Bette Midler Calls For A Solution To Oppressive Abortion Bans Right Out of 411 BC: Lysistrata

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- Bette Midler.

Daily Kos, Sept. 4, 2021.

Bette Midler is embracing a very old idea to get rid of the oppressive Texas forced birth law.

- Lysistrata
Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. It is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying all the men of the land any sex, which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace—a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes.

- Tweets, bettemidler @BetteMidler Sep 2

I suggest that all women refuse to have sex with men until they are guaranteed the right to choose by Congress.

The cruelty of the #GOP is endless. We are suffering COVID-19, hurricanes, apocalyptic flooding, wildfires from hell, joblessness, homelessness, evictions, racial strife, and they pick this hideous time to pile on yet another shock to women, by taking away their right to choose.



- Religious fantatics' utopia.

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1. I'm in!

Although I don't have anyone who cares.

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2. anyone remember THIS from 2012, same idea as bette midler,

sex strike . same source .

https://www.cnn.com/2012/08/29/opinion/ghitis-sex-strikes/index.html

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3. Very interesting, thanks for sharing:

(CNN)... Still, there are some interesting examples of women achieving their objectives – which, incidentally, always seem to benefit society at large, not just women – after the sex strike was called. Whether one thing produced the other is a subject of debate.

The clearest case of success took place in the Colombian town of Barbacoas, where last year women launched their “crossed legs strike” to demand construction of a road. They would not have sex, they vowed, until the men managed to get a road built so that it wouldn’t take 10 hours to reach the provincial capital just 35 miles away.

Moved by the men’s unimaginable suffering, the government agreed to build the road.

A few years earlier, also in Colombia, the wives and girlfriends of gang members in the embattled city of Pereira said they would keep their legs crossed unless the men stopped the violence that had killed nearly 500 people. The murder rate reportedly dropped by 26.5%. But it wasn’t ancient Greece or South America or a recent sex strike in the Philippines that inspired the Togolese pro-democracy activists. It was the amazing story of Liberia that gave them cause for optimism.

In 2003, the Liberian people had endured 14 years of a brutal civil war that had torn the country apart. The leaders of the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace organized a series of nonviolent actions, including a sex strike, demanding an end to the war. The group’s leader, Leymah Gbowe, later won the Nobel Peace Prize, sharing with Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, another Liberian woman who was about to make history...

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4. Yep!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=15811842

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5. Vote and Run for Office

I wish that instead of encouraging women to refuse to have sex with men, Bette Midler would have encouraged every woman to vote and run for office. Voting and running for office is much more impactful, in modern times, than refusing to have sex with men. Females elected to office can vote for and against bills.

How many women did not vote in the last Texas election? Could the results of that election have changed if more women had voted and run for office?

It was recently said that there are 3 million unregistered voters in Texas. The Democratic Party needs to make a major effort to get all of those people registered to vote and out to the polls. The Democratic Party needs to make a major effort to get every registered Texas Democrat involved in registering people to vote, running for office, and working on campaigns.