Ms Marlene Schiappa was a prolific author and blogger before her career in politics. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - Can posing for Playboy be a feminist statement? A French government minister thinks so and has defended her decision to appear – clothed – on the front cover of the notorious magazine.
“Defending the right of women to do what they want with their bodies: everywhere and all the time,” Ms Schiappa wrote on Twitter on Saturday.The decision has irritated some colleagues in the governmentagainst plans to raise the retirement age by two years. Greens MP and fellow women’s rights activist Sandrine Rousseau, an outspoken critic of the centrist government, said: “Where is the respect for the French people?”
“Playboy is not a soft porn magazine but a 300-page quarterly ‘mook’ that is intellectual and on trend,” he added, while admitting there were “still a few undressed women, but they’re not the majority of the pages.”
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