Alyssa Milano Doubles Down on Sex Strike: Women Will Be ‘Thrown in Prison’
Liberal feminist ignores widespread ridicule and pushes forward with sex strike
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Liberal feminist activists actress Alyssa Milano called for a sex strike" protesting Georgia's new "heartbeat bill," which bans abortion after a heartbeat is detected.
But even despite widespread ridicule, Milano doubled down on her the "sex strike" by co-authoring an op-ed explaining the reason behind the protest movement.
The actress even began tweeting out warnings to women about getting "thrown in prison" because of Republicans.
Milano, whose "sex strike," which was joined by fellow actress Bette Midler, called for women to get their "bodily autonomy back" by turning sex into a political bargaining chip:
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"Our reproductive rights are being erased. Until women have legal control over our own bodies, we just cannot risk pregnancy. JOIN ME by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back. I’m calling for a #SexStrike. Pass it on."
But the blowback wasn't just from the right; it was also included some from the left.
But Milano was undeterred and co-wrote an op-ed with Waleisah Wilson for CNN defending her all for women to use their bodies as a pressure tactic.
Milano then pushed the piece on Twitter telling women they could "f*** on" if they want, but warned they might be "thrown in prison" if they choose to abort their unborn children afterward.
"So f*** on! Yes! We’ve earned our right to sexual pleasure," she tweeted in the last of a seven-part thread.
"But remember, they’re also trying to take away our access to birth control. If you get pregnant & exercise your right to choose your own destiny & healthcare, you may be thrown in prison."
"Calling for a sex strike as a way to protest restrictions on abortion has sparked a powerful response," Milano and Wilson write.
Our reproductive rights are being erased.
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) May 11, 2019
Until women have legal control over our own bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy.
JOIN ME by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back.
I’m calling for a #SexStrike. Pass it on. pic.twitter.com/uOgN4FKwpg
Living under patriarchy has already robbed me of safety, autonomy, opportunities, and trust in our institutions. Now I’m supposed to give up sex, too, and play into the fiction that it’s just a bargaining chip/transaction for women? Love you, but nope.
— Kristi Coulter (@KristiCCoulter) May 11, 2019
I’m not punishing the man I love because other men are pieces of shit.
— Nikki (@SkepticNikki) May 12, 2019
And for further reading, here’s my op ed on #SexStrike co-written by @iamwaleisah. https://t.co/pbBItqAJ8M
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) May 14, 2019
Can u explain to me how democrat women going on a #sexatrike will get the GOP to change course? The GOP women voted them in and fuck GOP men. So how is not fucking dem men that stand with us going to help? Cause the amount of dem women fucking gop men is not as likely anymore.
— JEN, PROUD PANSEXUAL LIBERAL RESISTER 🌈❄️💋😂 (@JennaForTruth) May 14, 2019
look, this is really not that complicated
— Anders Eigen (@AndersEigen) May 14, 2019
abortions kill human beings
and many of your fellow citizens find elective abortion to be intolerable, because it violates the inalienable rights of so many of their fellow human beings
and the thing is, they're not being unreasonable
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"Sure, it's been a mixed reaction, but it got the country talking about the GOP's undeniable war on women. And let's face it, with so much going on every day in the news, sometimes we need an extreme response to get national attention."
"The attempts to treat women as second-class citizens have become increasingly brazen, and just last week Georgia Gov.
Brian Kemp signed the 'heartbeat bill,' which bans most abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy," reads the op-ed.
"The bill also allows a fetus to be counted in the census, and can be claimed as a dependent minor on income taxes."
The two writers put a lot of effort into defending their call for weaponizing sex, in part by tracing it back to the Classical Greek play "Lysistrata," a work of comic fiction, then citing a few more recent examples of sex strikes in other cultures. In the end, they argue, this is all about "power."
"Laws restricting abortion rights and access area targeted attempt to erase decades of hard-fought gains for women's autonomy.
A #SexStrike is another way for people who have the potential to get pregnant to call attention to this systematic onslaught and assert the power to change our own destinies," write Milano and Wilson.
"... At its heart, these attempts to wield control over sex come from a desire to reassert total control over our bodies and our reproductive rights. But really, it's about power. Whoever controls reproduction has power."
