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".
if I was a betting man, and I am, I would agree with you about at least the back row being angry lesbians.
haha now THAT was funny!
to: Blue Highway; balls; norton
Thank heavens you have “Highway” after “Blue” or that really wouldn’t be pretty for Norton. Of course, we’ve all had dates that ended up like that for us males.
I guess the challenge is finding the way to address a group of people, one with the name balls, and it isn’t easy, haha. If you rearrange the words it’s not pretty with norton’s blue balls on the highway
That can be a problem trying to find a place to put your balls.
Ouch!
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