Women Surround Crying Mom Whose Toddler Was Having A Meltdown At The Airport.

[Martin Eden]

80. Lysistrata was the basis for the recent Spike Lee film Chi-Raq

I didn't see the movie, yet.

Regarding your last paragraph:
As a result of what the women propose, the women in the play end of governing. It is a "comedy" but in my opinion would really work to stop war. Women do negotiate in a different way than men.

I'm pretty sure you meant end up governing.

This reminds me of the little speech by Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, which I recently viewed again.

AL: Whatsa matter, Ma? Gettin’ scared?

MA: No. Ain’t ever gonna be scared no more.

(After a pause)I was, though. For a while I thought we was beat–*good* an’ beat. Looked like we didn’t have nothin’ in the worl’ but enemies–wasn’t nobody frien’ly anymore. It made me feel bad an’ scared too–like we was lost… an’ nobody cared.

AL: Watch me pass that Chevvy.

PA: You the one that keeps us goin’, Ma. I ain’t no good any more, an’ I know it. Seems like I spen’ all my time these days a-thinkin’ how it use’ta be–thinkin’ of home–an’ I ain’t never gonna see it no more.

MA: Woman can change better’n a man. Man lives in jerks–baby born, or somebody dies, that’s a jerk–gets a farm, or loses one, an’ that’s a jerk. With a woman it’s all one flow, like a stream, little eddies, little waterfalls, but the river it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that.

AL: Look at that ol’ coffeepot steam!

PA: Maybe, but we shore takin’ a beatin’.

MA:chuckling: I know. Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an’ they die, an’ their kids ain’t no good, an’ they die out. But we keep a-comin’. We’re the people that live. Can’t nobody wipe us out. Can’t nobody lick us. We’ll go on forever, Pa.

We’re the people.