In the decision to arrest her, it would have been taken that the KLM Lounge is an international environment with different cultures, norms and values with regard to bare breasts. “
Beugeling thinks that argument is weird. “There are also cultures where everyone is exposed all day. As women, we should, for example, completely put ourselves in a burqa, because men have difficulty with bare breasts?”
In the Hoofddorp shopping street, mixed feelings are responded to the promotion. Some passers -by call it ridiculous, while others stand square behind the demonstrators.
Functional
“To be honest, I was a bit shocked,” says a woman with a pram. “My baby is breastfeeding, so it is used to it,” she adds smiling.
Someone else thinks demonstrating in bare breasts distract from the message you are trying to convey. “It can distract,” admits Beugeling, “but because you shock some people, the message also lingers.”
Yet it says that she was not the reason why she got off her clothes at Schiphol. “We portrayed the heat stress. I also had a sun hat and towel with me. It was functionally exposed.”