fri., 6 july, 2012: to the new french beard, ii.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

FRENCH: La Barbe ‡

FRENCH: “Ils se lachent, eless trinquent...”   ‡‡

‡ )  Lit., “The Beard” = i.e., Basta!, Enough already!; “La Barbe” is also the name of a recently formed French Feminist collective started in Spring of 2008 (in the wake of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest in N.Y.C. for attempted rape & the perceived sexism of the French press's coverage), staging stage guerilla theatre, & appearing during official ceremonies or gatecrashing talkshows & corporate boardrooms, & reading parodies specifically prepared to match the particular occasion while wearing fake beards;

 ‡‡ )  “Men let loose, women pay...” = a Feminist petition used to rouse women to the streets, done all over France in Spring of 2012 

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