A topless activist with the Ukrainian feminist group, FEMEN, ran up to a statue of Donald Trump and grabbed it by the crotch. Reuters journalists were on the scene when she ran up to the statue and yelled:
“Grab patriarchy by the balls.”
The group took credit for this on their official Twitter account. If the statue is realistic, I’m surprised she found the balls.
Grab patriarchy by the balls! #FEMEN pic.twitter.com/WctiZFNWvq
— FEMEN (@FEMEN_Movement) January 17, 2017
Gonzalo Presa, head of communications at the museum, said:
“If they want to do this they should do it directly to him. This is too easy.”
From the group’s About page:
“In the beginning, there was the body, feeling of the woman’s body, feeling of joy because it is so light and free. Then there was injustice, so sharp that you feel it with your body, it immobilizes the body, hinders its movements, and then you find yourself your body’s hostage. And so you turn your body against this injustice, mobilizing every body’s cell to struggle against the patriarchy and humiliation. You tell the world: Our God is a Woman!”
This is not the first time FEMEN has protested Donald Trump. On Election Day, there were several women who went to polling places topless to try and get people to not vote for Trump, but for his rival, former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton instead. One of them was painted with the slogan, “Trump, grab your balls.” The other had “Hate out of our polls,” painted on her.
This is not the first time statues of Trump have been displayed. A few months ago, someone put out a statue of a naked Trump in New York City. It showed the President-elect with a very small penis and no testicles.
Look back at 2016: Naked Donald Trump statue appears in Union Square https://t.co/DJqIV2pjRS pic.twitter.com/eE1kN1pKgm
— DNAinfo New York (@DNAinfoNY) January 1, 2017
China went one step further and created a rooster statue complete with stupid gold hair and cheesy hand motions.
We will probably see a lot of protests like this over the next four years.
A mall in China has erected a statue reimagining Donald Trump as a giant rooster https://t.co/GAZaN4WyJV pic.twitter.com/16lDisgeER
— CNN (@CNN) December 28, 2016
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