USA: We argued over the years that any ideology that is not based on morality and practical reason or ultimately Logos will one day be reduced to ashes. For example, take a look at Femen. In 2013 Inna Shevchenko, the leader of the Femen movement who happens to be Ukrainian, was running around literally naked in much of Europe and saying things like, “We can do everything, and so Femen are kind of feminist al-Qaida, if you want. We are feminist terrorists coming and showing how it is.”[1] Shevchenko continued:
“We are feminism’s shock troops, a spearhead unit of militants, a modern incarnation of the word fearless. Our nakedness attacks the raw nerve of the historic conflict between women and ‘the system.’
“We are nothing less than its most visual and fitting embodiment. Our activists’ bodies represent undisguised hatred for the patriarchal order, and display the new aesthetics of a rejuvenated woman’s revolution.”[2]
Some of Femen’s slogans were “Our mission is protest, our weapons are bare breasts,” “Nudity is liberty,”[3] “My Boobs, My Bombs,” “My Body, My Gun,”[4] “topless jihad,” “our tits are deadlier than your stones,” “Muslim women, let’s get naked,”[5] etc.
Naked breasts, Shevchenko tells us, are “political instruments. Our breasts are talking; our breasts are screaming” for “a new meaning. This is my political weapons.” “With our political breasts,” she said elsewhere, “we are shocking, irritating, frightening, inspiring.”[6]
She once again postulated:
“We believe that if women are left with little more than satisfying sexual desires as a life purpose, then our sexuality must become politicised. We are not denying our potential to be treated as sex objects. On the contrary, we are taking our sexuality into our own hands, turning it against our enemy. We are transforming female sexual subordination into aggression, and thereby starting the real war.
“Make no mistake about it: we are at war. This is an ideological war, a war of traditionalism against modernity, oppression against freedom, dictatorship against the right to free expression. We are targeting the three principle manifestations of patriarchy: religion, the sex industry, and dictatorship.”[7]
“We must not fall into the trap of self-censorship and create restrictions for ourselves so as to avoid ‘offending someone’s beliefs.’”[8]
Listen to the logic very carefully here: Shevchenko means to tell us all that it is freedom of speech to get naked in public places and even to literally and publicly crouch down and urinate on a picture of a grimacing Viktor Yanukovich (Ukrainian president) without getting arrested,[9] but because she was morally and intellectually crippled, she could not see why a predator would attempt to rape her while she is walking around naked and boasting about her tits.
Anyway, where is Femen now? Is it really thriving and flourishing? Or is it a dying ideology?
It is almost the same thing with the MeToo movement. After the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard verdict, the New York Times put out an article entitled, “Is the #MeToo Movement Dying?”, in which we found this statement: “…the defamation case between the actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, which turned on Heard’s self-description in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed as a representative of domestic abuse, has been read as a low-water mark for the movement.”[10]
Michelle Goldberg wrote an article entitled, “Amber Heard and the Death of #MeToo.”[11] Goldberg, as a feminist, had to put the blame on something else. She said: “There seems, however, to be a broader misogynist frenzy at work, one characteristic of the deeply reactionary moment we’re living through.”[12] In other words, it’s not Amber Heard’s repeated lies and inconsistent testimonies that destroy the MeToo movement. It’s misogyny. Total nonsense.
Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, could have easily made a strong case if she explicitly disavowed Heard’s repeated lies in court. But she came with pitchforks defending her movement as if to say that truth doesn’t matter:
“You all want to play ping pong and have your way with the hashtag because it doesn’t mean anything to you so you try to kill it every few months. But it means something to millions and millions of folks. It means freedom. It means community. It means safety. It means power. You can’t kill us. We are beyond the hashtag. We are a movement.”[13]
Well, Ms. Burke, do you agree with Amber Heard saying that she donated the 7 million dollars which he accumulated from her divorce case when in fact she never did? Do you agree with Amber Heard working with TMZ and then denying the same thing in court? Where does this tissue of lies end?
Anyway, it should be known by now that the Depp/Heard trial has almost certainly ended the MeToo movement. Everyone can now go home. Party is over.
- [1] Quoted in Decca Aitkenhead, “Femen leader Inna Shevchenko: ‘I’m for any form of feminism,’” Guardian, November 8, 2013.
- [2] Inna Shevchenko, “We Are Femen, the Naked Shock Troops of Feminism,” Guardian, April 10, 2013.
- [3] Bim Adewunmi, “If Femen was set up by a man, where does that leave its topless protests?,” Guardian, September 4, 2013.
- [4] Elaine Ganley, “Radical Femen Leader Plans US Feminist Outpost,” Seattle Times, February 20, 2014.
- [5] Anna Lekas Miller, “Femen’s ‘Topless Jihad,’” The Nation, July 1, 2013.
- [6] Quoted in Claire Suddath, “Inna Shevchenko’s Femen: Shock, Irritate, Frighten, Inspire,” Bloomberg, April 24, 2014.
- [7] Inna Shevchenko, “We Are Femen, the Naked Shock Troops of Feminism,” Guardian, April 10, 2013.
- [8] Inna Shevchenko, “Not Defending Our Ideals of Freedom Today Would Be a Crime,” Huffington Post, February 20, 2015.
- [9] I did a thorough search on this very topic, and as far as my research went, none of the major Zionist news—most specifically the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc.—covered that part of the story. They were much more interested in reporting ad nauseam how “white” cops hate “blacks” and that those cops just want those people dead because they are “black.” They are still doing this (see for example Jaeah Lee, “White Police Officer Is South Carolina’s Third Charged in Past Year for Killing an Unarmed Black Man,” Mother Jones, April 8, 2015; Charles M. Blow, “In South Carolina, Shot in the Back as He Ran,” NY Times, April 8, 2015; Kelly Riddell, “George Soros Funds Ferguson Protests, Hopes to Spur Civil Actions,” Washington Times, January 14, 2015). The only outlets I found that actually reported the event was International Business Times, the Huffington Post, and the Atlantic; but as it turned out, they only did it to promote Inna Shevchenko’s feminist cause. Umberto Bacchi, “Ukraine: Topless Femen Activists’ Dirty Protest against President Yanukovich,” International Business Times, December 2, 2013.
- [10] Spencer Bokat-Lindell, “Is the #MeToo Movement Dying?,” NY Times, June 8, 2022.
- [11] Michelle Goldberg, “Amber Heard and the Death of #MeToo,” NY Times, May 18, 2022.
- [12] Ibid.
- [13] “Me Too Founder Tarana Burke Reacts To Depp-Heard Trial Verdict,” Huffington Post, June 2, 2022.
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