Comments on: Brainquake or Boobquake – Can we rid the ridiculous? http://www.momsrising.org/blog/brainquake-or-boobquake-can-we-rid-the-ridiculous/ Where Moms and the people who love them fight for a better America Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Homa Tavangar http://www.momsrising.org/blog/brainquake-or-boobquake-can-we-rid-the-ridiculous/comment-page-1/#comment-48151 Homa Tavangar Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:24:15 +0000 http://www.momsrising.org/blog/?p=4782#comment-48151 These are great, thoughtful points. Heather, it's so true that the mockery is lost in a fanatic view - from whatever perspective. The key on this issue was the ridiculousness of the original assertion. Sadly, when boobs, sex, other provocateurs are brought on to the debate, they do a better job attracting the attention that's really needed at the core of the narrow-minded statements. I'm thinking to start each blog post with "SEX!!!" Then i can say whatever i want. These are great, thoughtful points. Heather, it’s so true that the mockery is lost in a fanatic view – from whatever perspective. The key on this issue was the ridiculousness of the original assertion. Sadly, when boobs, sex, other provocateurs are brought on to the debate, they do a better job attracting the attention that’s really needed at the core of the narrow-minded statements. I’m thinking to start each blog post with “SEX!!!” Then i can say whatever i want.

]]> By: Merrie Hamadani http://www.momsrising.org/blog/brainquake-or-boobquake-can-we-rid-the-ridiculous/comment-page-1/#comment-47256 Merrie Hamadani Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:39:23 +0000 http://www.momsrising.org/blog/?p=4782#comment-47256 While I think it is important as women to celebrate our femininity we should not have our femininity exploited by society. We should not be made to feel weak or inferior. We as women should be fully recognized for our intellect, accomplishments and contributions to our global community. As mothers we are teachers to our children who later become adults. That impact is not only felt by those children throughout their lives, but it is those adult children who impact our world. We as women should be celebrated not demoralized... While I think it is important as women to celebrate our femininity we should not have our femininity exploited by society. We should not be made to feel weak or inferior. We as women should be fully recognized for our intellect, accomplishments and contributions to our global community. As mothers we are teachers to our children who later become adults. That impact is not only felt by those children throughout their lives, but it is those adult children who impact our world. We as women should be celebrated not demoralized…

]]> By: Heather http://www.momsrising.org/blog/brainquake-or-boobquake-can-we-rid-the-ridiculous/comment-page-1/#comment-47074 Heather Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:30:00 +0000 http://www.momsrising.org/blog/?p=4782#comment-47074 I think both Brainquake and Boobquake are great ideas, and I'm sorry to see feminists criticizing Boobquake for supposedly trivializing a serious issue. That's like criticizing Jonathan Swift's "Modest Proposal" that the Irish solve their famine problems by eating their children. He wasn't trivializing the issue, he was motivated by anger at the cruelty of the British administration, and his chosen response was extreme satire. What do these fanatics hate more than anything? Mockery. We can see that from the uproar over the Danish Mohammed cartoons or the recent controversy over South Park's skewering of extremist Islam. Moreover, women asserting their right to dress as they please isn't pandering to the male gaze. The fanatics want women to cover up, and they threaten divine retribution to make it happen; the Boobquake women are calling them out on the stupidity of their ideas and asserting the right of women to dress however they please. I see no difference between an event like this, and the mass breastfeeding events that feminists have staged in businesses that have been hostile to breastfeeding women. I think both Brainquake and Boobquake are great ideas, and I’m sorry to see feminists criticizing Boobquake for supposedly trivializing a serious issue. That’s like criticizing Jonathan Swift’s “Modest Proposal” that the Irish solve their famine problems by eating their children. He wasn’t trivializing the issue, he was motivated by anger at the cruelty of the British administration, and his chosen response was extreme satire.

What do these fanatics hate more than anything? Mockery. We can see that from the uproar over the Danish Mohammed cartoons or the recent controversy over South Park’s skewering of extremist Islam.

Moreover, women asserting their right to dress as they please isn’t pandering to the male gaze. The fanatics want women to cover up, and they threaten divine retribution to make it happen; the Boobquake women are calling them out on the stupidity of their ideas and asserting the right of women to dress however they please. I see no difference between an event like this, and the mass breastfeeding events that feminists have staged in businesses that have been hostile to breastfeeding women.

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