Sex Strike
My problem with this #SexStrike
It feeds the narrative that women only have sex to satisfy men’s sexual needs. It ignores women’s sexuality. Women like sex too!
It is not something we give to men to keep them happy! This pushes an outdated narrative, please stop it.— Michelle Guido (@heyyguido) May 11, 2019
Michelle, please stop before you say something that ruins your credibility. Women may CLAIM to like sex, but you really don’t. You TOLERATE it under LIMITED circumstances and during limited time frames. That’s nature’s design. Please be honest now.
— Scott Gurstein (@PLAINSCOTT) May 12, 2019
I didn’t think dudebrah culture could beclown itself any more, but it seems that “ACTSHULLY women do not like sex” has become a thing in the grimy Futonverse and once again my imagination is proved inadequate. https://t.co/xghYdMltZP
— SnittyGrappleHat (@Popehat) May 13, 2019
What’s sad here is that there is a grain of truth–only a grain–in what @Popehat responds to. And let’s set aside that some men are lousy lovers. The grain lies in that society has positioned women as sexual gatekeepers with a double-bind: … 1/2 https://t.co/gBfFTQx1gS
— David Benfell, Ph.D. (@n4rky) May 14, 2019
They’re sluts if they assent too readily and prudes if they hesitate. If I were a woman, I think I might call a #sexstrike for that reason long before we even started talking about the taking of female bodies, enslavement really, implicit in #abortion bans. Too much bullshit. 2/2
— David Benfell, Ph.D. (@n4rky) May 14, 2019
Natasha Frost, “Should women go on a sex strike over Republican abortion laws? Feminists are divided,” Quartz, May 12, 2019, https://qz.com/1617531/feminists-disagree-on-alyssa-milanos-sex-strike-over-abortion-laws/
Donald Trump
Marc Fisher, “A riddle in New England: A casino, 321 acres of Indian tribal land and a presidential tweet,” Washington Post, May 13, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-riddle-in-new-england-a-casino-321-acres-of-indian-tribal-land-and-a-presidential-tweet/2019/05/13/dfcc6dd8-7354-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html
Fast Food
Kate Taylor, “Evidence is mounting that fast-food chains from Chick-fil-A to McDonald’s will be forced to add vegan menu items — or face the consequences,” Business Insider, May 13, 2019, https://amp.businessinsider.com/vegan-items-sweep-fast-food-chick-fil-a-mcdonalds-eye-options-2019-5
Uprisings
The researchers appear to have pitted non-violence against violence and compared the historical results.[1]
But the reality of uprisings is more nuanced: Few are purely one or the other. Edward Said criticized the emphasis on Mahatma Gandhi in expelling the British from India by pointing out that he arrived at the end of a centuries-long struggle and arguing that such a focus actually enables colonizers to treat examples such as Gandhi as exceptions and thereby to obscure a resistance that included both violent and non-violent factions.[2]
There are a number of possible explanations for the relationship between social change and 1) violence and 2) non-violence. But a reductive approach necessarily elides important factors.
David Robson, “The ‘3.5% rule’: How a small minority can change the world,” British Broadcasting Corporation, May 14, 2019, http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
- [1]David Robson, “The ‘3.5% rule’: How a small minority can change the world,” British Broadcasting Corporation, May 14, 2019, http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world↩
- [2]Edward W. Said, Culture and imperialism (New York: Vintage, 1994).↩