So There Was a Real Earthquake -- Did Boobquake Backfire?
Maybe it's time to button up?
After an Iranian cleric blamed a recent spate of earthquakes on provocatively dressed women, thousands of feminists and proud skanky dressers joined Boobquake, a Facebook group in which they pledged to expose cleavage on April 26 to highlight the ridiculousness of said stupid statement.
Cool, right? Alas, it defies all logic and the laws of science, but the protest got started on the wrong foot, when a 6.9-magnitude quake hit Taiwan on the morning of Boobquake.
The group's founder, Jennifer McCreight, took to Twitter, explaining that earthquakes of that size happen 134 times a year. In an interview last week, our buddies over at Asylum actually asked her what she'd do if such an event occurred, and she was actually pretty nonplussed: "Tens of earthquakes happen everyday, so I'm not too worried. But if we do [see a big one], we'll know women have magical powers, which is kind of cool."
Holy mackerel, are our boobs freaking magic??
The protest will continue for the rest of today. Unless of course a 9.5 happens to knock California into the ocean, in which case, fine, we'll button our cardigans.
http://www.lemondrop.com/2010/04/26/so-there-was-a-real-earthquake-did-boobquake-backfire/