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Sextremism: The New Way for Feminism to Be!

Posted: 07/02/2013 23:00

I need to reveal to you all a terrible secret about civilization - a woman is not a human being.

This secret is thousands and thousands of years old. This dogma, the subjugation of women, has been spelled out in all texts that are considered to be sacred to humanity - the Bible, the Torah, the Koran. It is refected in the art and folklore of all peoples and nations. It is even evident in legal systems and legislations. The doctrine of the subjugation of women is shared to some degrees by all countries from the East to the West. Let's remember nasty incidents involved the Swedish furniture chain IKEA trying to please the rich Saudi Wanhabi by photoshopping out women and girls from the Middle East version of its catalogue. This misogynistic and monstrous alliance was formed between a country with one of the highest levels of emancipation and a country where women are still denied the right to vote. This catalogue has became a marketing manifesto for modern patriachy - a system which, whether manipulating women's bodies for full concealment, or for pornography, works solely on the ideological and economic interests of men.

This is the public crime against women's liberation. And it has explanation.

The key to enslavement of women by men - control over her body. These methods of control range from the glamour of the 'beauty industry' to barbaric acts such as genital mutilations and acid deification.

We live in a world of men's economic, cultural and ideological occupation. In this world woman is a slave, she is deprived of the property rights at all, but the main thing - it is deprived of ownership of her own body.

Away from the woman, her body was the target of ugly patriarchal exploitation. Total control over the woman's body is the main tool of her oppression, female sex-step is the key to her freedom. Female nudity which is free from the patriarchal system becomes the symbol of women's liberation. Nudity as a weapon is one of new ways for feminism to transform. We are naked because we are feminists.

Female body is denied, used, sold, abused, considered obscene, dirty, guilty. The body of the woman is always too much. Or not enough. And this idea has infected up to women themselves. The biggest concern of modern feminism is how to take back the female body from the cultural and financial machine of the patriachal system, and return it to its rightful owners - using this body, instead, to protect the interests of women across the world.

Femen is trying to bring to the world a new interpretation of modern feminism, where the naked body becomes an active instrument in confronting institutions of patriachy - such as the church, dictatorship and the sex industry. We have a developed a tactic that we call sextremism. Sextremism is new type of women's activism that is aggressive but still not violent, that is provocative but with clear message. Sextremism not only allows us to raise awareness about some of the more important issues that are facing women today, but also to check each country for level of its liberation. Sextremism is insurgent against patriarchy using women's sexuality for political protests. We use the sexist weapons of patriarchy against itself. Playing with stereotypical codes is a way of breaking the male domination notions about the nature of female sexuality in favor of its great revolutionary mission. Sextremists are a demonstration of intellectual, psychological and physical superiority of women. Superiority to reach equality because women as so poorly treated that they need to get way more to reach finally sex equality.

We have conducted topless protests in countries across the globe, in a democratic country they shake our hands, in a totalitarian state our activists can be beaten, kidnapped or imprisoned. Femen is a performing a real test for democracy all over the world.

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Here on HuffPost we start our notes of sextremist belief to knock in each mind the idea of women's riot that didn't finish in 70th but is continuing and we are going to go till the end.

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I need to reveal to you all a terrible secret about civilization - a woman is not a human being. This secret is thousands and thousands of years old. This dogma, the subjugation of women, has been s...
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03:09 AM on 02/25/2013
why stop with only exposing breast? femen should do it all nude. take it to the next level.
02:42 AM on 02/22/2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
8:40 PM CST

@ "Inna Shevchenko"

Quote :

"We live in a world of men's economic, cultural and ideological occupation. In this world woman is a slave"...

Not getting any points with such broad stroke rhetoric.

You are young.

Quote :

"We are naked because we are feminists."

The only thing "naked' here is your rhetoric, and the grotesque cartoons accompanying this article.
"Sextremists are a demonstration of intellectual, psychological and physical superiority of women. Superiority to reach equality because women as so poorly treated that they need to get way more to reach finally sex equality."

Nope. Been there. Done that.

Tired old argument first attempted by early, spoiled radical elitists from upper-middleclass homes; homebred in Georgetown & New York...(Brown U, et al)... Major fail in common sense and simple logic :

No one is "EQUAL" to anyone; "superiority" is a dead argument. Lame as well.

Quote :

" knock in each mind the idea of women's riot..."

