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http://www.thestar.com/living/article/800820--women-strut-th eir-stuff-for-boobquake Women strut their stuff for Boobquake Women flaunt their breasts in protest Is the Iranian cleric right? On April 16th senior Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi suggested women who wear revealing clothing are to blame for earthquakes. “Women who do not dress modestly…lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases (consequently) earthquakes,” he was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Boobwash! say tens of thousands of women who refuse to believe flaunting their breasts is triggering a world-wide Boobageddon. Led by Purdue University student Jen McCreight they staged a 24-hour protest Monday. Dubbed Boobquake, McCreight encouraged women around the world to flaunt their breasts and their cleavage to prove the Iranian clerics wrong. She even came up with some cleavage-flaunting t-shirts that she was selling for charity with messages that read: “Boobquake 2010: Who says science has to be boring?” and “Boobquake 2010: Did the Earth move for you?” But the truth is on any given day there is seismic activity. Did Boobquake have any effect on the earth? Apparently not. According to the United States Geological Survey website there were 42 earthquakes worldwide as of Monday evening, including a 6.5-magnitude earthquake southeast of Taiwan and a 5.4 near the South Sandwich Islands region. But 39 is fewer earthquakes than we saw the three days prior to Boobquake. In fact, over the last six days the number of earthquakes has ranged from 41 to 48. According to the website, on Sunday, April 25, there were 45 earthquakes, including a 5.7 near the South Sandwich Islands Region, and a 5.0 in Tonga. On Saturday, there were 38 earthquakes, and on Friday there were 45. Meanwhile, Boobquake creator McCreight has become a minor celebrity, doing interviews with BBC World, Canada AM, CBC TV and the CNN’s Situation Room as she proudly flaunted her cleavage. She was also named on CNN’s website as one of the day’s most intriguing people. Protests were held in a number of cities, incluing Washington, D.C.; West Lafayette, Indiana - home of Purdue University - and Vancouver, B.C. Some estimates suggest as many as 200,000 women across the globe participated. Some women posted pictures of their breasts on Twitter; some on Facebook. McCreight, who describes herself on her blog as “a liberal, geeky, nerdy, scientific, perverted atheist feminist trapped in Indiana” scoffed at any suggestion that today’s protest might be responsible for any of the earthquakes worldwide. She writes the earthquake in Taiwan was statistically too insignificant to count. “If we get many of a similar magnitude in the next 24 hours, then we might start worshipping the power of immodesty,” she wrote on her blog unless of she perishes in a “tank-top induced apocalypse.” |
