Posted on 06/02/2008 5:42:29 AM PDT by Invisigoth
The words “panties” and “spreading” usually don’t appear together on the agenda for bringing democracy, but a Canadian human rights group is changing all that. Panties for Peace has been around for less than a year, but the underwear revolution has spread to the Philippines, Spain, Poland and the U.S. It plays on the popular belief in Burma that contact with women’s panties strips a fighter of his strength.
Yes, you read that correctly. Burma’s women have been victims of sexual violence and rape as weapons of war of the military junta for over 20 years. Now the body parts the military has used to degrade women are becoming the threat, with the use of women’s intimate apparel to counter the abuses. It’s a peaceful means of promoting democracy by using the misogyny that so far has worked in their favor.
In Burma, men’s clothes, sheets and towels must be kept separate, and offenses are taken seriously. This may seem outlandish to American women – Cosmo and Sex and the City have been convincing us that slipping a little leopard print sumthin’ sumthin’ into a man’s briefcase will disarm him. In Burma, it’s a different kind of disarmament and it will not get you a candlelit dinner.
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Panties have been known to bring many a male to their knees, misogynist or not. ;^)
This is conjuring up disturbing images.
War is Hell.
Reminds me of the Jimmy Buffet song where he proposes showering the Soviet Union with money followed up by Victorias Secret catalogues.
“we’ve got full employment, and the Russians have crotchless underware until the 21st century”
Bingo. What was the name of the song?
Lord how far we have collapsed from the heady days of “The Rights of Man” and the Declaration of Independence.
It was off of a live album-FEEDING FRENZY-it was him performing as “Reverend Jim”-doing a sermon as the lead in to “Why don’t we get drunk and screw”.
I hear that Rosie and all the girls and guys from boobs not bombs sent at least one pair some only had one pair their sacrifice is even greater.
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