Knock on each mind...

Okaaay...

Not going to happen...

I was right. You are very young.

Your zeal is less offensive than your syntax.

You want to be more influential ?

Calm down and take a few writing courses.

J.B.
12:45 PM on 02/19/2013
The notion of that there has ever been a patriarchy is laughable.

Top of the pyramid: Generations old LANDOWNERS
Rest of the pyramid: Everybody else. (women got the popular vote only a few years after men did, btw).

Definition of Marriage: "the control of the productivity of man by the landowners through the provision of lifelong familial responsibilities".

Simmer on that for a while. It is how society was built.

Then realize, that women moving from comfortable, well taken care of lives, to the workforce, merely relieves a bit of the pressure from men, and provide the landowners a great pool of extra labor.

Folks. Read a book once a while: anthropology, history, economics, psychology. In that order.

Here's a short article to get you all started.

http://www.profam.org/pub/fia/fia.2202.htm
01:08 PM on 02/19/2013
...of course.. the extra labor comes at the expense of the children..

hmmm, i'm seeing a pattern here.
03:35 AM on 02/13/2013
I know!
These commenters really help the reader FEEL the male-domination of our society, don't they? These men don't want to talk about women who are denied their human rights! It's these pesky Huff articles that are the problem! Oh and the rampant misandry, apparently. *rolls eyes* Shove off already, women are trying to keep from losing another 50 million to female infanticide.
02:24 AM on 02/13/2013
So many hurt men.
01:45 PM on 02/11/2013
It's pretty disgusting that huffpo hires a violent criminal vandal who advocates murder
08:05 PM on 02/10/2013
Then there is the fact that men suffer more violent crime than women; that studies show that men are suffering domestic violence in numbers approaching parity with women, but there are virtually no domestic violence shelters exclusively for men and boys. What is more, the DV legislative model, the misandric Duluth model, implies that the man is ALWAYS the aggressor, no matter what the situation. Yes men have it so good: less health care fuding, we retire 5 years later and we make up over 95% of workplace fatalities. I implore men of good sense and conscience (and the women who love them) to turn their backs on this feminism, this hateful, fascistic ideology of gender supremacy. We need a society where men and women are truly equal and treated as human-being who have intrinsic worth regardless of their sex. We need to create a future where our sons and daughters can feel secure in their respective beings and that they have an equal stake in society. The time is now. Love and respect from the newly christened MHRM - the men and human rights movement.
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EC001
03:07 AM on 02/11/2013
F&F. Feminist extremism and misandry have become the societal norm. We need to fight back.
04:49 AM on 02/11/2013
Yes we do. The situation is getting increasingly dire, unfortunately.
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steve sayers
Old enough to know better
05:25 PM on 03/29/2013
It's our own fault mate, we do nothing about the atrocities against women internationally, no pressure release valve of demonstrable progress therefore bang! Whilst mot liking all the language I think I am supportive of the thrust if their argument, get rid f the misogyny and we won't have a prob.
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BarryMayor
01:45 PM on 02/10/2013
I'm amazed at how the fashion and make-up industries are controlled by heterosexual men, and how women are physically forced to buy new fashionable clothes, jewelery, and make-up by heterosexual men. Men physically march their wives down to the mall and make them buy new makeup and the latest trendy clothes and shoes.

It's always men who notice that they are wearing different eye-liner, a different shade of blush and want to know what the name of their new lipstick is. And, whenever they get their hair done, they hate it when men actually notice, since they always do. And, we all know that men hate seeing topless women, especially on the Internet. Keep up the good work.
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02:00 AM on 02/13/2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
8:00 PM CST


@ "BarryMayor"

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"I'm amazed at how the fashion and make-up industries are controlled by heterosexual men, and how women are physically forced to buy new fashionable clothes, jewelery, and make-up by heterosexual men"...

While I do appreciate the iron(ies) of your sarcasm, for historical reference purposes, the "fashion and make-up" industry has long been dominated and held hostage by covertly hostile gay men, not heterosexual men.

Now there's an irony you could write a book about. Nothing else...NOTHING ELSE...could more readily explain the pandemic of anorexia saturating the fashion/vanity industry.

Sorry to dampen your sarcasm a bit, but this subject is rarely or honestly addressed, except by a handful of brave politically incorrect journalists...here today, gone tomorrow.

