Women Bare All in Australian Anti-War Protest

Yahoo News ^ | Sat Feb 8, 2:52 AM ET | Editorial Staff

[laurav]

Well... out of ideas and this draws media coverage. I think on one level these protests are mocking the fact that the media likes to showcase naked women anyway- and this way they're at least getting a message out at the same time. 700 women holding signs is boring. 700 naked women... now that has more newsworthy potential.

If someone has any background on how these protests got started, I'd like to read about it. I posted on another thread that it had its roots in a "shaming" practice in some parts of Africa where women in the village would appear naked in front of men who were misbehaving as a way of showing collective disapproval. So who imported the custom?

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

How about a T-shirt that says something like:

"Strip, if you're anti-war!"

or

"Let's do it for Saddam"

how about

"I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body." (whoops, wrong theme...)

[BeerSwillr]

Now that's a piece protest!

[uncbob]

Why not set themselves on fire

[jetson]

SEEMS FISHY TO ME.

[YOMO]

Let them go to Iraq and act as Shields for the crazies.
What do you think the average Iraqi would do when he sees this group. On second thought send them over there and see if they can generate some strokes.

[RippleFire]

BUMP

[Grampa Dave]

This is another example of evil WMD's, left wing women!

[Grampa Dave]

duckman posted: Is there a blow up of this for further inspection? They may all look like Helen Thomas.

TRIPLE BARF BAG WARNING! IF YOU HAVE A WEAK STOMACH DON'T LOOK AT THE PHOTO OF HELEN THOMAS BELOW:

The above photo was taken just before Thomas joined the Aussie's nude in for piece!

[BradyLS]

They don't seem like a very diverse group. And what's with "NO WAA" ?

[MEGoody]

What a bunch of idiots.

[Redcloak]

"No war"? That's the best they could do?! With 700 naked Sheilas in attendence, you'd think that they could have spelled out "Just say no to burqas and the sexist repression of Muslim women by an abusive and unjust patriarchal society" or words to that effect. Or perhaps I'm just missing the point.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Err...um...they don't wear burkas in secular Iraq, and certainly aren't forced to.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Alot of anti-war women like to take off their clothes. Are they trying to horrify us, or are they trying to get our attention?

How embare-assing.

[null and void]

"Just say no to burqas and the sexist repression of Muslim women by an abusive and unjust patriarchal society" or words to that effect. Or perhaps I'm just missing the point.

Perhaps.

[Sender]

I suppose to the peacenik mind (an oxymoron, I know) the act of stripping naked and playing this full-frontal Scrabble on a hillside is the ultimate expression of sincerity and determination, one before which entire armies and governments will wither and fall.

Wrong. But it is amusing, and yes the aliens have now pencilled in humanity among the lower vertebrates as a result of this mass bush alignment spectacle. Perhaps if we had a bunch of young lovelies forming a lightning bolt and spelling out the words "kick some ass for me", our troops would be encouraged.

[Walkingfeather]

What would be kinda fun would be doing a southern opposition political move an event like this. If you hear anyone doing something like this....a couple nights before the event get a couple bags of sugar and spread it gererously throughout the area. Let's just say it is best if fire ants are in the area.

[reformed_democrat]

If that all it takes to get woman to strip then I'm happy to be pro-war.

You may have come up with the greatest Pick-Up line of the new century:

"Hey Baby! I'm pro-war. Wanna get naked?"

As a friend of mine used to say, "It might only work one time out of 100, but that one time . . . Whoa BABY!"

[Salman]

The Australian protest echoed a similar one in New York where nude women formed the words "No Bush" to demonstrate against U.S. President George Bush's hardline stance against Iraq.

It's summer in Australia, and at least above freezing in Marin County, but in New York...

[stainlessbanner]

Is this a U-2 spy photo or something? I couldn't make out the details....