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CNN op-ed suggests ‘sex strike’ before midterms to help Democrats

CNN op-ed suggests ‘sex strike’ before midterms to help Democrats

This is CNN… On Friday, the outlet once dubbed the “least-trusted” name in network news for its rabid anti-Trump and anti-Republican bias, published an op-ed suggesting that women engage in a “sex strike” before the midterm election, no doubt to help Democrats.

“It’s time for a revolution,” wrote Wednesday Martin. “At the polls, and in the bedroom. And in our understanding of who women are, sexually and otherwise. Given the tight interweaving of economic and political power with sexual entitlement, female sexual autonomy has never been more urgent, and women’s sexual pleasure has never been more political. Let’s consider what it might mean to go on a sex strike of sorts — to get what we want, rather than give what we think we owe others.”

Translation: Withhold sex to help Democrats.

Martin added:

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Sex and status are linked. Where men have the tightest grip on resources and power, our society (including the women in their lives) will prioritize their pleasure — and create false narratives about what women deserve, sexually and otherwise. To wit: in 2018, the number of female CEOs of US Fortune 500 companies dropped 25%, to 24 women total among hundreds of men leading industry, tech, manufacturing, and other sectors. On a more workaday level, according to World Bank data cited by TheGlobalEconomy.com the US ranks an unimpressive 76th out of 180 countries worldwide for female labor force participation.

American women, particularly women of color, continue to earn a fraction of the dollar that white men do — 63 cents for black women; 55 for Native women; 54 for Latinas. Even worse, we are 104th out of 193 countries ranked for female political participation (beaten out by Namibia, Burundi, and Belarus, among others). These numbers are astonishingly low when we consider that the US is the world’s largest economy. Those who can’t lead or even earn on par must serve. And in America, in restaurants, in businesses, and in bed, it is women who serve men.

Resetting the balance so women no longer provide service sex is not in itself a comprehensive answer to gendered inequalities, of course. But making sex female-focused and female-pleasure-centric could begin to force other shifts in thinking in important ways. When we cease to consider what women like and want as foreplay and reframe it as the main event, for example, we begin to challenge, from the most intimate and private and emotionally powerful place, a long-accepted, deeply believed but nearly invisible world view, and make an impossible-to-miss statement about who and what counts. In the ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, the character Lysistrata urges women to go on a sex strike to get men on both sides to end the Peloponnesian War. In our case, a sex strike against service sex can be a powerful statement — that female desire, a metric of agency like women’s votes, will be heard.

Naturally, this didn’t sit very well with quite a few people, considering the tweets posted by Twitchy.

https://twitter.com/bunchesoffive/status/1058570458403164162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1058570458403164162&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativefiringline.com%2Fcnn-op-ed-suggests-sex-strike-before-midterms-to-help-democrats%2F


Good question, given that leftists think a work of fiction is literally a documentary.

https://twitter.com/AugustaSgrbn/status/1058542883203035136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1058542883203035136&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativefiringline.com%2Fcnn-op-ed-suggests-sex-strike-before-midterms-to-help-democrats%2F

Here’s a tweet I can relate to:

https://twitter.com/Elmonsus/status/1058533324820369408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1058533324820369408&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativefiringline.com%2Fcnn-op-ed-suggests-sex-strike-before-midterms-to-help-democrats%2F

We tend to agree.

One can only hope.

Then there’s this hot take:

https://twitter.com/OetingerDarren/status/1058703413834321920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1058703413834321920&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativefiringline.com%2Fcnn-op-ed-suggests-sex-strike-before-midterms-to-help-democrats%2F

Courtesy of Conservative Firing Line

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