During my university days, I had a discussion with my gentleman who used to collect Playboy magazines and defended it openly. I asked him why do you keep these? He answered that, Playboy published some quality news analysis and interviews beside the photos. He supported his stand by sharing many important interviews (For example Jimmy Carter's) and articles. Apparently he was right and I agreed with him.
There were room full of men and I asked all of them did anyone buy Playboy for articles? No one answered. Then I asked how about photos? Everyone laughed out loud.
That is the point. In theory, you are right. But in "Real life" this type of protest ( Unless you are from Finland, Sweden, Norway etc where nudity is more accepted by society) are a sad imitation of the west bordering "Stupidity". For eastern communities this is NOT the right way to protest even if they were Hindu women.
How Gandhiji protested was the right way for India. Had he done in Kansas (Midwest, USA), he would have had a hole in his skull long time ago. So you have to be in touch with sensibilities of "Your people".
This "Protest" may look "Revolutionary" to some of us but to majority of the people, it is not only unacceptable but disrespectful (or culture, tradition and Yes religion).
As I said earlier, the protest only proved there are good number of "Shit heads" among educated women. These women are out of touch with common people (They profess to fight for!) and only works for people who are pulling the strings (Most of the time men!) behind our backs.
I cannot imagine Egyptian or Iranian people are respecting women more because of these "Shit heads". Sorry to see we lost capacity to protest in our own way. Sad imitations are just plain SAD......
Shalom!
From: Subimal Chakrabarty <subimal@yahoo.com>
To: mukto-mona <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Mar 10, 2012 11:28 pm
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] FW: Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar to mark Int'l Women's Day
Man loves to see and use nude women in his privacy. He will do that with his power and money. The same man will advocate for complete covering of the body of a woman in public life! He will even severely punish her if she does not cover herself completely. The revolutionary protest is a revolt against such a hypocrisy. Obviously it is symbolic. The message is: hey greedy man, see with your greedy eyes what you want to see. Hopefully this will vehemently shake his conscience. Again this is absolutely symbolic. Protests have been made by those rebel women who have shouldered all the burden of protest and in whom the anger has reached the point to take off all the clothes.
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>>>>>>>>>> It is your God given right to support whomever you like.
For your information Bangladesh is an unique country where women are now in very powerful political position. Where both head of main opposition political party and head of current government are women (They don't get along very well but that's another post!). We have few powerful ministries under women as well.
They had this unique opportunity for over 20 years. Don't think you can objectively blame men of this country (At least they elected them!) to some extent. Don't think other nations can match this record. If those leaders don't make women's issue a priority, one cannot blame men alone. Like other parts of the world criminal men are criminals and I have no intention to take their sides. But majority of men in our country did some of their duties by electing women in this "Muslim majority" country of ours.
With power comes responsibility and it is high time women take at least SOME of the blame of our situation.
I guess printing nude photos (To protest or support stereotype?) only proves there are large number of shit heads among women as well (Used to think there are more shit heads among men than women). I stand corrected.
Thanks for sharing.
Shalom!
From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 6:10 am
Subject: [mukto-mona] FW: Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar to mark Int'l Women's Day
Farida Majid
The calendar is the idea of campaigner Maryam Namazie to support Aliaa Magda Elmahdy and join her 'screams against a society of violence, racism, sexism, sexual harassment and hypocrisy'.
Namazie says: 'What with Islamism and the religious right being obsessed with women's bodies and demanding that we be veiled, bound, and gagged, nudity breaks taboos and is an important form of resistance.'
To: farida_majid@hotmail.com
Subject: Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar to mark Int'l Women's Day
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:08:15 -0500
From: maryamnamazie@gmail.com
On 8 March 2012 International Women's Day the Nude Photo Revolutionaries Calendar is being launched in homage to Egyptian atheist, student and blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy who posted a nude photo of herself, announcing the post on Twitter under the hashtag, #NudePhotoRevolutionary.
The calendar is the idea of campaigner Maryam Namazie to support Aliaa Magda Elmahdy and join her 'screams against a society of violence, racism, sexism, sexual harassment and hypocrisy'.
Namazie says: 'What with Islamism and the religious right being obsessed with women's bodies and demanding that we be veiled, bound, and gagged, nudity breaks taboos and is an important form of resistance.'
The calendar is designed by SlutWalk Co-founder Toronto, Sonya JF Barnett who says: 'I felt that women needed to stand in solidarity with Aliaa. It takes a lot of guts to do what she did, and the backlash is always expected and can quite hurtful. She needed to know that there are others like her, willing to push the envelope to express outrage.'
Others who join the 'scream' include mother and daughter Anne Baker and Poppy Wilson St James, teacher Luisa Batista, We are Atheism Founder Amanda Brown, atheist bloggers Greta Christina and Emily Dietle, FEMEN activist Alena Magelat, photographer Mallorie Nasrallah, actress Cleo Powell, freethinker Nina Sankari , writer Saskia Vogel, and Maja Wolna. The women are photographed by Julian Baker, Adam Brown, Grzegorz Brzezicki, Lucy Fox-Bohan, Agnieszka Hodowana, Ben Hopper, N. Maxwell Lander, Mallorie Nasrallah, Mark Neurdenburg, Vitaliy Pavlenko, and Michael Rosen.
To read the press release, download the calendar, and purchase one, visit: http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie/nude-calendar/
The women in the calendar stand firm in solidarity with Aliaa Magda Elmahdy and the countless women across the world who are denied basic rights, freedoms and dignity.
Join the 'Scream' on Facebook and on Twitter under the hashtag #NudePhotoRevolutionary.
For more information, contact:
Maryam Namazie
BM Box 1919
London WC1N 3XX, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 7719166731
Email: maryamnamazie@gmail.com
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Re: [mukto-mona] FW: Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar to mark Int'l Women's Day
I know you are sincere and I respect your opinion on this issue.
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It may sound odd, but I am actually amazed by the revolutionary idea of protest. Think about some one who refuses to accept food as a protest against the fact that she has been denied food repeatedly before.
Muslim patriarchy is now resorting to overt forms of public violence with a clear objective to PUNISH any kind of revolt against oppression of women. Look what is happening in Bangladesh!
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I do support this aspect of the 'scream' of Muslim women as a protest that comes with an underlying pain and suffering of injustice without an end in sight. Muslim patriarchy is now resorting to overt forms of public violence with a clear objective to PUNISH any kind of revolt against oppression of women. Look what is happening in Bangladesh!
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