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There was a protest in downtown Seattle today. See if you can guess just WHAT these women were out there in the rain, a’tryin’ to change!

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Kelly O—formerly a Stranger staff photographer, music writer, Drunk of the Week columnist, and more!—finished art school and a soul-crushing internship at a corporate advertising agency in Detroit,...

58 replies on “Today’s Protest at 4th and Pine”

  1. Christ. Skinny bitches showing their horrible bodies to people who really don’t want to see it – obviously anti-fur.

    Now I must go vomit.

  2. @3
    I’m not so sure about that. A close, complete and thorough inspection of their bodies is warranted in this case.

  3. Damn, I was SURE it was the taco bell meat. It was the only one posed appropriately as a question (look at them, these ladies have no answers), and it had no actual cause behind it that would require a political stance (pretty sure the stance you see is the only one they have)…

  4. Haha good job everyone for sexually belittling these women for standing up for their beliefs! Seattle truly is a social epoch isn’t it?

  5. @ 19 – Standing up for their beliefs on a city sidewalk wearing pink panties and not much else.

    Hhmmm. Who is really doing the objectification here?

  6. These kind of bullshit stunts for media attention drive me insane.

    I’m 100% for protesting specism. But for christsake, DON’T DO IT BY PROMOTING SEXISM THROUGH THE OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN!

  7. @30 Who says sexy == objectification?

    Fuck off and die you puritanical, sex-negative, repressed virgin asshole. I’m drunk right now, and I hate you.

  8. @32 – I don’t think sexy = objectification.

    I consider myself sex-positive and actively try to dispel any negative or shameful associations people have about sex.

    Some displays of sexuality are positive. The ones that perpetuate the idea that women exist purely for the sexual gratification of men are not.

    Please accept this link to a variety of “feminist porn” sites as a peace offering. (Scroll to the bottom of the article for links). Enjoy!

  9. @35

    You ARE NOT sex positive. These women wanted to do this. Who are you to pass judgement on them?

    Go away 2nd Waver; you are no longer needed.

  10. I always get a chuckle out of people who play the objectification card when activist women go naked for attention.

    Firstly, they’re doing it of their own free will, taking advantage of the fact that they will get attention.

    Secondly, if you always assume that simply seeing a [half] naked woman will lead to her objectification, then it is yourself that must be objectifying her. There’s a name for people who complain when women reveal their bodies… it’s “the Taliban”.

  11. i’m just going to go ahead and say sexy does=objectification. and i’m fucking sick of it, peta. call me a troll or whatever. I HATE SEXY FOREVER.

  12. 35/Logan, how do you know what displays of female sexuality perpetuate the idea that “women exist purely for the sexual gratification of men“?

  13. 40/erin: i’m just going to go ahead and say sexy does=objectification.

    That’s true in the sense that a person in, for example, a sexy photo can be a object of (fantasy) desire for many people (and that object of desire can, of course, be a man or a woman.)

    But what most people who rant about “objectification” don’t get is that just because a bunch of people see a sexy man or woman in a photo as an object of desire, it doesn’t mean that they are incapable of seeing and relating to men or women as “whole” human beings.

  14. Dude, this is nothing: PETA has been doing this here, in Saskatoon, and in Regina, over the past two months.
    And our temperature today was a -22, before the windchill. Too cold to even stop and gawk, hah.

  15. I realize that this issue isn’t as simple as I first approached it here.

    I’m always a bit conflicted when thinking about this kind of thing. It’s like, “People have a right to express themselves however they want and who am I to judge?” But I still can’t help feeling that porn with men slapping women in the face with their cocks and calling them whores and bitches IS sending a bad message.

    Perhaps the depiction itself isn’t the harmful part; but the interpretation of someone who holds sexist views is where the problem lies? Is that anywhere close to what you’re getting at Roma?

  16. You’re right, Logan, it’s not a simple issue. And yes, that’s basically what I’m saying. If some guy sees women only as sex objects, he’s going to see them that way whether there are partially-clothed PETA protesters on the street or not. A guy who sees women as whole human beings doesn’t think women are only good for sex just because he sees those PETA women or sees women naked in porn.

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