During the Otpor! campaigns, we Serbs were clever enough to realize that by putting the most beautiful girls in the front ranks of our marches we minimized the chances of the police beating us from the get-go, as even the sadistic security forces were reluctant to start their day by roughing up women. And by having girls in the first rows of protestors, we were able to create a physical buffer between the cops and those on our side who were most likely to tussle with the police—rowdy young men.
