Lysistrata is about a sex strike, yes, but it's also about a women's uprising. And Peter Ronson (@Parenthestein) and Dan Ackerman (@DarnArckerman) are just the men to tell you about it. That and the nationwide attack on abortion rights, Chris Hitchens's long career as a snitch, and Nick Di Paolo's standup special that was too real and honest for anyone to pay for it.
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Timestamps:
0:00: Intro and sundry nonsense
5:41: The Nick Di Paolo youtube special
21:09: 2020 talk
26:16: Assault on abortion rights, #SexStrike, Mother's Day
Links:
The Alabama Abortion Press Conference
https://www.facebook.com/aldotcom/videos/2251199305130261/?notif_id=1557875720938923¬if_t=live_video_explicit
Nick on Louie
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x511l79
Nick's Breath of Fresh Air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aIdNexGjw0
Nick flipping off Muhiyidin Moye
https://www.thedailybeast.com/comedian-nick-di-paolo-under-fire-for-flipping-off-murdered-black-lives-matter-activist-muhiyidin-moye
Sam Husseini on Mother's Day and Lysistrata
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/05/12/mothers-day-the-obscured-roots-of-a-global-peace-movement/
Husseini on how Hitch plagiarized from him
https://twitter.com/samhusseini/status/1033549238603599872
... and threatened to sic the feds on him Sept. 24, 2001
http://husseini.posthaven.com/resurrecting-christopher-hitchens
Hitch the snitch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Blumenthal#Blumenthal%E2%80%93Hitchens_feud
#SexStrike
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1127040792281767936
It was Ashley Judd!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/03/27/ashley-judd-senate-kentucky-mcconnell/2026167/
Quartz article on sex strikes
https://qz.com/958346/history-shows-that-sex-strikes-are-a-surprisingly-effective-strategy-for-political-change/
Anoa
https://twitter.com/TheWayWithAnoa/status/1127453187303251968
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1127445161015894016
Milano's Biden defense selfie
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1112869883069382656
The Pledge
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1122227526443515905
Theme song credit: "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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