implants + porn = Che Guevara
Turkish-German actress Sila Sahin:
‘I have always abided by what men say. As a result I developed an extreme desire for freedom. I feel like Che Guevara. I have to do everything I want, otherwise I feel like I may as well be dead.’
In a bold bid to demonstrate her freedom from abiding by “what men say,” she has posed naked on the cover of Playboy. It would be funny if it weren’t so goddamn pathetic.
Also, what the hell is up with these globular implants? I wonder, do lesbians find those things attractive? They look like horrible chest deformities to me.
22 Responses to “implants + porn = Che Guevara”
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JeanLouise says:
It’s so sad that Sahin thinks that posing in Playboy is freeing. I think that if she’s honest with herself, she’ll come to regret it.
I agree that the fake breast looks deformed. I don’t know how lesbians feel about it but I’ve asked several men. Their response was they like big breasts and they don’t care if they’re real or not.
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Branjor says:
Well, I’m lesbian and I have to say I find the things hideous – I value women the way they are naturally.
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Branjor says:
However, I have to say that if I loved a woman the implants wouldn’t make any difference at all.
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votermom says:
I am now imagining Che Guevara with implants.
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anna says:
It’s probably just a marketing gimmick. “This poor oppressed Muslim woman is finally free to express herself! Which she has chosen to do by flaunting her ass for you, naturally. You’re not a skeevy loser, you’re helping her.”
On the other hand, I can see how a woman raised to believe “good girls cover up” would find it liberating and daring to pose for Playboy, just as I have heard some women who are sick of being judged for their looks find becoming religious and covering up very freeing. But the really freeing thing is to drop the whole virgin/whore dichotomy, of course. Women should be free to express their sexuality and wear what they like, and should not be pressured either to cover up or to engage in painful, expensive “beauty regimens” and define their sexuality as attracting and pleasing men, with no thought to their own pleasure.
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julia says:
This reminds me that feminism can be used and misused in different ways. If you think you can control your victimization by saying to men, ‘I’ll beat you at your own game’ then this would be a good example – posing for Playboy. In certain circles it’s considered liberating. Only a free woman would pose naked for thousands of men to see and feel good about it.
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Sasha CA says:
I do think her comment must be taken in context of having been raised Muslim and told that her body is this shameful thing that must be covered at all times. I can see how posing for Playboy might feel liberating or even revolutionary coming from her background. Unfortunately she is merely substituting one patriarchal mandate for another.
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Mary Tracy says:
From what I’ve heard, the overwhelming majority of lesbians dislike the overwhelming majority of made-for-straight-dudes porn.
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Toonces says:
I don’t mean to insult women with implants, but that very orb-like type looks quite muscular to me, like oversized pecs. I also observe that many men who go for a certain type of uber-Barbie seem to be overcompensating. It’s something I’ve often wondered about.
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MandT says:
I would rather rest my weary head on a soft down pillow than an over-sized tether ball, any day!
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Adrienne in CA says:
Ms. Sahin has just earned herself the Patriarchy Seal of Approval (exp. 15 minutes).
Won’t it be great when all Muslim women can choose from the limited set of Patriarchy Approved Freedoms:
1. Burkha covered controlled fertility
2. Pole dancing controlled fertility
3. Dead (admittedly a less popular option).*****A
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monchichipox says:
I mean to feel sorry for women with implants. I can’t imagine the damage that has been done to someone who would willingly(if that word is even applicable) let herself be cut open to have plastic bags sewn into her. If I don’t feel sorry for them I’d get angry at them. That would do no good. The fact that this is even allowable barely falls short of being just another sexual assault. Did I just type that? What happened to do no damage?
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Daphne says:
I’ll venture to guess she’s got brand-new implants. Some women seem to have an impulse to show off their new implants. Unfortunately, they look tight and unsettled.
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Sophie says:
Another Lesbian data point: I do not find breast implants attractive.
It is really a shame and a failure of imagination that this is what she chose to do to express her freedom. While I support every woman’s right to choose what to do or not do with their own body, I also support my own right to like or dislike the result.
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Violet Socks says:
My point wasn’t to criticize Ms. Sahin, but to bemoan the ridiculous situation. I like the way Adrienne spelled out the choices:
1. Burkha covered controlled fertility
2. Pole dancing controlled fertility
3. Dead (admittedly a less popular option)In the EuroAmerican west, the Sexual Revolution of the 60′s preceded Second Wave feminism. It is possible that this sequence of events was necessary. First free women from the virgin half of the dichotomy; then they discover that the other side is just as much of a trap. We can only hope that something like that will happen for Muslim women.
You know, those actresses in miniskirts on the original Star Trek actually thought they were liberated. Amazing but true.
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julia says:
Adrienne, great analysis!
The sexual revolution as I understand it was mostly for men. There was a lot of pressure to be a “hip chick” meaning one who has sex with any guy who asks. If you didn’t you had hang-ups and wouldn’t be invited to the anti-war commitee meetings.
Carolyn Gage writes a lot about trying to manipulate the patriarchy so you can feel powerful. Her point is that it’s impossible to be powerful under male domination, but I certainly understand why some women do it. It may be their only option to feel kind of free.
And let us not forget that women make so little money, and Playboy pays well.
