Hardly a slap on the wrist for Femen nude invasion of famous Cathedral

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2014-12-23 09:56

Story here. Excerpt:

'The topless “Femen” activist who desecrated the Parisian church of the Madeleine days before Christmas last year was given a one-month suspended prison sentence for “sexual exhibitionism” on Wednesday by a penal tribunal in Paris.

Eloise Bouton, 31, made the headlines on December 20, 2013, when she burst into the choir of the church half-naked, shouting “Christmas is canceled,” bearing the same inscription on her back and the words “344e salope” (344th b****) on her chest.

These words refer to a famous manifesto published in 1971 by 343 women, mostly intellectuals, actresses and political activists, in the left-wing magazine Nouvel Observateur, in which they claimed to have had an illegal abortion and demanded the legalization of abortion. This was to take place four years later, in December 1974.

Wearing a blue veil reminiscent of the Virgin Mary and a crown of red flowers, Bouton posed for several minutes in front of the church’s main altar, brandishing two pieces of beef liver symbolizing an aborted child. Days later, she published an article – again in the Nouvel Observateur – in which she called the pieces of liver “symbols of the aborted infant Jesus” and said she “left the bloody holy fetus at the foot of the altar.”'

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Answer's simple: if they did that, they know they'd get the book thrown at them, or not make it out of the place under their own power. Not everyone has the same sense of "humor" about such things as desecrating religious sites.

But maybe this is something else. Maybe they're actually getting paid by the ppl or institutions they're behaving this way toward. Think of it, every time they attack a pol, institution, etc., it gets more popular as a result. I'm beginning to think Femen is an ingenious reverse-psych advertising agency. For real.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2014-12-23 18:30