A bit more lighhearted.

Tour de France is a big cycling competition in France. At the end, the winner get the trophee and a kiss from two hostesses. Fatima Benomar and her feminist group sucessfully cancelled this part of the ceremony because :

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"The award ceremony consists of giving the top 3 cyclists a bouquet of flowers, a shower of champagne, a winner's jersey and... kisses on the cheeks from two young women! Women's kisses don't are neither a decoration nor a prize, women are not rewards! They are sportswomen, athletes, break records, can stand on the podium and serve as models for budding heroines."

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But some photos on her Facebook shows that she went to strip club in 2009 and 2019, the year she started petitioning against the hostesses... In the photos you see, according to her value, far more objectifying and degrading act that a simple kiss on the cheek.

Obviously feminist run to her defense. "The hostess are on TV so it has a bigger impact" and "it doesn't count it is her private life", eg :

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It's good all the same, there's not one to point out all the same that there's a difference between sticking "hostesses" everywhere in areas where it didn't need to be and a disco with its striptease evenings... But hey... If that can relieve you, eh.

Trying to switch the debate from "objectification is bad and degrading" (as Fatima's quote shows) to "showing it on TV is bad", comparing a naked man being groped with a kiss on the cheek. This is a common tactic used by feminist, moving the goal poast. Note, that Fatima herself never used any of these excuses and simply dodged the subject. She apparently is not as good as her feminist colleages when it comes to mental gymnastic.

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It is even funnier, here aretwo articles against prostitution in 2012 and 2013 where she explains her point of view : https://fatimabenomar-wordpress-com.translate.goog/2011/04/07/prostitution-ou-pas-prostitution/?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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As the liberal maxim constantly reminds us , The customer is king. It is he who chooses, the prostitute, the service, the positions. Within the framework of this trade, the woman or the prostituted man can only yield to intimate practices ordered by the customer.

It applies to strippers, who are forced to accept touching and to dance in certain ways to satify the customers.

https://effrontees.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/cp-assistanat-sexuel-halte-a-la-marchandisation-de-la-sexualite/

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STOP THE COMMODIFICATION OF SEXUALITY!

Though it is different than prostitution, strippers offers their naked bodies to be looked at and touched by women, ie they sell their sexuality.

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Here is another article on her and strippers in a show for a mall : https://www-liberation-fr.translate.goog/societe/2013/05/23/des-feministes-font-annuler-un-strip-tease-aux-galeries-lafayette_905183/?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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The EfFRONTé-es collective was at the origin of this protest. Its secretary general, Fatima-Ezzahra Benomar, explained that she wanted to “denounce this eroticization of bodies and their commodification”

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