Yay Lysistrata Gambit! (I read a translation of this play. Hilarious.)
I don’t think pro-life and pro-choice people should marry each other. Not a joke. My sister is pro-choice, her ex-husband is pro-life. They got married. She got pregnant while still in university. Uh oh. There’s a reason he’s an ex. (I think people planning to get married should ask each other a series of questions, and show each other their credit reports.)
Many conservative women are pro-life. I don’t think the sex strike would work. Most women who would be willing to pull the Lysistrata Gambit don’t live in Georgia, or the other states working on similar bills.
Despite the personal sacrifice, I will abstain from having sex with Alyssa Milano, in Georgia or elsewhere, regardless. Who’s the Boss of my sex life? Not Alyssa Milano!
Was it over when Alyssa Milano’s performance bombed in Pearl Harbor?
Who’s with me?
No, I wasn’t suggesting that she would get richer by withholding sex, I was saying that taking part in this kind of call for extremely simplistic solutions to complex problems* will play well among her social circle which is likely to be mainly composed of people accurately described by this website: https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/
I apologize for misspelling her name. I’m not good with names, as my username may have already revealed.
*like building a wall for immigration
Why were people confused? It seems pretty straightforward.
I’m sure Alyssa Milano knows that a ‘sex strike’ is extremely unlikely, but she’s managed to draw a lot more attention to this loony-tunes law. Mission accomplished.
Oh, insightful one. In which case, I was wrong about her and she deserves praise for knowing better than I how to use silly tendencies within the media to serve good.
Milano shouldn’t say things that could make it seem like she is trying to control what women choose to do with their bodies. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
I would think it is more like “Withholding myself from men is an action of body autonomy I can still legally do, which will express my displeasure at your trying to control me.” Me, personally if I can not have control of my reproductive choices, then I would refuse to have sex as my only option for both birth control and body autonomy - any attempt to induce me to have sex is rape, and I would treat any man as a rapist, complete with fighting back and legal action.
If Alyssa Milano was an elected official (like, say, the Governor of Georgia) and had any legal power to enforce her suggestions, then, yes, this would be a problem. But as long as she has no power to compel anyone else, then all she’s doing is exercising free speech.
So now that we’ve absolved Alyssa Milano of doing anything wrong, do you plan on doing anything about the wrong being done Brian Kemp and the Georgia legislature?
Exactly. Trying to control what other people do and trying to persuade other people to voluntarily join a particular type of activist endeavor are two different things.
And I don’t think even the Governor of Georgia has any legal power to control women’s choosing to abstain from sex. (Although I suppose members of the legislature could technically pass legal measures to decriminalize marital rape, which in practice would accomplish the same thing, at least to the extent that husbands would once again run no risk of legal penalties for forcing their wives to have sex against their will.)