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.

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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@ "Inna Shevchenko"
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"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.
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"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.
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" 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.
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
hmmm, i'm seeing a pattern here.
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.
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.
In general, women are FAR more likely to be upset/offended by a group of young women going topless and having their pictures taken and posted on the Internet.
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@ "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.
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"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.
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!
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.
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.
(with the stress on the word "another")
Paranoia and Youth are sibling rivals.
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.
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"Equality is becoming more and more commonplace..."
Really ?
Where ?
Define "equality".
And tell me where.
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"It has shown us that we are essentially the same the world over..."
Really ?
Depressing thought.
J.B.
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.
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.