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Feminists Claim Iconic WWII Victory Kiss Statue Depicts 'Sexual Assault'
Breitbart ^ | October 7, 2014 | Andre Walker

Posted on 10/07/2014 7:34:53 AM PDT by beaversmom

The 25ft statue which weighs 13 tonnes was placed close to Pegasus Bridge to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Whilst the Caen Memorial Museum have described it as an “iconic work” French feminist group Osez Le Féminisme have started a petition to have it removed.

They maintain the women in the original photo did not consent to being kissed and it was therefore a sexual assault. Alfred Eisenstaedt who took the original photo has confirmed the sailor in the photo was kissing any woman who came close to him. He is said to have had little regard for whether they were young or old, attractive or not.

The group told The Times: “The sailor could have laughed with these women, hugged them, asked them if he could kiss them with joy... No, he chose to grab them with a firm hand to kiss them. It was an assault.”

They claim the woman in the photo backs up their allegation, although there is some despute over her identity. Museum director Stéphane Grimaldi says the woman is Edith Shain, a nurse who maintained she had not been assaulted in any way. The feminists say she is Greta Zimmer Friedman, an Austrian whose parents died in the concentration camps.

Friedman has publicly stated that she did not ask to be kissed, she was quoted as saying: “I wasn’t kissing him. He was kissing me”. However, she never made a complaint against the sailor, and in fact remained friends with him afterwards. The two met up on several occasions.

The name of the statue is a reference to the demand by Allied Forces that Axis Powers surrender without any conditions. This was achieved in 1945 after heavy casualties were inflicted on both sides. One of the bloodiest days of the conflict was...

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To: tanknetter
Thats still being pushed. There was a recent article thread here about how all penetration is a violent act and therefore assault/rape.

They don't let a good meme fall by the wayside. If you can find that thread easily, I would be interested in seeing it.

41 posted on 10/07/2014 8:04:23 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

I didn’t see her beating the guy to let her go - she grabbed her skirt in modesty, to keep it from flaring out ....


42 posted on 10/07/2014 8:05:40 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: FreedomStar3028

***They can’t get any, haven’t you ever seen a dyke?***

I saw the movie NOTHING SACRED yesterday. During a horseback parade of beautiful women comes one whom the announcer declares...”And here we have Miss Amsterdam who saved Holland when she stuck her finger in the dyke!”
I almost burst out laughing! Talk bout slipping one past the Hays Code.


43 posted on 10/07/2014 8:06:49 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: beaversmom

They’re just jealous no man wants to kiss THEM. Yuck.


44 posted on 10/07/2014 8:08:23 AM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: beaversmom
Anyone know how “feminists” fared in certain parts of Europe during the 1930’s and 1940’s?
45 posted on 10/07/2014 8:08:49 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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To: SkyDancer

She was in shock. Don’t blame the victim and say how she should have handled the situation. She had PTSD for the rest of her life.

Hey, do can I channel leftist toonism great or what?


46 posted on 10/07/2014 8:10:24 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

LOL’s


47 posted on 10/07/2014 8:11:26 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: beaversmom
She tests positive for Liberal Dementia.

If you see the good and as criminal and the depraved as progress you have it. Anybody can take the test with the following photo:



48 posted on 10/07/2014 8:20:35 AM PDT by drpix
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To: beaversmom
Feminists Claim Iconic WWII Victory Kiss Statue Depicts 'Sexual Assault'

This is a feminist example of violence and aggression against women.This is the postmodernist example of the American patriarchal system oppressing women.

49 posted on 10/07/2014 8:32:14 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: beaversmom

Feminists (closeted or in-your-face lesbians, in other words) objecting to a male on female kiss? Who’d a thunk it? < /sarc >


50 posted on 10/07/2014 9:41:47 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: beaversmom

Liberalism is truly a mental disease.


51 posted on 10/07/2014 9:42:22 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Fido969
No, what the Germans did when they marched through Russia was “sexual assault”.

And the victorious Russians got even by raping their way through Germany at war's end.

52 posted on 10/07/2014 9:46:59 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: beaversmom

53 posted on 10/07/2014 1:16:43 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

Sacrebleu!


54 posted on 10/07/2014 1:17:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: beaversmom

55 posted on 10/07/2014 1:44:33 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: JimRed
And the victorious Russians got even by raping their way through Germany at war's end.

Well, the feminists don't care about that. It's just the nasty sailor kissing the nurse that they want to crucify.

56 posted on 10/07/2014 2:27:06 PM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: Paladin2

http://www.libertystickers.com/product/Feminism-Hillary-SH/


57 posted on 10/10/2014 6:59:49 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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