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Russia Today: 'Lift the skirt’ campaign urges French schoolboys to skip trousers for a day
Russia Today ^ | 14 May 2014

Posted on 05/14/2014 6:03:27 PM PDT by mandaladon

Nantes education authorities have launched a 'Lift the Skirt' campaign to support gender equality. Under the campaign, male students and teachers of 27 public schools are invited to wear skirts on May 16, sparking controversy in the western French city.

The idea to swap trousers for skirts in a stand against sexism originated from pupils themselves, and was sanctioned by the city's school authorities and therefore by the Ministry of Education, the Local reported.

Those who prefer not to bare their legs have the option of wearing a sticker which says, “I am fighting against sexism, are you?”

Although the campaign was staged in 20 schools last year, the anti-sexism initiative has caused a stir on social media and among local Nantes groups which are planning a protest on 'Lift the Skirt,' or 'Ce que soulève la jupe' day.

French political activist Frigide Barjot, known for her stance against same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption, shared the campaign's press release on twitter and asked the country's minister for education, Benoit Hamon, if girls should be wearing beards. “We’ll do any old nonsense in the name of equality,” Olivier Vial, president of the conservative UNI party, said. “This move is inspired by the Day of the Skirt, whose original aim was to allow women to express their femininity in environments where it was often difficult. But this is just denying feminine and masculine identity.”

The news comes just days after Thomas Neuwirth, a singer from Austria, won the Eurovision song contest while performing as bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst.

(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: crossdressing; france; gays; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; skirts; surrendermonkeys
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To: mandaladon

They can all wear Utilikilts, if they can afford them.


41 posted on 05/14/2014 8:20:57 PM PDT by Disambiguator (#hashtagline)
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To: mandaladon

How weak Europe is. I see why Islam is becoming a force, it doesn’t bow down to this rot while the European mainline churches accepted the rot.


42 posted on 05/14/2014 8:22:26 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: RginTN

Pansy Europe is not long for this world


43 posted on 05/14/2014 8:29:22 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: mandaladon

At my high school in 1990 they wouldn’t let us wear shorts so we girls just wore those denim mini skirts popular at the time. The boys had a “protest day” and wore the same denim miniskirts. The shorts ban was lifted shortly thereafter.


44 posted on 05/14/2014 8:57:20 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: stubernx98
Could be. I haven't noticed much of it, but I do remember the art work for some Biblical characters with what appeared like tight skirts. Mostly in the Babylonian era I believe.

Some of the depictions of the image representing different nations over time show the guy in a skirt.

Some of the depictions of Joseph and the leaders of Egypt show them in skirts.


45 posted on 05/14/2014 9:13:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: mandaladon

The French, they are a funny race...


46 posted on 05/14/2014 11:15:53 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: mandaladon; Fred Nerks
Sans Cullotte ( without breeches)...its a French Revolution thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-culottes In the French Revolution, the sans-culottes (French pronunciation: ​[sɑ̃kyˈlɔt]; "without culottes") were the radical left-wing partisans of the lower classes; typically urban labourers, which dominated France. Though ill-clad and ill-equipped, they made up the bulk of the Revolutionary army during the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars.[1] The appellation refers to the fashionable culottes (silk knee-breeches) of the moderate bourgeois revolutionaries, as distinguished from the working class sans-culottes, who traditionally wore pantalons (trousers). Among the political ideals held by the sans-culottes were popular democracy, social and economic equality, affordable food, rejection of the free-market economy, and vigilance against counter-revolutionaries.[3][4] During the peak of their influence, roughly 1792 to 1795, the sans-culottes provided the principal support behind the two far-left factions of the Paris Commune, the Enragés and the Hébertists.................................
47 posted on 05/15/2014 3:21:41 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: NFHale
dude, i knew that comment had your signature all over it...

queers have just about suckseeded in the takeover...

48 posted on 05/15/2014 4:09:04 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

I’m flattered!!!! Hahah!!!

As far as succeeding... that remains to be seen.

People either CHOOSE to “obey” - or they don’t.


49 posted on 05/15/2014 5:03:18 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: mandaladon

Funny how few people seem to make the connection between sexism and feminism.


50 posted on 05/15/2014 5:09:50 AM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: BenLurkin

Not true at all. That is why there is a utility kilt....I know Scots men who prefer a kilt


51 posted on 05/15/2014 6:57:23 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: BenLurkin

For your edification (because you apparently have NO Celtic blood running in your veins)

the term is CABER


52 posted on 05/15/2014 6:58:36 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Fred Nerks

Bearded ‘ladies’ and boys in skirts. Maybe what Europe needs is a lovely war or a famine.>>>>>>>>>>

Not long to wait. Obiwan Obammy has set Europe on a course of self deflection.....and then destruction.


54 posted on 05/15/2014 3:27:56 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Fred Nerks

Just think how lovely it would be, a One World Government run by bureaucrats...they’ll need lots of cattle-cars and crematoriums for that.>>>>>>>>>>>>

And islam will be there to help.>>>>>>>>>>

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The base work for it has already been completed by FEMA in the USA with the help of a corporation called “Gundersons Rail Services.” ( Automax Rail Cars which have shackles for humans):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vBO24iVVw-4

The FEMA prison camps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-hvPJPTi4

Very sobering footage now that we have a fascist government in the USA. and of course the Muslim Brotherhood advize Obama directly. They would have a direct role as you say.

People used to brand those who show such facts in public as kooks. Now as the Obama regime begins to actually engage in fascist conduct, we realize we are only a couple of executive orders away from watching such facilities be openly used. Their use would put a distinct chill on constitutional freedoms ( understatement.). Many are glad they no longer live in the USA.


56 posted on 05/16/2014 3:06:46 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Fred Nerks

There are many mysterious storage facilities in the Nevada desert. The federal bureau of land management also seems to be on a course of conquest in taking over federal grazing lands for other purposes ( The Bundy Fiasco).

I wish America could produce a Shiane Hawke for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z145Kc2B7E

but as a people we are becoming too jaded. We have lost our innocence, and the leftist, utopian, evil ones among us are preparing for mass destruction if their authority is challenged by the people.

That challenge is now taking shape. Where it will lead is anyone’s guess. But the country cannot exist without freedom, so it will be freedom or oblivion. The Obama fascists have brought us to a point of crisis.Perhaps the spirit of goodness is still alive in America.Time will tell.


59 posted on 05/17/2014 5:18:09 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Candor7; Fred Nerks

Either stay on topic or stay off the thread.


60 posted on 05/17/2014 9:05:55 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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