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Vladimir Putin topless protest: Femen activist speaks out (He said he "liked it")
The Daily Telegraph ^ | 4/9/13 | Jeevan Vasagar

Posted on 04/09/2013 4:06:44 AM PDT by markomalley

Vladimir Putin may have "liked" the topless feminist protester who confronted him with an obscene slogan daubed on her back – but she is less than impressed with his response.

Alexandra Shevchenko, who stripped to the waist in front of the Russian president as he toured a trade fair in Hanover alongside German chancellor Angela Merkel, told The Daily Telegraph that he was "really stupid".

Mr Putin claimed to have been entertained by the demonstration, telling a press conference afterwards: "As for the protest, I liked it."

Speaking in Berlin today, Ms Shevchenko, 24, said: "Putin is a bastard. If you're a normal person you have to be against him. The most important [criticism] for us is human rights, the rights of women, this situation with Pussy Riot. Of course we don't want to say this is all he's done – he has committed a lot of other crimes.

"I think his answer was really stupid. It was really in this Russian, post-USSR style. The president of a European country would never say something like – I like her, in such a sexual way. He does it because he's a stupid man."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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For all Putin's faults, I've got to give credit where credit is due.
1 posted on 04/09/2013 4:06:44 AM PDT by markomalley
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2 posted on 04/09/2013 4:07:51 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: JoeProBono

Joe.....You can almost hear him mocking her...


3 posted on 04/09/2013 4:12:55 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: markomalley

Did he say she was good looking? If so, he must apologize immediately!


4 posted on 04/09/2013 4:14:35 AM PDT by Third Person (Welcome to Gaymerica.)
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To: markomalley

ROFL at the woman


5 posted on 04/09/2013 4:15:53 AM PDT by 4rcane
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To: markomalley

One thing he’s not is stupid. He does it because he knows he can get away with it.


6 posted on 04/09/2013 4:22:41 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: markomalley
He does it because he's a stupid man.

what a tool. I'm no fan of Putin but this dope sounds like a whiny school girl. She got her 15 minutes and all she could come up with is; "well, he's a big stoopid doo-doo head"

7 posted on 04/09/2013 4:30:43 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: driftdiver

“When a woman’s nudity is not controlled by men, when she’s not using it to entertain men, or to give them sexual satisfaction or advertise men’s products – when she’s using her sexuality for her own aims, political aims – that really makes patriarchy irritated. And you can see the result.”

First, I don’t know what motivates all this resentment and continued charges of sexism. Second, even if she has legitimate complaints and issues, her approach sounds a little bit like “If you don’t stop I’m going to keep slapping myself.”.


8 posted on 04/09/2013 4:31:53 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: markomalley

From the article:

“When a woman’s nudity is not controlled by men, when she’s not using it to entertain men, or to give them sexual satisfaction or advertise men’s products – when she’s using her sexuality for her own aims, political aims – that really makes patriarchy irritated. And you can see the result.”

This is where the protestor makes her biggest mistake.

Men are men. When a (reasonably attractive) woman is naked, it is entertaining to men, whether she intends it to be or not. We don’t really care why she’s naked or what she’s saying by it. Our response (whether we’ll admit it openly or not) always boils down to something like “Nice hooters”

So Putin will never remember who was protesting or what they were protesting about, but he will remember if she was a c or d cup. Not because he’s a bastard or stupid, just because he’s a man.

Feminists’ main problem is that they do not understand, or will refuse to admit, that men are different from women.


9 posted on 04/09/2013 4:35:08 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: markomalley
German chancellor Angela Merkel, told The Daily Telegraph that he was "really stupid".

Of course, Merkel said no such thing, and the article does not say that Merkel said such a thing. Yet the words are there.

I maintain that journalists string words together in such a fashion so as to subliminally influence people and persuade them that a man like Putin is opposed by powerful people, not just naked protesters.

10 posted on 04/09/2013 4:45:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: markomalley

Putin isn’t so stupid. Look at what feminism has gotten us.