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Ciardha says:
Off topic for this thread but perhaps we need some positive news- the Google translation of the policy page of the woman who heads the SDP of Japan- and this party is regaining political power like it did under Takako Doi (Mizuho Fukushima’s poltical mentor as well) Doi ended up becoming Japan’s first female Speaker of the House- some years before Nancy Pelosi did in the US, and unlike Pelosi, Doi pushed hard for laws strengthening women’s rights and putting a anti sexual harassment law on the books- a law Japanese women have used to sue the harassers- it’s made Japanese men much less apt to try doing that to women. I’m hoping the SDP puts Mizuho Fukushima on the ballot and pushes hard for a majority so she can become Japan’s first female prime minister. I certainly like her policy page, and she even recent marched in the anti Tepco protests in Japan.
link to policy page in Japanese:
http://www.mizuhoto.org/policy/2010/12/2011.html
I’ll copy the rough translation of her policy page in my next comment- afraid it would be too long if I included it here -
Ciardha says:
Problem with which it grapples in 2011
Contribution date: December 30th 16:41 of 2010| Category: Problem with which it grapples in 2011Was in charge of gender equality as a minister, consumer issues, children, parenting support, youth policy, the policy people with disabilities, such as suicide prevention theme, the theme came from the past.
Moreover, employment and ending nuclear power generation, etc. are party themes. To put out the result tenaciously, and persistently, the person of many is matched to power.
Kan, the Cabinet and the Liberal-Democratic Party did not do well on issues of peace
Their conference participation in TPP, their corporation tax reduction, and the consumption tax rate?That why is the Social Democratic turn. “Rebuilding lives” towards, and honestly, perseverance and to put out the result firmly.
- Employment
The Worker Dispatch Law revision to have worked on years how many is achieved only in 2011. And, I want to make the labor charter including the achievement of “Human labor” and the restriction of long working hours and the achievement of the same value labor and the uniform wage, etc.｢How does the company become it?!｣It tends to be said very much. Whether work because the important value it is necessary to place at the center for the society has not been established to the society for in it? I want to make the society that places the value of labor at the center from the labor charter-making movement.- Revision of Worker Dispatch Law
- Revision of part-time working act and having definite period employment method
- A labor charter is made.
- Measure-making for the same value labor same pay achievement
- Social security and medical treatment- Rebuilding of medical treatment:
- late-stage elderly medical care
- the reconstruction of community health
- improve the treatment of pension care workers
- better working conditions for midwives
- Maintenance of nursing facilities
- Improvement of treatment of nursing staff
- Measures against problems of poverty- Gender-equality
- Ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Amend the Civil Code
- Implementation of the Third Basic Plan for Gender Equality
- Enhancement of DV victim support with the third revision of Domestic Violence Prevention Law- Consumer
- Promotion of the Basic Plan for Consumers
- Support of the local consumer administrations
- Improvement of labor conditions
- Assistance to Japan Consumer Information Center- Child
- Legislation of fundamental law of children’s rights
- “Parenting Children Vision” (Parenting Support)
- Achievement of “Vision for children and young people” (Youth Policy)
- “Child and child-nurturing new system” is changed well.
- Support strengthening to child who is abused-People with Disabilities
-revision of the Basic Law of People with Disabilities in 2011
-Welfare Law Center for Persons with disabilities an alternative to support law independence of people with disabilities by 2012
-creating a law against discrimination of people with disabilities by 2013- Promotion of inclusive education
- coexistence policy- Promotion of suicide prevention measure
- Support of sexual minority
- Support to various minorities- Tax system
- Oppose Corporation tax reduction
- The dependent spouse tax exemption improve the basic exemption- Human rights
- human-rights violation relief organization
- legislative issues in the treatment of apprentices, students
- Problems suffered by refugees
- Human rights of foreign resident in Japan (The foreign trainee problem is included).
- Abolition of capital punishment
- Tackling a variety of human rights worldwide- Environment
- Promotion of ending nuclear plant policy
- the reprocessing and plutonium thermal use are stopped.
- The nuclear plant is not constructed in Kaminoseki.
- Opposing overseas export of nuclear plants.
- New legislation is done in natural energy and renewables.
- Measures for controlling global warming
- Securing of biodiversity- War-renouncing Constitution
- Holding fast to Three Principles on Arms Export and three non-nuclear principles
- The base is not made in Henoko and resolve the Futenma problem.
- depleted uranium munitions prohibition -
sas says:
I find breast implants hideous.
I always extend it to this sort of gruesome thought….upon opening the coffin of such a person, after decomposition, one would find a skeleton with these two silicone boobies sitting on top of the bones.
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Val says:
Another lesbian here. I find breast implants hideous and offensive. They stand as DD-sized reminders of how the P worships anything artificial, unnatural, and/or mechanical and how it loathes Nature. As for Sila, I wish her liberating choice had been a lot more Che and a lot less Barbie.
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kurukurushoujo says:
Well, it gets even better if you consider the title of her photo series in print: “Fire of the Orient”.
Frankly, it disturbed me how many people were willing to regard the conventional sexual objectification of women as “liberating” when a Muslim woman does it. Sexuality has become such a holy cow that everything deemed to be sexual is automatically “against the norm”. No question about who these norms benefit and why they exist- and if it’s really against the norm.
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Hattie says:
How to make a pretty woman into a grotesque. Very sad.
