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packman

(16,296 posts)
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 12:03 PM Jun 2022

Consider the Lysistrata women approach

A bit dated, but still--



Aristophanes’ Lysistrata was first staged in Athens over 24 centuries ago, yet its famous plot has cast a long shadow. In the play, an Athenian woman named Lysistrata organizes a Panhellenic league of wives and successfully convinces them to deny their husbands sex until the men agree to end the protracted Peloponnesian War. This heavily absurd—yet still quite amusing—comedic plot resurfaces periodically (in both life and art) as a genuine call to action. Its latest incarnation is Alyssa Milano’s attempt (on Twitter and in a subsequent op-ed) to rally American women to a nationwide sex strike. Her call came in the wake of Georgia governor Brian Kemp signing a fetal “heartbeat” bill that would essentially outlaw abortion in the state, which was shortly followed by an Alabama law that bans abortion outright, including in cases of rape or incest. These laws have as their ultimate goal the toppling of Roe v. Wade.

https://electricliterature.com/the-original-sex-strike-was-a-farce-and-this-one-is-too/

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Consider the Lysistrata women approach (Original Post) packman Jun 2022 OP
Or at least until they get a vasectomy nt Geechie Jun 2022 #1
I've said it before and I'll say it again... The Unmitigated Gall Jun 2022 #2

The Unmitigated Gall

(3,797 posts)
2. I've said it before and I'll say it again...
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 01:14 PM
Jun 2022

Bars, pubs and other traditional meeting places should be nothing but dudes looking at each other...across the country, but especially in the handmaid states.

Maybe also women taking down their profiles on all internet dating sites. Dude-Bro does a search...nuthin'. Too bad, so sad.

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