Posted on 09/28/2007 3:06:25 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Women from a new Polish political party have stripped off in a controversial poster campaign ahead of national elections.
Seven candidates from the Women's Party are featured posing behind a billboard that reads: "The party of women. Poland is a woman."
The attention-grabbing move is making waves in staunchly Catholic Poland, where the ruling Kaczynski twins have pushed a fiercely conservative agenda.
Writer Manuela Gretkowska said she founded the party as the Polish government considered tightening already strict controls on abortion.
"It is the straw that broke the camel's back," she said, adding that Poland's political scene was usually run by men for men.
"This poster is intended to shatter stereotypes in the anachronistic world of politics, which is more often dominated by uncommunicative men with their black tie outfits," she said.
"We are beautiful, nude, proud. We are true and sincere, body and soul. This is not pornography, there is nothing to see in terms of sex, our faces are intelligent, concerned, proud.
"We do not have our mouths open nor our eyes closed," she said.
So far, polls show the party will fail to cross the five per cent voting threshold required to enter parliament on the October 21 election.
But support is growing, and Ms Gretkowska hopes that the backing of some of Poland's most famous women could help push it over the line and into parliament.
If that happened, the Women's Party could become a key coalition partner after elections that none of the major parties looks like winning outright.
Its backing for equal pay for men and women as well as public funding for contraception would mark a major shift in Poland, where priests, not sexual-health practitioners usually set the political agenda.
But the mainstream parties, including the Law and Justice party of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, are waking up to the power that the women's vote could have in the October poll.
Mr Kaczynski has appointed the wife of an opposition politician to advise him on "women's affairs".
NEWS FLASH!!
Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Janet Reno, Donna Shalala, Helen Thomas, Susan Estrich, Janeane Garafalo, and Rosie O’Donnell are releasing a poster and ad campaign that will be unique in the annals of US history.
These 8 brilliant and beauuuutiful ladies have posed nude together for an ad poster celebrating “Women of the Left”
The poster is expected to be a huge hit in college dorm rooms, with both male and female students.
THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
>> This poster is intended to shatter stereotypes in the anachronistic world of politics
Really? You don’t say.
I tend to stereotype politicians as stupid egotistical attention-whores; this stunt doesn’t shatter that stereotype, it REINFORCES it!
That one in the back on the left: Rosie O’Donnell’s Polish cousin?
Which gives you the worst problem...dyslexia or loss of your sense of humor?
(I love the Poles, even ugly ones with their clothes on.)
The five standing look like really angry lesbians.
How on earth do you correlate that statement with this thread ? These are beautiful Polish girls protesting being held back back by stuffed-shirted hold-overs from the communist era. Poles are currently a breath of fresh air on the European continent. (All news out of Poland is so positive these days that I am becoming more Polophile every day!)
Believe me, Poland has much better than that, and they aren’t feminazi bitches like the ones in this picture.
I had to double check to make sure this wasn’t in response to post #7.
What?!? Held back from being able to murder unborn babies? That is what this so-called "party of women" is all about.
Well hell, isn't that cute.
Not too badski!
And I don't know *why* that photo reminds me of Randi Rhodes...
Cheers!
Judging by the high-res version in comment #42, there was a lot of air-brushing done to smooth out those lovely expanses of skin.
And I don't buy that they're feminists. Not one of them has hairy legs. And the girl at the right end of the back row either waxes, or shaves, or something... for a dark-haired female, she sure is devoid of furriness where I'd normally expect it. Doesn't sound very "feminist" to me -- they tend to go for the hairy armpit look.
Are you offering to remedy the situation? Might take a while...
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