Earthquakes & Promiscuity
Wanted to share a quick story that seems to combine troubling fundamentalism, peculiar explanations, and a hilarious outcome.
It started with an article on CNN last week that reported on Iranian cleric named Hojatoleslam Kazim Sadeghi, who insists that women who dress provocatively and tempt people into promiscuity are to blame for earthquakes.
While the scientific community remained relatively quiet on the subject (either due to rejoicing from the solution to an age-old problem or due to the inability to get off the floor and stop laughing), the ever-liberated people of America put the internet to good use to create Boobquake, a facebook event to “help fight supernatural thinking and the oppression of women, just by dressing immodestly!” The idea was that on Monday, April 26th, women were encouraged to “embrace the supposed supernatural power of their breasts” so that Cleric Sadeghi sees the error of his scientific theory when no earthquake occurs on the day of Boobquake.
Unfortunately, things did not go so well for Jennifer McCreight, the self-proclaimed “perverted atheist feminist” who created the Boobquake Facebook event, since today (Monday April 26th) at 11am local time, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan, “no doubt causing thousands of Boobquake fans to hastily button up.”
No damage or casualties have been reported from the earthquake, which can only really indicate one of two things: a Higher Power’s intention to just make a point, or minimized punishment due to Comedy Central’s sacrifice of the First Amendment to pacify Islamic extremists.
