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It’s an idea as old as Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (that’s a play from the 5th century BC, kids): women who haven’t gotten their way have decided to withhold sex from their men until the frustrated lugs comply with their wishes. In New York City’s Union Square on Saturday, a pro-abortion protester named Caroline Healey declared: “I think it’s absolutely valid for us to be withholding the Holy Grail that men seem to think is important.” Judging from the many videos that have surfaced over the last few days of green-haired, slovenly dressed, morbidly obese, body-painted pro-abortion protesters, there is only one response: Your terms are acceptable.
Nevertheless, Caroline Healey’s words were eye-catching: she and her pro-abortion allies don’t seem to realize that all too many men whom they count among their ranks are not there because they are sensitive feminists who are attuned to female suffering. On the contrary, many men stand with the pro-abortion crowd precisely because the easy availability of abortion enables them to behave cavalierly in regard to that “Holy Grail that men seem to think is important” and to move from woman to woman without any compulsion to consider a life of commitment and responsibility. If Healey and her ilk want men to think about them as anything other than utterly disposable sex objects, the answer is not a sex strike, but a return to traditional ideas of marriage and family.
American culture has moved so far from those ideas, however, that they don’t even occur to these modern-day Lysistratas. Another protester, Brianna Campbell, said: “If you’re a man who won’t get a vasectomy, even though it’s reversible, and you’re not out in the streets fighting for my rights, you do not deserve to have sex with me.” Healey added: “Why shouldn’t we withhold it if we’re always worried that they’re not going put a condom on, that they’re going take one off after we ask them to? If we can’t safely go out and have sex and know that we will have a choice after that, then why should we be expected to?”
Why indeed? But moral issues aside, these protesters’ worries were still misplaced. They were, after all, standing in New York City. The likelihood that the Big Apple is going to outlaw abortion is roughly akin to the probability that Donald Trump will become its next mayor. Before Dobbs v. Jackson and after it, it’s just as easy for women in The City That Never Sleeps to get an abortion as it has been for decades.
Related: Screeching Harpies Vow ‘No Sex!’ Unless Men Vote for Democrats
These women are selfless and heroic, however, not to mention stunning and brave, and so their concern is for their sisters who are trapped in pro-life chambers of horror. Another protester declared: “I cannot sit here and imagine what my sisters in red states are going to do if they’re getting pregnant by rape and need to not just carry the tragedy of the worst thing that has happened to them, but also carry them in the body for nine months. If this world thinks that they can oppress women forever, then we close our legs.”
Resorting to murder to assuage the trauma of rape is an odd palliative, but in any case, such cases are extremely rare, accounting for less than one percent of all abortions. Fully 86% of abortions occur because a woman reckons that a child would interfere with her education or career, thinks she is not mature enough to raise a child, doesn’t want to be a single mother, is finished with having children, doesn’t think she can afford a baby, or believes she is not ready to have a child. This is what the pro-abortion forces are fighting for: the “right” to murder a child for any reason whatsoever.
And so one Twitter user posted a graphic that said: “Women of America: Take the pledge. Because SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, we cannot take the risk of an unintended pregnancy, therefore, we will not have sex with any man — including our husbands — unless we are trying to become pregnant.” In response, another Twitter user wrote: “Finally, you figured out how not to get pregnant, that wasn’t that hard was it?” Ouch! Another woman wrote in an all-caps rage: “Women have the power here. No more sex until abortion rights are federal law.”
Women of the Left, once again: your terms are more than generous and gratefully accepted.
Keith O says
I’ve seen some of the “women” protesting and saying no sex till they get their way and quite frankly the only thing more frightening than the prospect of having sex with one of them would be the idea of waking up next to a shipwreck like Nancy Pelosi or a bush pig like Killary Clinton.
wpm says
With a sex strike they have solved the problem of abortion for themselves plus we can be sure that less idiots will reproduce a win win for society at large!
Infidel says
Wonder whether that strike will hold once they discover that abstinence is something we conservatives had been advocating all along?
gravenimage says
+1
tim gallagher says
Very funny, very clever comment, wpm. It gave me a good laugh, that’s for sure. I suspect that any sex strike by these clowns will not be very long lasting.
somehistory says
More voices like yours, Mr. Spencer, and these awful creatures might get a clue. Even with your wonderful response to their “threat,” I don’t believe they’ll ever understand what is the real issue….the life of an innocent baby. They are too selfish, self-absorbed, self-centered to ever care about another person.
Infidel says
If they refuse to have sex w/ men, I’d argue that somewhere inside, they do care about others – at least the men ?
somehistory says
The many lesbians among them pretend that men want them as much as they say they hate male persons.
somehistory says
If these sorry excuses for women actually kept this ‘bargain,’ think how many babies could be saved from being killed. Every life not given a start by creatures who will have the life destroyed, is a life saved.
Respect for others is impossible without some self-respect and these harlots have none; and that is understandable that they can’t have self-respect for one so disreputable.
Infidel says
Robert, I had no idea you’re that old! ?
On a more serious note, these hoes are finally considering embracing abstinence! Wonder how they’ll react when they’ll discover that we on the Right had been calling for it all along
somehistory says
Mr. Spencer is a fount of knowledge that leaves many in the dust. He looks great for one that elderly….well-preserved. 🙂
Much gnashing of teeth at the idea that they may have landed square in the middle of the best argument for not having kids they don’t want.
Hank says
” If we can’t safely go out and have sex and know that we will have a choice after that, then why should we be expected to?””
The idea that you can safely have sex “out there” because you can safely kill the child is satanic. There have been approx. 65 million abortions in America alone since 1973. 65 million people excluding their descendants are lacking. Millions of families are lacking.
