It is no surprise that FEMEN, the Ukrainian feminism group, has found the need to resort to bare-breasted demonstrations with slogans such as "Nudity is Freedom" painted across their chests. The feminist message is not always a simple one to dissipate and media attention is easily distracted by out-of-the-ordinary things. This method, however, has become ineffective enough that discussion has been centered mainly on the breasts themselves leaving little time for the actual issues. Recently, FEMEN's members in numerous countries across Europe and elsewhere demonstrated >>>

I have been following the raging online battle over the FEMEN "Topless Jihad Day" and hoped that someone would move away from the Western White versus Eastern Muslim debate and talks about Eastern European women. I read Maryna Hrushetska's article on Al Jazeera and was disappointed, as not only the author fails to provide any context to the Eastern European women's experience, but - based on it, I presume she grew up in Ukraine - also fails to understand why the debate has been raging for so long in the first place. Although (unlike Maryna) I am not a "Viking descendant Slav" but >>>