By Donna Zuckerberg Donna Zuckerberg is a Silicon Valley-based classics scholar and the author of “Not All Dead White Men.” She is editor in chief of the online classics publication Eidolon. May 17 at 10:38 AM Actress Alyssa Milano this month called for an unusual response to the surge in state-level efforts to restrict abortion rights: withholding sex to exert political leverage. Milano tweeted : “Until women have legal control over our own bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy.
Since then, sex strikes have sometimes reappeared in political history, often in radically different social circumstances. The play has been studied and performed for two and half millennia, but until the 20th century, it was considered too raunchy to be translated into English by any but the bravest translators.
As Milano mentioned in her CNN article, sex strikes have been attempted at various points in history, although evidence of their effectiveness is shakier than she lets on. She cites an effort by Iroquois women “in the 1600s” to stop “unregulated warfare” against other tribes, and a 19-day “crossed-legs strike” in 2011 in Barbacoas, Colombia, to get a much-needed road built, among other episodes.
In an extended metaphor in the middle of the comedy, Lysistrata likens statecraft to weaving, as a way of explaining that women are well suited to politics. That was a progressive sentiment when women couldn’t vote. But it’s hard to see Lysistrata as truly radical when her mode of activism confirms and strengthens social norms about gendered behavior.
Lefty regressive women like Alyssa Milano are calling for women to join their little 'SexStrike' campaign to protest abortion laws. What's next? These emotionalreasoning chicks calling for a 'BringingOnTheTears' campaign? or the 'You-Should-Know-What's-Bothering-Me' campaign?
Liberal women love Islam so much they decided to copy it's SexStrike. Withholding sex is prescriptive in Islam. Men are to punish misbehaving wives by 1st withholding sex from them. Then if that doesn't work they're to beat them. So men of liberal women, consider yourself warned
Yeah. Whinging about 'patriarchal power'. And the notion of commoditizing sex this way essentially reduces all women to the status of 'whore'. 'Do what I want and I will 'pay' you.' That REALLY doesn't work in a world with 3+ BILLION women.
Illicit sex is not anybody's right in any religion.
Sex strike?
Why are all the sex strikers butt ugly though?
I’m sorry but this whole sex strike thing is irritating as hell. It’s a fundamentally unserious response to a serious attack on women’s rights yeah maybe some women get to feel edgy and empowered and that’s about it; Alabama women are still being screwed over get serious
...42% of America is hard pro choice...38 % is hard pro life...the rest is in the middle. This 'sex strike' is only going to effect the beta males that already beg for sex from the hard pro choice.
A strike no one cares about
The two aren't mutually exclusive. Women's rights are often curtailed due to patriarchal power. Many men in power are misogynistic assholes.
Women are gonna become obsolete with these fantastic new sex robots
Perspective chastity belts
Brb picking up my eyes because they rolled out of my head
You do realize men know how to beat off right?
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