(Community Matters) This week was seriously surreal – a Congressional panel holding hearings about contraception, the right thereto, and excluding even one female voice from the official, in-person witnesses?
I started suggesting in jest, that women withhold sex from men until this shit clears up. The more I’ve thought about it, the more awesome the potential expressed power of women around the world – of course not just sex. Moms extorting their sons, daughters scolding their dads, and sure, don’t underestimate the power of wives, girlfriends and other consorts refusing physical intimacy to men. Even to completely supportive men. The world, or at least the country, no sex from women for men for 7 days, I give it 14 at most – and the heads of House Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa (Boehner and Cantor too for that matter) on a silver platter like John the Baptist for Salome.
As I was discussing this with a few women yesterday, we imagined the power for women to demand the end of wars, the removal of Kings, Presidents, Bishops and Popes.
my friend Susan wrote to remind me that Aristophanes proposed this very thing in the 3rd century BC; his play is called “Lysistrata”. Lynn wrote to suggest all LGBT Americans should join the hiatus in solidarity, hmm. . . didn’t think anyone would catch this, grrr.
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