal feminism" to me just feeds into the idea that women's bodies are inherently sexual and should never be shown in public. There is nothing scandalous (or at least there shouldn't be) about a topless woman. These protests only work because people, especially in non-western countries, get so worked up over female nudity.

Stolen from twitter, the latest event she refers to is probably this.

Femen aren't libfems. Femen are radfems. They've done very powerful protests and they're much better organised than many feminists outside of France and Ukraine. They're holding more vigils against femicide than I've ever seen in any other country and they're doing a lot of efficient and straightforward feminist activism. They don't rub their boobs in mens faces to get them off. It's shameful to think that that is the only function of the female body. They use their vulnerable, living bodies - which are worthy of respect and protection - to highlight the extreme perversity of a society that exploits, rapes and kills those bodies, and simultaneously wants to censor them and punish them for existing. Femen are so dangerous to men that several Femen activists were exiled from the Ukraine. It's easy to hate and ridicule women for showing their heavily stigmatised bodies in a world that venerates and worships male bodies. I just think that's beneath us. 🤷‍♀️

Lmaoooo this is so true.

Also fun fact: more French women identify as feminists than American women do. France banned prostitution as well. I don't think we should be pointing fingers at the French when half of American women voted for Trump and most American feminists support the sex industry and gender ideology. Maybe it's not the French that are the problem...

It's not just French feminists, libfems in general think they need to take their clothes off to protest.

Yeah…. why do they do that?

And linsin had this amazing find about Femen, it’s run and controlled by a man!!!

https://www.feministcurrent.com/2013/09/04/femen-was-founded-and-is-controlled-by-a-man-exactly-zero-people-are-surprised/

Disparaging women who subvert the sexualization of our bodies by using them as a tool of protest.

Even better, disparaging women who are both protesting the sexualization of our breasts AND a war threatening millions of people ?

This post is utterly disgusting. Wtf is this doing on a feminist space ??

I'm also really disappointed by some of the responses who say that these women should "cover up" to be taken seriously or whatever. Europe isn't the USA, guys.

Hilarious!!