"The panties have this way of just mobilizing, energizing, inspiring," said Tasha Eve, a cultural anthropologist who co-founded the Axis with one of her best high-school buddies, Zazel Eve (as an act of sisterly solidarity, Axis members all use the last name Eve when they are in Axis mode)."
Here's something fairly similar:
"...When the pre-Islamic Arabs went to battle, Arab women seeing the men off to war would bare their breasts to encourage them to fight; or they would do so at the battle itself, as in the case of the Makkan women, led by Hind at the Battle of Uhud."
http://irfi.org/thepeoplewhothink.org/Women/women_in_islam.htm
I've got mixed feelings about women baring their tits/underwear/whatever to rile up demonstrators. I can see how it would be "liberating," but some women also bare their goods to cheer on jock-thugs in football teams, or worse. These women may feel "liberated" too, individually, but it seems like there could be problems with this, from a feminist/left-libertarian viewpoint. Me, I'm not certain which way I lean on it.
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