Just saw that the U.S. Senate voted 51 to 49 against The Women's Health Protection Act, which would have codified a woman's right to control what happens to her own body. And it's pretty obvious that the Supreme Court is going to overturn abortion rights.
So men (-8 female Senators and -1 Supreme Court Justice) have once again decided what 167.5 million women can do with their bodies.
So, ladies...clearly neither the Senate nor the Supreme Court gives a shit about you. They don't trust you to make intelligent decisions about your sexuality, your health, or the course of your lives.
Hitting the streets is probably a good idea...but it also might be a waste of time. According to a story in The New York Times, "An estimated 15 million to 26 million people participated in the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in the United States, making it one of the largest movements in the country's history." * See any downtick in the number of unarmed Black men shot by police?
So I propose another idea. Less it be misconstrued, let me say up front that I am absolutely serious about this.
In Aristophanes' play Lysistrata, the titular heroine convinces her fellow Athenian women to withhold sexual contact with men until they agree to end the Peloponnesian War.
It doesn't take long for the war to end.
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LYSISTRATA
There are a lot of things about us women
That sadden me, considering how men
See us as rascals.
* Buchanan, Larry; Bui, Quoctrung; Patel, Jugal K. (July 3, 2020). "Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
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