One of my Aunts was a victim of this insipid, vapid, glitter-box industry back in the 50s.

J.B.
10:36 PM on 02/09/2013
I know I'm not very bright, but I haven't a clue what this woman is on about.
10:30 PM on 02/10/2013
@ "Fat Bernard 88"

Quote :

"I know I'm not very bright, but I haven't a clue what this woman is on about."

She reminds me of my youth...gone...gone...gone...

She needs time. And writing skills.

J.B.
08:38 PM on 02/09/2013
The most pathetic part of Femen is that it can only define itself in relation to men.

Men are not repressing women, women are repressing themselves by claiming victimhood and not owning thier own anger, power and lives.

Stop wingeing about men and get on with your own lives as individuals!
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EC001
03:13 AM on 02/11/2013
Women seeking an ecuse for their problems always vent their frustration of men.
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steve sayers
Old enough to know better
05:27 PM on 03/29/2013
Relatively easy in Western Europe, elsewhere?
08:33 PM on 02/09/2013
Read Shakespeare!
Although I do realise that this requires some intelligence which is asking a bit of some people.
Shakespeare illustrates quite clearly that women are not repressed and in fact have power that is much less honest and open than men at times.
Both men and women can be repressed - repression has is not sexist - it affects all alike.
09:42 AM on 02/10/2013
Repression affects women a great deal more in patriarchal societies throughout the Islamic world and Indian...
10:39 AM on 02/10/2013
If you are going to talk about India it would only be fair to mention that much of the repression of women is by other women in India.

When a woman marries in India, in a traditional Indian household, she moves in with her husband's family and is under the control of her mother-in-law.
What this means is that her happiness or misery is dependent on the psychological statue of her mother-in-law.
So let's not forget that women play as much a part in the repression of other women, and sometime more of a part, as men do.
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steve sayers
Old enough to know better
05:28 PM on 03/29/2013
Have toy been threatened with stoning to death because you got your top off?
08:22 PM on 02/09/2013
Another load of mysandrist waffle from teh Huff...
(with the stress on the word "another")
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DJPotterWriter
04:18 PM on 02/09/2013
What an amazing paranoid rant. And, of course, anything that doesn't fit into this world view (such as MALE genital mutilation) is conveniently ignored.
10:33 PM on 02/10/2013
@ "DJPotterWriter"

Paranoia and Youth are sibling rivals.
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EC001
03:19 AM on 02/11/2013
The issue of male genital mutilation has been ignored far too long. I am glad to see the British taking the lead in abolishing this barbaric custom.
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lukebrambles
01:20 AM on 02/09/2013
"A truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it" Max Planck

Equality is becoming more and more commonplace, albeit slowly. Time is changing attitudes, and I believe these actions to be snowballing more and more, especially with the advent of the internet and greater connectivity. It has shown us that we are essentially the same the world over, and those who have grown up with the connected world know that we are no better or worse than our brothers and sisters across the globe. Time will tell, equality will be had, take heart.
10:37 PM on 02/10/2013
@ "lukebrambles"

Quote :

"Equality is becoming more and more commonplace..."

Really ?

Where ?

Define "equality".

And tell me where.

Quote :

"It has shown us that we are essentially the same the world over..."

Really ?

Depressing thought.

J.B.
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lukebrambles
11:26 PM on 02/10/2013
I'd tell you to cheer up, but you sound like my friends with depression. Look around. Look at scouting - Fully inclusive, and the largest youth organisation in the world. Look around the rest of the world - unjust laws are being challenged in saudi arabia, china and everywhere else. 
 Each successive generation is more understanding, more open to those who are 'different'. It may not feel like it when you're on the receiving end, but it does get better.
 
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EC001
03:22 AM on 02/11/2013
Equality is admirable. Substituting female hegemony for past abuses of women is not.
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lukebrambles
01:05 PM on 02/11/2013
Very true.
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lukebrambles
01:09 AM on 02/09/2013
Not that I am against women disrobing, as naked women definitely have a very discombobulating effect on men, meaning it is a good idea in that way.
On the other hand, think of the safety considerations. Imagine this happening near a motorway- pile-ups would be horrendous! Pilots flying low to get a second glimpse, people dropping things left right and centre. The productivity of the male population would plummet, think of the economy!
In short this is a truly terrible idea.

Tongue firmly in cheek,
Luke.