Abortion, Obama, Pelosi.

Women in combat,a huge divorce rate, gun grabbers need I mention Feinstein, Boxer, Waters, Lee, Hillary, and Chelsea, Rachel Maddow Whoopi Gildberg, Rosie O’Moose,the list is long and vomitous.

Putin may be the smartest man on earth.


11 posted on 04/09/2013 4:52:25 AM PDT by Venturer
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The protestor is wrong about Putin and Pussy Riot. Putin said the girls should be treated with some leniency, although they had to be punished for trespassing on the private property of the Orthodox Church and disturbing the peace. But, the sentence (which did seem overly harsh) was handed down by an independent judiciary. Putin’s handling of this protest - dismissing it with humor - was absolutely fine. I liked the way he said going topless was appropriate for a nude beach.


12 posted on 04/09/2013 4:54:22 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: JoeProBono

Putin may be a bastard....but then again Obama could
very well be one also. He don’t look like his putative
father. But one thing is for sure....Putin is nobody’s
fool....unlike Obama. Obama is merely a narcissist too
stupid too even realize he’s a puppet for other peoples
agenda.


13 posted on 04/09/2013 4:55:20 AM PDT by nvscanman
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To: markomalley

Cardinal Biggles! POKE HIM! WITH THE SOFT CUSHIONS!!!!


14 posted on 04/09/2013 4:56:26 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: John O; NFHale; sickoflibs
post 9 just for you haledude...

Men are men. When a (reasonably attractive) woman is naked, it is entertaining to men, whether she intends it to be or not. We don’t really care why she’s naked or what she’s saying by it. Our response (whether we’ll admit it openly or not) always boils down to something like “Nice hooters”

so, so true, and bwahahhahah to the dippy chick that thinks that by going topless that she 'makes a statement' ...

15 posted on 04/09/2013 4:56:44 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: Gilbo_3; John O; NFHale

Don’t give the Dem wimmin in congress any bad ideas:

Like Boxer, Mikulski, Feinstien, Pelosi, and old Debbie What-up Schultz our favorite.

That would be painful.


16 posted on 04/09/2013 5:03:52 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: markomalley

I don’t know about this woman (and by extension her groups) methods, but reading the article it sounds like this is a feminist group that is actually standing up for women’s rights. It mentions in the article that they protest the treatment of women in Muslim countries by a protest in Paris at a Mosque and other abuses of women around the world including Russia.

We have to remember, not all feminist groups are like ours in America. Where they are in bed with the left and have one thing on their mind, abortion. This group may actually be trying to do some good by standing up for women’s rights in countries where women are truly second class citizens, not much above slaves.


17 posted on 04/09/2013 5:07:32 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden (t)
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To: Gilbo_3

I saw one naked protest where the topless babes (college chicks, so generally worth a look) held up signs,

“STOP STARING AND JOIN US!!”DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDSE3333W

(My cat just walked across the keyboard, LOL)


18 posted on 04/09/2013 5:08:44 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Gilbo_3

Women are deswirable to men. If they are attractive doubly so. What other reason would a reasonably attractive woman take off her clothes and parade before men? The only statement she and her fellow travellers are making is, “I’m hot, see.”


19 posted on 04/09/2013 5:09:19 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Better the devil we can destroy than the Judas we must tolerate.)
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To: markomalley

Vladimir Putin doesn’t have gay pride marches in his army...

Those NGOs leftists snivel about were front groups for foreign corruption of the Russian elections. (Just like here at home!)

The European leftists and the US State Dept. tried to steal the Russian election for their comrades in the Communist party and failed.

Putin beat them.

Leon Puñettas was so occupied with gay pride celebrations at the Pentagon, he forgot there was a war, a US Ambassador was murdered and US Navy Seals were completely abandoned to their deaths because everyone was being so fücking gay...


20 posted on 04/09/2013 5:09:33 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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