"Bare it all for the boys", "No bush". 'Mistress of Undressing'. These were some of the words written on the backs of a group of women who had banded together to bare their all to the public. 30 American women amid steady snowfall lay down on the cold snow to spell out the word No Bush". Thousand of miles away 750 women in Australia got on their backs lying naked end to end on a grassy knoll on a private property to form a heart shape around the words "No War"

 

As you by now should have guessed these women got naked to protest against the war that was going around the world. Really brave of them to do it considering the freezing snow and possible tiny ants and bugs crawling in the grass. But i have always wondered why naked? How in the world are you going to convince someone to stop fighting by showing your breast and curves? Maybe between 2 men yes. but an entire nation!!! Doesn't make sense right. I mean if you have already decided to sacrifce your time, money career and a clean police record to fight for this cause why not do something that is more effective?Instead of lying down naked end to end on a remote countryside, why not the 750 women lie down on a road stretch which will be used to transports soldiers weapons and tanks and block ther route. That way at least they will be assured of some damages being done. like delays and wastage of manpower to clear the obstruction. 'NO WAR' across a hill? 30 naked women in Central park forming the work No 'Bush' No disrespect but i don't see how effective this action is going to be other than causing the police some mild disturbance

But an activist who regularly takes part in nude protests beg to differ. She said," Nudity attracts attention. Our target is the male-dominated political parties.We need them to hear us. They are unlikely to listen unless we get their attention. Nudity symbolise power. Stripping off the clothing that label and separate us, we then become united as a single body and this female BODY made up of thousands of simple female human beings want one thing now. and that is PEACE. We know its difficult but it makes a powerful statement. We are not women who strips off our cloths everyday for the camera like models or actresses. We are decent women self respecting women and the idea of showing our body to the world is an uncomfortable idea and at worst, absolutely excruciating. We can sign thousands of petitions but how useful does that make us feel after inking our signature? Is this the best we can do? i DON'T THINK SO!!!

Getting naked and showing our body to the public is of course uncomfortable and embarrassing to us. We are not playboy models and some of us have figures which had seen better days, but if this is uncomfortable, think how uncomfortable and embarrassing the pictures of our men blown to pieces will be. So by displaying our nakedness, we show the politicians we are willing to go to any lengths to have our feelings respected.

So what do you think? Pointless spectacle used by the hyper-sexualized media?Self-indulgent and exhibitionist? Or does the explanation given by the activist have some logic in it? I know many protest groups like PETA pay ridiculous amount of cash to beautiful supermodels to strip and mainly that is for publicity because the same models who said "_{^{NO FUR"}} would then go on to sign multi million dollar deals with fashion labels to promote their new line of winter clothings.and incidentally many of the clothings they sell would be made of fur but this is different. They even have an 80 year old woman stripping naked for their cause.These women are very sincere. They genuinely want to change the world. The question is are they going about it correctly. Will thousand of naked women spelling out anti-war slogans with their bodies reach to the hard-headed pro war politicians? I wish for these womens' sake it will

 

Note* This article i wrote was not an attempt at comedic writing. It is really one of the hundreds of questions i ask myself. So if my writing was not up to the mark please forgive me.