In response to my post on McCain's misogyny, I received the following e-mail from Nadine Gary of the National Go Topless Campaign:
Dear Cory,
We read the article you published on Keloland.com called Sex, Oil, and Misogyny where you point out Mr McCain 's misogyny for jokingly suggesting that his wife partake in the Buffafo Chip beauty Pageant "where nudity is not uncommon" in Sturgis,SD.
We would like to take this opportunity to let you know that gotopless.org is organizing an upcoming gotopless National protest on Saturday Aug 23rd to which Mrs McCain has formally been invited because gender inequality is unfornately not a joke in the US when men are free to be sans shirt while women are arrested for it. If Mrs. McCain is to be the future first lady, we hope she will be able to influence her husband on this issue. Please note that Mrs. Obama also received a formal invitation on the behalf of Gotopless.org.
At peril of exposing my own latent sexism, I decline to provide an actual link to the organization here, since, well, it would take you to naked pictures. And at peril of exposing my latent religious intolerance, I note only that this particular movement was founded by Claude Vorhilon, a.k.a. Rael, spiritual leader of the Raelians.
You know, the Raelian Church... a UFO religion.
Mrs. Obama will likely be too busy polishing her speech to the Democratic National Convention to participate in the protest. No word on Mrs. McCain's intentions... or on whether she'll have to wear alien antenna if she participates.
There is an actual organization for this with its own day????!!! I guess it does take all kinds to make the world go round!
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Cory,
ReplyDeleteThe people who decide what SD's K-12 server should block or allow probably block you because you're a Democrat not because you write about topless or potentially topless women.
The last time I heard about a protest like this, it took place in Madison, Wisconsin, hardly a bastion of conservative ideology.
ReplyDeleteWomen wanted to go topless at the lake beaches there, but the cops would not let them. So a bunch of women marched topless through downtown.