Comments on: Strip

By: Hareega

Hareega — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:20:37 +0000

I wish all women in my town will learn for those liberian women

By: Huh?

Huh? — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:17:15 +0000

Thank God that women in Jordan don’t act in such a vulgar and classless manner. A woman with a hint of self-respect would never demonstrate by taking her clothes off.

By: A.Rehman

A.Rehman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:55:07 +0000

Ami glad you did not have a stroke God warrior, thought you did and was devastated. Demonstration can turn ugly and is called violent demo as in rioting or may be termed peaceful demo. Here in America we have some who zip through 9th grade or more and still hardly can read and write, a problem being addressed by educators. Warrior falls under this category.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:02:44 +0000

Ahriman,

Demonstrating in any form takes the shape of what worked before and what scandalize the most. In some societies they burn cars and offices and hospitals-they dstroy.

That’s actually not called "demonstrating". That is called rioting.

Tololy, these women succeeded in drawing international attention to their cause. I saw this news article myself yesterday and it was reported as a top story. For whatever reason, their protest was successful!

PS-It’s actually customary in American society for old hippies in San Francisco to strip naked when they protest too. But journalists go out of their way to pretend they don’t notice all the wrinkled up old nasty looking naked people.

By: A.Rehman

A.Rehman — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:29:58 +0000

Demonstrating in any form takes the shape of what worked before and what scandalize the most. In some societies they burn cars and offices and hospitals-they dstroy. In some they block roads peacefully. In some they carry palcards and don’t even block the streets. In some they fast or resort to self-immolation. In all cases the final goal is to cause outrage and draw attention to a plight or percieved plight. In this case going naked may work for those women as it seems to have worked before. It applies to a specific society and does not work for all. Carrying a placard on the side walk in Jordan say may not work nor does going naked. Those women used the only weapon they have that is known to bring the desired effect. They succeeded by the fact we are reading this. Iam not condeming them,they have qenuine problem with that one solution, but they are the first to see themslves as bodies without delving into who is to blame for making them see themselves as bodies, another topic.

By: Tololy

Tololy — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:47:01 +0000

I think you misunderstood what I said. Had the women not been naked, as is the custom it seems in Africa, their cause would not have garnered as much attention as it did.

Don’t get emotional. In a society that sees women as bodies only, neglecting their rights and intellect, they are forced to use that status to their advantage. It’s being smart, but it’s a sad state of affairs like I mentioned. Let’s hope it changes.

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:17:28 +0000

‘Stripping naked is a traditional form of protest amongst poor and powerless women in Africa’ that’s why they stripped not because ‘It seems a woman always has to invest in her body to survive in the world’… and this statement is totally wrong, dangerous and offending for women themselves above all!!Do think protesting naked women get what they need by stripping only! Will the prices go down if Jordanian women strip and protest inflation?!Forgive me Tol but it is hella weird how you put things together by that conclusion!