If women have to get their tits out to make a point, so be it.

[stevenleser]

95. I support Femen. As I said before in a post in the Feminists group...

... this kind of protest is shockingly effective in a number of ways.

1. It always seems to get maximum press exposure.

2. If/when authorities arrest the women, the optics for the authorities are bad. Arresting or being physical with a topless woman always carries the visual connotation of arresting someone who is in a vulnerable state. It has a brutal appearance.

3. The act of being topless or naked, enhances any extreme actions taken by the women and shows you how serious they are about any cause. Its not unlike setting ones self on fire, or chaining ones self to a building or tree or something like that. Obviously there are different degrees, self immolation is a much more severe statement, but it tells the world, I'm willing to sacrifice and do something that is shocking and potentially damaging to me because I am just that serious about what I am doing or saying.

And like any protest, no matter how crazy or shocking or how much you disagree, some of the measurement has to be how effective it is in getting the message out. I think that speaks for itself here.