Polish women strip off in bid to woo voters (Yes, there are pics!)

Telegraph.co ^ | 09/26/2007 | Harry de Quetteville

[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".

[colorado tanker]

Think they hired ringers, professional models?

[grey_whiskers]

Are you offering to remedy the situation? Might take a while...

Not with a ten foot "pole"!

Take that pun any way you want...

Cheers!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Well, it also says that they will “nik do ukranes ....”

(WhyisatexasgirlvisitingPolandnextfall?)

[dayglored]

> Think they hired ringers, professional models?

Nah, I'm willing to believe those are the women themselves.

But they did hire a couple of damn good air-brush artists, and kept them busy. They all look like they have 18-yr old skin, and I don't believe that for a minute.

[MeekOneGOP]

Not a bump! :^D

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks....nice .....

Ping to others on the strange Star thread....

[fieldmarshaldj]

The only relatively hot one is the one on the bottom left, the rest are angry-looking no-lip hags.

[darkangel82]

the rest are angry-looking no-lip hags.

Yuck.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Definitely not Pole smokers, more like clam connoisseurs.

Some of ‘em gave me major-league shrinkage. *shudders*

[R. Scott]

It’s a refreshing change from the typical campaign poster.

[jmaroneps37]

Children in adult bodies do strange things.

[Slings and Arrows]

Not a bump! :^D

Several bumps, to judge by the picture.

[NicknamedBob]

Well, it also says that they will “nik do ukranes ....”

Klaatu barada nik do?

[mikrofon]

I think it means-

“I can be hit.”

[Blue Highway]

The only relatively hot one is the one on the bottom left, the rest are angry-looking no-lip hags.

Fieldmarshaldj, exactly, she is also the most un-polish looking one having dark hair, eyes and complexion. She is fairly pretty, but the ONLY one out of that bunch. I'm not critiquing Polish women as there are some lookers and I am actually part Polish myself. I agree they all look like the angry feministas/lesbians we have here in the USA. Why would anyone want to support this? I stand by my earlier post of this reminding me of the Dixie Twits posing for Entertainment Weekly:

Equally as physically unattrative (ironic the ones that want to pose nude and make a statement are the ones you hope keep their clothes on!) and the same feminist attitude.

Balls, you think these Polish girls are attractive? You should get a new eye exam or get out a bit more lol j/k. To be honest if I were living there, I'd prefer the "stuffed shirts" than the feminist crap (think Nancy Pelosi and the ilk like her) that is still wreaking havok in America. I wish Poles the best of luck, but knowing what happened to the US from the 60's forward with feminism, I'd hope they'd avoid the same mistakes we've made.

Norton, not sure I follow your reply, what did I say that was dyslexic? Not being defensive, but don't get your reply (sarcastic or not). Also not sure what a sense of humor has to do with this polish group of women, it's not like this was a spoofed publicity stunt. Clarification please...

[fieldmarshaldj]

"To: fieldmarshaldj; balls; norton"

Dude, next time you ping us, rearrange the names. Sheesh !

[Ditter]

I have already gotten an e-mail of liberal women topless for hillary. It was scary and I deleted it as quick as I could.

[xJones]

LOL at #75!!!

[norton]

Well:

"Which gives you the worst problem...dyslexia..."
Because you can't read the sign (of course, neither can I) and associated it with Bush Bashing.

"or loss of your sense of humor"
Because the poses/image/purpose/inferred attitudes are funny in an "oh no, not again" sort of way.

We all connect the dots a little differently.

The final "I love the Poles" comment is simply true, especially the way they have grabbed onto life after Communism, supported us in the Middle East, and for their almost religious pride in their country.

Finally, yeah, what Fieldmarshalj said. My self esteem may never recover.

[puroresu]

I don’t know. Something tells me the party they’re representing is a leftist/Marxist party, not a freedom party.