After having to put up with crowds of people who somehow know best than I do what Ukrainian feminism is all about (without ever being in Ukraine, of course), I now see American bloggers and journalists finally begin to ask timidly, “Femen Storms Putin, but is “Femenism” really “Feminism”?”
No, it’s not. And the next time can we please try to listen to what people with actual knowledge of Ukraine and the history of Ukrainian feminism (like, maybe, me) are saying before we rant on the subject?
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I guess the next big thing on FEMEN are posts ranting about how mean this group is and how they used deceit and lies to make us all believe how super revolutionary they are. You know, because that’s still a lot easier than admitting that you were playing make-believe with what you saw.
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In the Clarissa-told-you-so files: The Man Who Made Femen
However, Ms Green reveals that Svyatski is not simply a supporter of Femen but its founder and éminence grise. “It’s his movement and he hand-picked the girls. He hand-picked the prettiest girls because the prettiest girls sell more papers. The prettiest girls get on the front page… that became their image, that became the way they sold the brand,” she says.
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