Sunday, September 5, 2021

Where have I heard this idea before?

 

Bette Midler suggests sex should be withheld until Republican men stop oppressing women with things like the newly-passed (but already in judicial review) Texas abortion vigilante law. 

Bette Midler BLASTS the Republican Party and suggests that women should 'refuse to have sex with men' in protest of Texas' recently-passed abortion bill

Not sure if it would work -- but it's not an original idea.


The play Lysistrata by Aristophanes "is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace—a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes."

Even if it wouldn't work, I'd pay admission for the chance to see the effect of such an attempt on the menfolk of Texas.  Serves 'em right to go without the benefits of nookie for a few months.


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