CNN’s website is pitching in to emphasize just how important the midterm elections are, especially for women, but publishing a piece by writer Wednesday Martin suggesting that women could go on a sex strike to affect the outcome is a bit of a stretch.
"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," writes @WednesdayMartin https://t.co/hyjOMjyqUQ
— CNN Opinion (@CNNOpinion) November 2, 2018
CNN – a “real” news outlet pic.twitter.com/zY9MVZdh3y
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) November 3, 2018
We’ll give CNN a break seeing as the piece is clearly under the Opinion banner, but still. Even the headline is a bit of cheap clickbait that doesn’t really represent the opinion piece anyway, which goes deep into the concept of “service sex” — the man wants it, the woman obliges — and suggests, “It’s time for a revolution. At the polls, and in the bedroom.”
It’s time for a revolution. 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.
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Some women under the current administration may be fine with this paradigm, but they are fundamentally yoked to male desires and agendas, never to exist outside or without them. This basic and deeply personal form of degradation, in which even women’s desires aren’t our own, both reinforces and reflects a hierarchy where men matter more.
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See — all those suburban women who voted for Trump are fine submitting to the patriarchy and providing service sex, a “deeply personal form of degradation.”
Reading this tweet, I now know what a degree Women's Studies with a minor in Feminist Dance Theory is used for.https://t.co/4PmKS9d5rT
— M Beto (@bunchesoffive) November 3, 2018
But how is this even possible when the United States is literally the 'Handmaid's Tale'?
— Regs (@r3gulations) November 3, 2018
Clicked and read the article. Let me summarize:
“Being a ho is very empowering, and married women prolly have the worst sex”
Which is such a huge lie, along with most of the “Make yourself as miserable as I am and the world will be a better place!” crap that feminists spout.
— KeepCalmAndDrawl (@FormerlyFormer) November 3, 2018
Withhold sex from whom exactly? Women who are willing to withhold sex are not women who are going to be partnered with someone who holds differing political views.
— Augusta (@AugustaSgrbn) November 3, 2018
Gee, wonder why every study shows couples in long term, committed relationships are most satisfied? It’s almost like your third wave feminism is a lie.
— zone of danger (@mr_bovine_jonie) November 3, 2018
Thank God i have a beautiful conservative angel in my life and i dont have to worry about this nonsense.
— Jeffrey (@Elmonsus) November 3, 2018
I withheld sex until I was married, that's how I snagged a great man. Thus, no need to throw tantrums over the right to kill "unwanted" babies. See how that works? ??
— Wild Pitch (@thewildpitch) November 3, 2018
1) Not all women are Democrats
2) This is insinuating that the only tool women have to get what they want is sex, which is beyond insulting
3) Congrats on your lesbian dance theory degree
— Tara Hobbit ??♀️ (@TaraHobbit) November 3, 2018
This is coming from a field of study where seven totally made up papers got through peer review.
— Jake R. (@jaker1419) November 3, 2018
So now CNN is trying to get women to be mean to their loving husbands to get them to vote for the leftist progressive socialist democrats. That's just evil and any woman that would do that doesn't deserve her husband.
— Terry Hubert (@thubert52) November 3, 2018
What if men did? Really, I can't even identify with a person who would use their intimate status as a weapon and to promote such an act is ridiculous. People who are so offended by the comment made by Trump a lot of years ago are the reason society is so sexually confused.
— Frances Ball (@Frances03743573) November 3, 2018
It would only hurt the democrats. It would give democrat men another reason to distrust women and their nonsense and bail to the republican side where that isn't such an issue.
Plus, women that do that likely already do that to their men and those men wouldn't notice anyway.
— ThoughtStrider (@ConceptHut) November 3, 2018
Is this all women are good for? Sheesh. Stop acting like 14 year old girls. Look at the economy, jobs, there is SO much more. Most of the women I know are voting Republican. #VoteRedToSaveAmerica
— Rena McKenna (@RenaMc5) November 3, 2018
This kind of…belittles women, doesn't it? Hey, ladies! You don't have a convincing argument so withhold sex. That'll make "them" vote the way The Left want "them" to vote!
— Washington "Dr. J" Irving (@ThurstonDana) November 3, 2018
I’m so tired of these think pieces demanding women withhold sex for whatever cause is popular at the moment.
How about we have some pieces about how nice it would be if men and women respected each other and didn’t try to play manipulative games to score cheap political points.
— Michael (@RollCall79) November 3, 2018
Who the heck wants a partner that uses sex as a bargaining chip or weapon? Is this how lame we’ve become? I feel sorry for today’s youth. They’ve been fed too much hate and divisiveness.
— MisterE (@MisterE26011861) November 3, 2018
I’ve looked at the pics from the women’s march and of the soy boy demonstrations and read and listened to their arguments. I am leaning to being convinced this may be a good idea in that they would no longer procreate.
— ProudlyStandingJan (@ksbooklion) November 3, 2018
Any woman who uses sex as a political weapon is a sociopathic nutter who deserves to end up old and alone. Beware to men, this is the new archetype of crazy "leftwing" woman to avoid. Protect yourselves.
— averybird (@averybiird) November 3, 2018
Nice, the way you effectively objectify women here… No one saw that coming.
— Alan (@akb_WarEagle) November 3, 2018
Damn, CNN can even manage to make sex sound unappealing.
— John Purcell (@caveofjohn) November 3, 2018
Is CNN secretly recruiting for Republicans? With headlines like this it seems like it.
— Jomby (@Jomby12) November 3, 2018
This is the state of CNN. That entire paragraph is nothing more than word diarrhea. A great example of why you're loathed by the American people and why cupcake wars has more credibility and viewers . In what universe would this be considered a news network? Bizarro world?
— Darren Oetinger (@OetingerDarren) November 3, 2018
Word salad devoid of meaning
— Brave_Sir_Robin (@BraveSurRobin) November 3, 2018
I too know how to google a random word generator.
— Space Force Commander Hawkins (@stevenshawkins) November 3, 2018
Just when I think I couldn't read anything more stupid, along comes this.
Piss off with this.— Chrispy (@candyisyummy333) November 3, 2018
I too own a thesaurus and sometimes have to blather on to reach word count targets
— Brad (@EastAug) November 3, 2018
Sometimes the stupid is so monumental that you can’t believe it.
— Rando Gammon (@RandoThreat) November 3, 2018
CNN is pissed that President Trump won’t take responsibility for his divisive rhetoric and then they publish this.
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Is this photo shoot of naked Democrat women the trick to getting out the vote? You decide https://t.co/4UNcRsqZhx
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 2, 2018
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