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Panty Protest: Kazakhstan Women Outraged by Lace Underwear Ban
NBC ^ | 2/17/14 | Alexander Smith

Posted on 02/17/2014 7:02:42 AM PST by workerbee

Women took to the streets wearing panties on their heads Sunday as they protested new laws banning lace underwear in Kazakhstan.

The legislation - which includes provisions covering the required level of moisture absorbtion in the garments - will come into force this summer in Kazakhstan as well as Russia and Belarus, according to the Moscow Times.

This sparked the so-called "Panties for the President" demonstrations in the Kazakh capital, Almaty, on Sunday.

"It irritates me the most that the authorities want to decide what I should wear," Iryna Davydenko, a bank manager who travels regularly between Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine, told Al Arabiya English. "As if all other issues in the country are solved and the only outstanding issue is ladies' panties."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: irynadavydenko; islamiclaw; kazakhstan; micromanagement; panties; pantiesinawad; russia; sharialaw; ukraine; waronwomen
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"Panties for the President"

Bill Clinton approves this protest tactic.

1 posted on 02/17/2014 7:02:42 AM PST by workerbee
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To: workerbee; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows

Lacy Burqas PING

“Women took to the streets wearing panties on their heads Sunday...”


2 posted on 02/17/2014 7:05:12 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: workerbee
Honey ..
If these are your panties ...

What kind of moisture do you girls GENERATE ?

3 posted on 02/17/2014 7:06:14 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: workerbee
which includes provisions covering the required level of moisture absorbtion in the garments

I guess they don't go much for thongs, then, either...

4 posted on 02/17/2014 7:06:37 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: workerbee

Why is it Slick Willy comes immediately to mind?


5 posted on 02/17/2014 7:07:31 AM PST by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of ObamaÂ’s America)
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To: workerbee

And the Mohammedan police will inspect women’s undergarments? What a bunch of sick evil twits!! Oh, I forgot, they are followers of Mohammed who was an illiterate, murderous, pedophilic thug.


6 posted on 02/17/2014 7:07:52 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: workerbee
Lacy Underall
7 posted on 02/17/2014 7:12:02 AM PST by DManA
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To: workerbee; NYer; zot

Sounds like a campaign that Gov Cuomo, Mayor Wilhelm (aka de Blasio) and Maryland’s Gov O’Malley can adopt for their own ‘nanny state’ diktats to protect the people from making their own choices.


8 posted on 02/17/2014 7:12:13 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: workerbee
Good morning.

I've never seen the Kardashians, but read the title that way, and was initially totally confused.

Kardashian or Kazakhstan, what difference does it make?

I apologize.

5.56mm

9 posted on 02/17/2014 7:17:41 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: workerbee
Lace underwear does not meet a 6 percent threshold for moisture absorption required by the new law, with the synthetic material reportedly reaching only 3 to 3.6 percent. It will come into force on July 1, the Moscow Times reported.

I apologize in advance for panty ignorance. I am not familiar with some of the intricacies of female undergarments (or females in general for that matter). I read this reason but cannot logically deduce even a ridiculous and illogical bases for such a law (religious or otherwise). They mention a moisture content. This does not compute. Moisture content of what? The panties are too dry? Women are suppose to start with wetter panties? I'm not even sure what I am picturing as "lace panties" is what is banned by the law.

I'm sure I am over thinking this, but pictures would be helpful. I'm trying to tie this into a "human rights" perspective. Is this a farcical obfuscation to institute a faction of Islamic sexism? Is that what this is?

10 posted on 02/17/2014 7:17:49 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: knarf

The guy on the right looks like he has already seen them in that underwear.


11 posted on 02/17/2014 7:17:49 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Tenacious 1

Maybe Russian like to diddle themselves at work ?


12 posted on 02/17/2014 7:22:04 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Tenacious 1

Just cool it, you are in way over your head.


13 posted on 02/17/2014 7:22:05 AM PST by Ditter
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To: workerbee

I think this is a soft, prop-up-Hillary piece.

It’s a vague story that links to
a 2012 article about Hildabeast saying Russia
was trying to ‘re-sovietize the region’.

Plus, it’s from NBC.

I wouldn’t give it too much attention or credence.
Just saying.


14 posted on 02/17/2014 7:23:06 AM PST by CaptainPhilFan
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To: Ditter
Just cool it, you are in way over your head.

That is funny.

15 posted on 02/17/2014 7:24:07 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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To: workerbee
The legislation - which includes provisions covering the required level of moisture absorbtion in the garments...

Now that might just give Obama the idea that panties should be regulated and covered under Obamacare just like birth control. It's every woman's right, right!!?? Let's see how many pairs per month would be allowed before a copay? Is there a discount for thongs? This opens up a whole new area to get the women's vote and attack the Republicans for denying women the basic human right to wear panties.

16 posted on 02/17/2014 7:28:47 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: Tenacious 1

:)


17 posted on 02/17/2014 7:29:13 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Tenacious 1

“6 percent of what?” is the crucial question here.

I mean volume, not substance.


18 posted on 02/17/2014 7:32:32 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Tenacious 1

Believe it or not, it’s an issue with wearing some synthetic fibers.


19 posted on 02/17/2014 7:33:09 AM PST by grania
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To: grania
Believe it or not, it’s an issue with wearing some synthetic fibers.

Cotton vs. polyester? Silk Vs. Lycra? Paper Vs. Plastic? Is it legal for their woman to "not where panties at all"? How do they calculate the resulting "absorption rate" of that?

20 posted on 02/17/2014 7:38:09 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (My whimsical litany of satyric prose and avarice pontification of wisdom demonstrates my concinnity.)
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