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Tremble before Boobquake!

Join the Boobquake movement to debunk a cleric's claim linking women's immodesty to earthquakes and promote web-based activism.

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If you are a geek, a skeptic, or a man, then you've probably heard that today is Boobquake: a day for women around the world to show off their cleavage in an attempt to debunk a fundamentalist Iranian cleric who blames natural seismic events on women dressing immodestly. In other words, all that shaking and jiggling in the ground is caused by... well, I don't need to belabor the point. To be clear, I happily endorse both of these things (the cleavage and the debunking). But I do have one niggling doubt. Bear with me here... First, last week an Islamic cleric in Iran said that all the earthquakes occurring in that country are caused by women dressing "immodestly". Yes, this same screwed-up thinking that brought us the Taliban and the idea that burning, throwing acid upon, and beheading women is all their own fault for being, y'know, women, gives ...

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