Many singles nowadays can’t find a spouse and start a family and restlessly roaming around with the high probability of getting themselves into trouble. Could a specific person, maybe even a dream spouse, be among those 65 million people (excluding descendants) that have been aborted? Unfortunately, we can’t as in the movie “Back to the Future” change things in the past for the better.
The Supreme Court ruling against abortion may just be a “Nineveh moment” for America.
“The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”” Jonah 1
“When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.” Jonah 3:6
“When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.” Jonah 3:10
“I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
― Ronald Reagan
somehistory says
Well said, Hank.
rbla says
These harridans are not Lysistrata. As I recall she had a good cause; trying to stop the stupid men from fighting their idiotic wars that ultimately brought an end to the power of ancient Greece.
Wellington says
Seconded. Yes, a solid difference as you noted. Besides, I will presume the ancient Greek women were attractive as opposed to the vast majority of rabid pro-choice females.
somehistory says
And, regarding children and the way to have one, there is this:
“‘Deeply hurtful’: More states make it harder for LGBTQ people to foster or adopt children”
“Fatma Marouf and Bryn Esplin wanted a big family. The married couple, who both work as professors at Texas A&M University, knew they had love and security to give.
But when they applied to foster a refugee child under a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services program operated by the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Fort Worth, Texas, they were told they couldn’t move forward. The agency wouldn’t work with two mothers.
“They said you have to ‘mirror the Holy Family’ and I was stunned,” said Marouf. “I didn’t really know what that meant.”
’12 states allow state-licensed child welfare agencies to refuse to work with LGBTQ couples if doing so conflicts with their religious values, including Texas, Virginia and Arizona, ”
these two are suing the department and the Catholics.
How can these idiots expect to be on the side of the pro-baby-killers and then want to take children from others to “foster” or “parent”?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/deeply-hurtful-more-states-make-it-harder-for-lgbtq-people-to-foster-or-adopt-children/ar-AAYWQOf?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=d03d214c054341d1be86bf26
gravenimage says
There are certainly non-Catholic adoption agencies this gay couple could have used. This sounds rather like a set up to me.
Wellington says
This is sick. The people in the video above are mentally ill.
somehistory says
Did you read the tweet by Kevin Sorbo? Regarding “white men” deciding about women’s bodies and posting a photo of the SC Justices from 1973?
Wellington says
I thought Sorbo was a devout Christian and conservative, though I admit I don’t much about him.
somehistory says
I believe he is. He was pointing out that the “white males” who are supposed to “keep their hands off” the bodies, etc. with a question mark and the makeup of the Court when they decided the women had a ‘right’ to murder. It’s kind of ridiculous to blame White males now, when they were only a part of the Court, this time…and when roe was given the green light, they were all of the Court.
gravenimage says
Spot on from Kevin Sorbo. Thanks for that reference, Somehistory.
somehistory says
you’re welcome, g. It’s good to have some celebs willing to speak the Truth.
gravenimage says
That video is extremely off-putting for a lot of reasons.
somehistory says
I don’t like to have my photo taken. I cannot imagine even being dressed as they are…in private, much less in public and then never mind the activity in which they are engaged. I’m glad I don’t know those people…or anyone like them.
some of the videos from the past few days look more like some weird movie than real life people behaving in such a manner.
gravenimage says
+1
Western Canadian says
Only for those of us with taste.
James Lincoln says
Yes, Wellington.
They *are* mentally ill.
Get a load of that grossly obese “woman in black” at the 0.39 mark.
Ugh!
To think that they all belong to the same Homo sapiens group that conducted the NASA Apollo program…
gravenimage says
Your Terms Are Acceptable: Green-Haired, Morbidly Obese Leftist Women Call for Sex Strike Over Abortion Ruling
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This is one the funniest headlines I’ve ever seen! Good thing I wasn’t drinking coffee when I read it, or I would fear for my keyboard.
Yes, the Lysistrata treatment doesn’t always work…
Then there’s that video of women twerking for abortions, which is about as grotesque a concept as one can think of.
somehistory says
“Virginia Catholic Church targeted with fire, graffiti after SCOTUS overturns Roe”
FOX News
“The St. John Neumann Catholic Community Church in Reston – outside of Washington D.C. – had profane messages and pictures of female genitalia spray-painted on its exterior over the weekend, according to Fox5 DC.
The incident is being investigated as arson because an accelerant was used to start the fire, Fox5 DC reports. ”
It may be unrelated, but an elderly lady was beaten so brutally at a bus stop…same area, Fairfax…she died. People are out of control and exercising no self-control at all.
Like the creep who killed because the girl at Subway put too much mayo on his sandwich.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/63-year-old-woman-beaten-to-death-at-bus-stop-police-say/ar-AAYXamT?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=16b77c8903694f3c9f0
somehistory says
“White House cites ‘dangerous ramifications’ to providing abortion services on federal land”
If women make themselves *unavailable* for any goings-on, there won’t be a need for any other “options” that might come to their demented minds. If the only women getting pregnant wish to give birth, then problem solved.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-cites-dangerous-ramifications-to-providing-abortion-services-on-federal-land/ar-AAYXqsp?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=16b77c8903694f3c9f04119a28
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes! This is a much better way of keeping the Lefty’s from reproducing than abortion is. I congratulate them for finally having an idea that helps all of humanity. But of course they will forget all about it because they lie about everything to everybody, especially to themselves. Plus, no matter what they say about wanting control of their bodies, they have no self-control whatsoever.
somehistory says
No self-respect or self-control….only selfishness.
Andrew Blackadder says
As the late George Carlin said many years ago…. These are the women that no decent guy wants to have sex with.
Did you see that massively obese white chick in a small black ”bikini” at the end of the video screaming her fat head off, does anybody find her attractive?.
somehistory says
alligators have been busy in several states the past few days…pulling people into the water and having lunch. Perhaps