Women always have the right to say no, just as men do. Sex is never required of anyone for any reason.

It’s been a while since I watched season one, but I remember it being prior to their working together.

So why can’t they just doooooo it already?

I didn’t mean to suggest that 100% of women needed to participate.

In Liberia, the sex strike didn’t last for three generations. I’m not sure why an 100-year strike would be necessary here...

According to Leymah Gbowee, who pioneered it, it was essential. It got them the media attention they were unable to get any other way. They did other things too, like marching and sit ins, but according to Gbowee (she was on Democracy Now last week), the sex strike was essential.

This a million times!

Three insights I can offer from my teen years.

we’ll have to agree to disagree.

my thought is a sex strike would change the tide.

it isn’t meant to be longstanding.

Being pro-choice isn’t being pro-abortion per se...

The idea is that men who disagree with what’s going on but stay silent might start speaking up. According to the initiator of the sex strike in Liberia, that was the point. Not to convince men, but to get them to act on their own beliefs.

I’m guessing not all the women in Liberia participated in the sex strike. Doesn’t mean it can’t still work.

I think heterosexual women should do a sex strike. condoms plus other forms of contraceptives aren’t 100% and some religious types believe contraception is sinful anyway. Women should say, nope...not until abortions are accessible and contraceptives are covered by health insurance. If it can work in Liberia to stop a…

The need for abortions will not disappear. However, we’re getting to a point where they may begin to occur in back alleys again.

this idea is so widespread it’s ragecry inducing

I read the article a couple of years ago. I can try to find it.

I knew about Cheney. That didn’t surprise me b/c of his daughter. I meant GW.

This is a small ray of hope that we’re not on the fast track to hell. That there’s still some good in the world.