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| Lysistrata – Aubrey Beardsley |
The play Lysistrata by Aristophanes landed in my bean yesterday.Lysistrata is the tale of an heroic and radically creative woman’s mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata gathers the women of Greece and convinces them all to deny their husbands, lovers and fuck buddies nooky until the men agree to negotiate peace.
And it works!
I was fantasizing. Could this strategy work here in the previously good ol’ US of A? Ya know, could we women (men too!), withhold sex from partners who vote or even just lean Republican? No sheet shakin’ until democracy and some semblance of sanity have been firmly restored.
Restoring democracy – I’d like to start with eliminating the electoral college who saddled us with the incompetent George Heck-of-a-job-Brownie Bush and the current WH resident, the imbecilic (he reportedly has the IQ of an inbred tanning bed), serial molesting, tangerine psycho-toddler.
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| Picasso – Les Demoiselles d'Avignon |
No lover or husband shall ever come near me with an erection,and it gets more specific:
I shall live my life at home unfucked, dressed in my sexy clothes and perfectly made up, so that my husband will burn with desire for me.
I will not lift my silken slippers up to the ceiling,Lioness on a cheese grater? How poetic.
I will not adopt the lioness on a cheese grater position. (source)
In this all too real, offstage, nonfictional world it couldn’t work. Why not? Greedheaded, idiotic Republican men (and women) are, more often than not, hooked up with spouses who are either equally on the take or every bit as callous and vile. See Elaine Chao or Stepford-ish Calista Gingrich or the doormat-ish, co-conspiring Margaret Hunter or the spectacularly rapacious Louise Linton, or our very own Marie Antoinette, FLOTUS Porn Model, I-Don’t-Really-Care-Do-You.
Also too, if your Republican Party line voting spouse is cut off at home, well, there are plenty of courtesans, Jezebels and street corner hookers out there who've got rent to pay and aren't or can't be too picky about their clientele.
*sigh* It was a nice fantasy.
Lioness on a cheese grater? How poetic.
ReplyDeleteThe ancient Greeks were a highly imaginative people.
Unfortunately I doubt that a Lysistrata strategy would have the desired effects. If you think about it, the Catholic clergy has been (theoretically) in such deprivation for 900 years, and the effects have been decidedly less than salutary.
And even if Melania was on board, the thought of President Microshroomdong wandering the White House in a frustrated state is a bit unnerving. Not even the potted plants would be safe.
Hah! President Microshroomdong. PERFECT!
DeleteI doubt he's gotten any off Melania since their kid was conceived. He probably still has a string of porn models (who he's NOT married to) on speed dial.
I’d like to start with eliminating the electoral college...
ReplyDeleteI clearly remember way back before the 1976 presidential election various wise men and women saw how close Ford and Carter were in the polls and talked about reforming the electoral college to prevent a bogus victory by one of the candidates. Their idea at the times was to add 10 to 20 extra electoral votes to the overall total for the winner of the popular vote.
I don't believe such a reform would have helped Hillary. But in that case we simply needed all the purity morons and lazy non-voters to wake the Hell up.
Yes! As Jim Wright's always saying, if we want better government, we need to be better citizens – by voting and being smart about it.
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