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Inna Shevchenko: Naked Breasts Are Political Weapons

Source: veteranstoday.com




Inna Shevchenko, the leader of the Femen movement, is not an obscure individual in Europe and much of the Western world. She once bragged:

“I’m proud to say we brought the idea of feminism and women’s rights to a politically ignorant part of the world like Ukraine, Russia, Belarus. And I’m proud to say I think we brought feminism back on to the streets of Europe as well.”

She continued to say elsewhere:

“Our goal is to occupy the world with Femen’s tactics of modern feminism, and we appear in countries when called upon by women to come there. We set up Femen branches when women say ‘we need Femen in my country’ and where some are ready to act as sextremists.”

Shevchenko joined the movement when she was only nineteen years old. “Femen has transformed into a global movement led by Shevchenko and backed by 250 activists in nine countries. It now plans to open its first outpost in the United States.”

Shevchenko, now twenty-five years old, got straight to the point when she said:

“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.”

Feminist Bell Hooks, who said last year that Beyonce is “a terrorist…especially in terms of impact on young girls,” would probably agree with Shevchenko here. Hooks added:

“Would we be at all interested in Beyonce if she wasn’t so rich? Because I don’t think you can separate her class power and the wealth, from people’s fascination with her. That here is a young, black woman who is so incredibly wealthy, and wealthy is what so many young people fantasize, dream about, sexualize, eroticize.

“One could argue, even more than her body, it’s what that body stands for — the body of desire fulfilled, that is wealth, fame, celebrity, all the things that so many people in our culture are lusting for, wanting. If Beyonce was a homeless woman who looked the same way, or a poor, down-and-out woman who looked the same way, would people be enchanted by her?”

The answer is probably no. But Hooks seems to forget that she was and still is part of the feminist movement, which is to say that her trenchant critique here is fundamentally in contradiction to what feminism stands for. As we shall see, it is same thing with Shevchenko.

Shevchenko—like Nietzsche who ended up agreeing that metaphysical truths do not exist if God is dead—goes to the political substratum of feminism and follows that premise to its “logical” conclusion. It is here that our story becomes very interesting, and it is also at that level that we are going to challenge Shevchenko.

Shevchenko said:

“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.

But Shevchenko cannot accomplish her goal without balancing her philosophy in explicitly ideological terms. She argued:

“Once any monotheistic religion is starting, feminism is finished.”

By “religion,” Shevchenko obviously does not include Rabbinic Judaism. In fact, Femen never attacked or insulted Synagogues:

“Femen has orchestrated a raft of bare-breasted protests with a range of targets: near the Vatican, in front of Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, near the Grand Mosque of Paris and in several churches outside France, including at Christmas Mass at Cologne Cathedral. There, a single topless woman [Shevchenko] with ‘I am God’ painted on her chest briefly jumped onto the altar.”

Moreover, some of Femen’s slogans are “Our mission is protest, our weapons are bare breasts,” “Nudity is liberty,” “Pope No More” “Pope game over,” “My Boobs, My Bombs,” “My Body, My Gun,” “topless jihad,” “our tits are deadlier than your stones,” “Muslim women, let’s get naked,” etc.

Certainly there is more here than just protest against injustice and unfairness. 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.” 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.”

Shevchenko is indirectly articulating the thesis of Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control, written by E. Michael Jones fifteen years ago. She probably has never read the book, but since truth transcends culture and space and time, Shevchenko ends up arguing the same principles which are found throughout the book, though in an intellectually incestuous or perverse way.





Sexual liberation, says Jones, is a form of political control because it takes morality out of the social, political, and natural order and replaces it with unbridled passion and lust, which darkens the mind and corrupts the very being of a person. Euripides’ The Bacchae is a classic example of this. Wilhelm Reich also understood this principle. “Sexual revolution,” says Jones,

“is contemporaneous with political revolution of the sort that began in France in 1789…sexual liberation begets almost from the moment of its inception the need for social control…

“Like laissez-faire economics, the first tentative ideas of how to exploit sex as a form of social control arose during the Enlightenment as well. If the universe was a machine whose prime force was gravity, society was a machine as well whose prime force was self-interest, and man, likewise, no longer sacred, was a machine whose engine ran on passion. From there it was not much of a stretch to understand that the man who controlled passion controlled man.

“Of all the passions,” he continues to say, “the sexual passions are the most effective when it comes to controlling man.” Shevchenko, since she is an indirect descendent of the sexual revolution, understands this principle. “With our bare breasts,” she said,

“We are responding by knocking down the great oligarch and his security-service clowns, and with them, the image he has been so carefully cultivating…We are calling for a global sexual revolt against the system.

“We cannot tell you of our upcoming plans, or what the final result of our struggle will be, but we’re working on them around the clock. The only thing I can say for sure to all those against whom we are fighting is that we are not about to let you enshrine such shit as yourselves in a cult.”

Shevchenko continues to shoot herself the toes by saying,

“When we talk about the freedom of expression, there will always be a point of view that says ‘yes, we are all for freedom of expression, but…’ Why do we continue adding this ‘but’? … we need to share our ideas forcefully, without hesitation and without any ‘but.’

“We must not fall into the trap of self-censorship and create restrictions for ourselves so as to avoid ‘offending someone’s beliefs.’”

Does Shevchenko mean to tell us all that it is freedom of speech to get naked in public places and even to literally crouch down and urinate on a picture of a grimacing Viktor Yanukovich (Ukrainian president) in the streets of Ukraine without getting arrested?



Furthermore, Shevchenko’s sweeping assertion simply does not hold water even at a superficial level. In fact, it ends up proving the very thing that Shevchenko sought to destroy.

If we must avoid “offending someone’s beliefs” and opinions and perhaps actions, shouldn’t the authorities avoid Shevchenko’s opinions and arrest her anyway? Why should they be quiet when their conscience is screaming and saying that this self-proclaimed feminist terrorist ought to be arrested?

Furthermore, doesn’t Shevchenko’s own weltanschauung implicitly say that repression is a bad thing? Should the authorities repress their feelings or urge? Here and elsewhere we see that Shevchenko’s ideological project comes to an intellectual dead end and is beyond resuscitation.



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