Ukrainian women calling for a "sex strike" against Russian men

[davidn3600]

A group of Ukrainian women wants to go full Lysistrata on Russian men, as a means of protest against Russia's aggression in their homeland.

According to The Atlantic, the campaign called "Don't Give It to a Russian" has a Facebook page and, of course, t-shirts. The group says they are calling for women to "fight the enemy by whatever means."

The initiative borrows its slogan from the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko's 1838 poem, Kateryna: "Fall in love, O dark-browed maidens, but not with the Moskaly (the Russians)," according to the news site Global Voices.

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Of course, the women of "Don't Give It to a Russian" are hardly the first to have this idea. Just last month, a group of women in Tokyo threatened not to sleep with any man who voted for a gubernatorial candidate who was seen to have outdated views on gender. In 2003, a group called the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace led a sex strike for an end to the Liberian civil war. And just a few years ago in Ukraine, the feminist group Femen called on the wives and girlfriends of the members of the prime minister's cabinet to boycott sex in opposition to what they called the prime minister's "caddish and humiliating attitude towards Ukrainian women."

http://jezebel.com/ukrainian-women-are-calling-for-a-sex-strike-against-ru-1551703363

[JimDandy]

1. It worked in Africa...

forgot which country it was though that the women did this in.

Eta: Liberia. Right there in the article... sheesh.

[daybranch]

2. hopefully Ohio is next

punish those who sympathize with destroying womens access to birth control and their access to abortion. Fight back women, you can do it!!

[Cleita]

3. Yeah, sure. Like that has worked so well in the past. eom

[Recursion]

4. People get the humor of Lysistrata backwards

The "joke" in Aristophanes's time was based on the assumption that women wanted sex much more than men, and the gag was that the men showed themselves to be sex-crazed after long enough, which was the opposite of the audience's expectation of behavior. The closest parallel I can think of is "Married... With Children", where the gag was mostly the idea that a husband being pressured into having sex with his wife was contrary to people's expectations.