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In reply to the discussion: I do not need... Eurocentric feminists to dictate to me what I wear or shouldn't wear. [View all]JVS
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For all the talk about FEMEN being Western, people seem to ignore that this is an Eastern European political group and will reflect tendencies unfamiliar or even unpopular with Westerners.
You seem to be presenting FEMEN as having an attitude toward religion that is very appealing to Westerners. An attitude where political activists are perfectly happy to leave religion alone as long as the religion does not interfere in the political arena. But outside of North American and Western European democracies, such an attitude is scarcer because it requires separation of church and state as a pre-condition. In places where separation of church and state has not been experienced (Tsarist Russia, Spain before the civil war) strong an unyielding anti-religion movements have been known to develop.