Alyssa Milano calls for SexStrike to protest abortion bills, sparks Lysistrata2019 tag on Twitter
Actress Alyssa Milano, in response to new pieces of legislation intended to make abortions more difficult — if not impossible — to obtain, invoked a protest method with roots in ancient Greece: a"Sex Strike."
By Saturday morning, the #SexStrike hashtag was a top trending item on Twitter, though reaction to Milano's suggestion was divisive, with some supporting the notion wholeheartedly, while others outright mocked the idea. Twitter user @emrazz called on Milano to "Please stop feeding the narrative that women are providers and men are consumers of sex. Bribing men for equal rights with access to our bodies is not how feminism works."
It's a story that's been adapted and restaged countless times, most recently in 2015, when director Spike Lee moved the action from ancient Greece to modern-day Chicago for his musical Chi-Raq. "Mandatory vasectomies until you want to have children," the Westworld star tweeted this week."They can be reversed, so. Come on guys, Let's save lives! What's that? A hard no? Why? Cause its’ your body and we don’t get to make that choice for you? Ooooooohhhhhh!!!”
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