American university student Jen McCreight created Boobquake to protest a statement made by an Islamic cleric claiming female immodesty caused earthquakes. (Handout)
In a science experiment that will surely delight teenage boys the world over, thousands of women have promised to show a little more skin than usual tomorrow.
Following the pronouncement of Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi that "women who do not dress modestly" cause moral decay that "increases earthquakes," Jenn McCreight created an indignant Facebook group:
"I have a modest proposal," she wrote. "Sedighi claims that not dressing modestly causes earthquakes. If so, we should be able to test this claim scientifically ... Time for a Boobquake."
McCreight called on women to wear their skimpiest tops ("or short shorts, if that's your preferred form of immodesty") on Monday. If the combined power of all that exposed female flesh doesn't trigger some teeth-rattling earthquakes, Sedighi will have been proven wrong!
Almost as amusing as the idea of Boobquake is that its creator didn't intend for it to be an actual event. McCreight, a self-described "liberal, geeky, nerdy, scientific, perverted atheist feminist," wrote a jokey blog entry about "Boobquake" and forgot about it. Then the Internet got a hold of it. "Holy crap," she wrote two days (and 96,000 Facebook fans) later. "To be honest, it started as silly joke that I hurriedly fired off since I was about to miss the beginning of House."
"House" will have to wait for McCreight's attention; she's busy going on the radio, arranging interviews for the BBC, and calming the concerns of worried scientists.
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Don't worry," she says. "I fully plan on doing some statistics after the event."
Normally, I'd say this is a cause I can get behind, but I think I'll stand in front of this time.
McCreight breaks it down
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The only downside here is that there are about 5 earthquakes somewhere every day - the USGS has a map that's updated daily.
This cleric can pick the biggest quake and say "told you so". Brilliant.
@Bruce said: "Normally, I'd say this is a cause I can get behind, but I think I'll stand in front of this time."
Now THAT's funny. I agree, let the shaking begin.
Only problem here is that more than likely the women who will be "letting the puppies breathe" so to speak or the kind of women you generally see on a nudist beach. Most of the time the people who wish to expose themselves are the people who should never take off their clothes in public i.e. the nudist beach example. Instead of Pam Anderson you'll be getting mosquito bites or sagging cow utters ala National Geographic Porn.
She's planning on proving that there is no INCREASED earthquake activity. He could also argue that it's effect is over time, and tomorrows event will contribute to earthquakes years down the road. Besides, the whole point is that the cleric is a joke!
a scientific test needs to done over and over to prove the results...I say we dedicate the rest of spring and all of summer to this scientific testing....and next year we dedicate to testing how it affects climate change.
Correlation does not imply causation. I thought Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi knew that.
"Boobquake" sounds like a good moniker for the Coffee Party.
"Boobquake sounds like a good moniker for the Coffee Party."
Wow, hysterical. Almost as funny as "Boobquake sounds like a good moniker for the Tea Party." Both jokes are stupid, but then, so is injecting politics when you don't need to. Guess some people can't resist.
when can we have dick quake?
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