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Love the initiative, wonder about the impact, but please, get that lady to shave !!!! Shaving and bathing baby, shaving and bathing will get your fat ass laid sweetheart !
I’ll leave aside the comment about shaving, but do want to address the impact of actions like this. First, the analysis is not whether guerrilla theater alone can shift social policy, but rather whether it can help raise awareness. Consider the counter-factual: these people staying home certainly wouldn’t have helped, and because they came out, shot a video and distributed it, hundreds of thousands of viewers have learned more about the issue. Second, it’s unfair to judge the impact of any discrete action, as the relevant analysis is of culture as a whole (of which this is of course a mere part). It’s ubiquity that gives conscious art gains its strength — isolated voices are dismissed as crackpots, but when Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, John Pryor and John Lennon were spitting similar themes, they were hard to ignore.