Here’s the #SexStrike that matters:
Do not sleep with anyone who believes in forcing women to give birth.
Do not fuck misogynists or white supremacists.
Don’t have sex with people who don’t see you as a person.
Apart from anything else, they’re generally rubbish in bed.— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) May 12, 2019
Here’s the #SexStrike that matters:
Do not sleep with anyone who believes in forcing women to give birth.
Do not fuck misogynists or white supremacists.
Don’t have sex with people who don’t see you as a person.
Apart from anything else, they’re generally rubbish in bed.— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) May 12, 2019
The Politics of Abstinence
Today begins the great cross and clench
for the Guardian columnist
as her area shuts up shop in solidarity
with people who don’t want to be but are
pregnant in Georgia, Alabama
and places even further from Islington than that.
Tiny flying pickets circle
the entrance to the promised land
with signs that shout:
They Shall Not Pass!
or Dispute On Here.
Though you’d need
a magnifying glass to read them.
So far today, they’ve turned back
the former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan,
who, on inspection, was found to be
naked beneath his gleaming white sheet;
a guy called Doug wearing nothing
but a Make America Great Again cap
imported from El Salvador;
some dude she met in college
who used to like to
have his bum lightly chastised
with briars; the professor she once,
at his own request,
fastened to the bedroom door
with strategically placed
black leather belts; and the late
Anita Bryant carrying
what looks suspiciously like
an excessively sized strap-on.
For none shall break this strike
until it’s achieved
the far better ecstasy
of enough people in the internet
exclaiming our heroine’s name.
Ah, just a long-winded way of leeringly accusing a woman of looking for attention. Nice one.
indeed. i feel like kev thinks he’s getting one over the loony lefties here too without realising laurie penny is a massive figure of fun in uk left circles too.
Kevin frequently strikes me as an idiot with poetic tendencies
It’s Laurie Penny though. Distinct of anything else she happens to be she absolutely is an attention seeker.
both the ‘sex strike’ and this poem are dumb as poo
At least the supposed strike is a response to something genuinely outrageous and horrible, whereas this poem just aspires to be genunely outrageous and horrible.
Women living up to the age old stereotype that they use sex as leverage and bargaining tool
+ Lysistrata
Mind you, is “strike” the right approach in this case, it suggests temporariness.
Perhaps if men stopped doing all of their thinking with their willies we wouldn’t have to resort to the age-old bargaining tool of sex bans
Yes agreed, but you should know that in 2019 not all men have willies
Darn. Foiled again in our bid to bend all men to our will via wily sex tactics
That is such a stupid, sexist, “guess she must be on her period”-level, unhelpful comment.
Stupid comments deserve stupid answers Rob.
Such a pity you didn’t pick up on that.
how many white supremacist misogynists (not sure what white supremacy has got to do with this?!) has this pansexual genderqueer oracle had sex with?
Why is this all over the news all of a sudden?
Has this sex strike not been going on for years?
Sorry Bertie, the rest of us have been on work-to-rule.
Double time for Sunday morning?
I would have said slow as possible on a Sunday morning but if you’ve been on strike I can see how you might be in a rush…
Sadly, I was brought up never to pass a picket.
Even if you’re… self-employed?
If a couple have a twosome
and three people have a threesome,
well now I know why they call you handsome.
Laurie Penny is funded by the Koch Brothers to make the left look risible. FACT.
Once a Koch, always a Koch.
Poem is much worse than the strike.
I wonder if she would have a chance to publish if Rusbridger was still the editor?
I think it’s a ridiculous idea, if you are having sex with the kind of man who has these opinions you need to do more than strike, you need to upgrade
abortions for some, miniature American flags for all