kenyan women set sex strike for peace

[niyad]

(lysistrata redux)

NAIROBI, Kenya — Thousands of Kenyan women vowed Wednesday to begin a week- long sex strike to protest their country's bickering leadership, which they say threatens to revive the bloody chaos that convulsed the African country last year.

Leaders from Kenya's largest and oldest group dedicated to women's rights, the Women's Development Organization, said they hope the boycott will persuade men to pressure the government to make peace.

Eleven women's groups are participating in the strike. The groups also have called on the wives of President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga to abstain.

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http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_12259087

[arbusto_baboso]

1. Wow. Shades of Clytemnestra.

Never heard of that? Google it.

[niyad]

3. perhaps you would like to check your mythology again. wrong story.

[arbusto_baboso]

4. D'OH!!!! Meant Lysistrata. I always get those two confused.

[niyad]

9. that is why I put those two words above the article. sometimes the old tactics are the best

[AnnInLa]

2. Oh, women-power

I love it....men hate it when women use sex as a weapon/inducement/whatever.....they say it is despicable manipulation. But for peace? So what? If the men are being children instead of men, then they deserve to be treated as such. Go Kenyan Women!

[foxfeet]

5. No peace, no piece!

Sorry-- it just had to be said.

[niyad]

7. you nearly owed me a monitor for that one!!! thank goodness I had finished my drink

[Terry in Austin]

8. Girlcott!

:hide:

Seriously, these women obviously know what's what -- good on 'em!

[vaberella]

6. African women...as crazy and wicked as ever!!! n/t

[lunatica]

10. This makes me very nervous

So now the men can feel they have the right to just rape their wives. And give them a good beating too, just to show the neighborhood that they aren't taking it. It'll be a badge of macho honor to show off their beaten wives.

And don't tell me this doesn't happen.

I just think this is a very bad idea, unless they insist that any violence done will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.