Mail Your Panties To Boner

[lame54]

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12615

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 2:37pm. Alerts
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We first came across the "mail panties to John Boehner until he cries and stops trying to defund Planned Parenthood" campaign when we saw this entry on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mail-a-Million-Panties-to-John-Boehner-for-Womens-Reproductive-Rights/166189526768167
Mail a Million Panties to John Boehner for Women's Reproductive Rights is going viral. Check it out on Facebook. I bought undies today and mailed them. They are white with BLACK hearts. Men can send underwear, too. They must be clean.This is a "mass piece of performance art" according to the site. Speaker of the House, John Boehner, H-232 The Capitol, Washington DC 20515

Then we found this article about the origin of the campaign on MyNorthwest.com. It attributes the idea to New Orleans artist Linda Morgan Smith, who explained:

"Mail your panties, jock-straps or boxers to Congress to show that we will not have the Tea Party fanatics take away our reproductive rights or any rights for that matter, underwear not not only represents our sexuality but the fact they can kiss our collective a--es."

"I just wanted to do something to get attention that had some humor and a way for women to take some action. What better way than to mail your panties? Boehner being kind of the anti-Elvis. You know how women used to throw their panties as an act of desire now its an act of protest and rebellion," she says in e-mail explaining why she started this. "These men are not going to push us around. So I thought this might embarrass them since they take themselves so seriously. I consider this a mass piece of performance art. I hope people will follow through."

There hasn't been a lot of press about Smith's idea, but it does have its own Facebook Page, which you can go to by clicking here.

On the Facebook site, "Mail a Million Panties to John Boehner," is this warning: "Please note, you must send only clean panties through the US mail, you can be prosecuted for sending dirty underwear! you cannot do it!"

We don't want anyone to end up in jail. It might make John Boehner cry some more.

[madokie]

1. He probably likes

little boys too so could I send him a pair of mine. Tread marks, the whole shitanshebang.

[SoCalDem]

2. send him tampons, since he's so damned interested in that function of the female body

Sample sizes..sealed of course..they can then be donated to a shelter:)

[DesertRat]

15. I like this idea better

:)

[leeroysphitz]

3. What if I go commando? n/t

[P. Galore]

4. I didn't realize folks still called them 'panties'. nt

[lame54]

6. i didn't realize they still called them folks

[pipi_k]

9. They do, and it's a word I could never get myself to use...

it just seems so....ick.

Every time I hear it I think of Jethro Tull's "Aqualung"


creepy. yech

[P. Galore]

14. Same here. nt

[seabeyond]

5. send tampons, send panties. fuck. we must really reduce ourselves to this

when in argument about our rights.

absurd

tacky and crass

no thank you

[L. Coyote]

12. Absurdity is a political weapon, on a par with ridicule, and reserved for the deserving

If a million panties arrive in your mailbox, you might get the point, that your own absurdity is being protested.

Make them own their absurdity, or at least realize they are absurd in the eyes of millions.

[seabeyond]

13. again, we reduce ourselves to our crotch in order to intellectually win a debate.

no thank you

[Demeter]

7. Boner Can Buy His Own Panties

[L. Coyote]

8. Please note, you must send only clean tampons through the US mail

[marions ghost]

10. forwarding

thanks!

[asjr]

11. Make sure they have already been worn.