Would you take part in a mass naked lie down demo to highlight the erasure of women's rights?

No way.

Who suggested this?

Far better to unionise and go on strike in some way. Sex strike perhaps. The polar opposite of getting my bits out for the lot of them.

Not a chance!

Well, I think that’s a no from us then. I’d be up for a protest wearing an adult, human, female t -shirt with a good sturdy bra underneath.

Wouldn't it be far more effective, and protected, to start a new political party that protects women, womens characteristics and womens rights?

No. Who suggested this?

In my case it would be “behave yourself or I shall be marching around like this and you will never sleep or eat well again...”

suggesting this as a way of women showing our vulnerability

Suggested by men, one assumes. Hell no.

Nope

It’s also absolutely counterproductive because women who would participate in another form of protest will not do this. We need an Iceland-style mass walkout.

There is nothing empowering about getting your tits out in a culture which expects this of women as a matter of course.

Not a chance in hell

Every body we see is “real“ for gods sake. And there are plenty of ways to see “real bodies” from beaches to tv programs, to swimming pools to even bloody readers porn. Any google on line shows natural bodies as much as it shows enhanced ones.

We all know what “real” bodies look like. We don’t need to get our kits off again as some weird protest. And for every man walking down the street in just flip flops and shorts is a woman in flip flops and a vest top. Of all ages and sizes.

Getting your tits out proves nothing.

No.

Yes.

We need to get back to seeing real female bodies. How they differ from men's, from our hips to our hands & feet. How they're not something to be ashamed of, or covered up even when men stroll down the road in just a pair of shorts and flip flops. We need to show our natural boobs. We need to make it bloody obvious that our bodies are incredible things that fulfil many functions and cannot be replicated with silicone, padded bras or high heels. You can see the true difference between women and men when they are unclothed.

And why shouldn't we? Because we feel shame? Letchy men? It will make transwomen feel bad?

Fuck that. I would take part if the motive was right.

No it’s a weird thing to do to be honest.

Maybe transwomen could go first 🤷‍♀️

Me, I’d keep my kit on thanks.

Nope.

Given the traction that CNN tweet is having on twitter (I’ve seen it coming up in unusual twitter communities) could there not be some campaign to highlight every instance where language has been amended to erase women?

We know it’s not just CNN.

No. Absolutely not.

No. Women already have enough trouble being listened to from the neck up rather than getting looked at from the neck down.

If I saw the protest I'd think it was either some wanky art installation or something like Boobs On Bikes in New Zealand or the WI calendar that they made the film about. (I had to look up the causes that Boobs on Bikes and the WI calendar were for...the only thing I remembered was the nudity not the cause).

Absolutely not. I would however, happily down tools for the day and go on a march.
Being naked to make a point like this kinda goes against the whole point of this! Duh!

Nope. No way.

Not in a million years

I am not into Raelism, I am not into Femen

My words and my thoughts are more powerful than displaying my naked body in terms of creating change

Also naked protests play into the hands of the opponent.

So that's a no from me :)

No way to getting makes and lying down.
I am trying to think of a mode of direct action which involves making men notice what it feels like to not be allowed to have
-control over how they are named as a sex
-any male-only spaces any more
-their reasonable expectation of privacy based on it being single-sex space they are in, being taken away and them to feel a bit shocked and scared if they become aware the opposite sex are in it.

Man Friday type of actions did this with wit and humour and in a brilliant non-threatening way. I’m trying to think of some other things that don’t put women at risk.

Adding another helllllllllnooooooooo for all the reasons given above.

I am not sure I would feel safe to protest openly anymore. That's not to say we shouldn't - if people want to attack us and take away our legal protections as women they aren't doing it with our best interests in heart anyway. I wondered if others felt similarly?

If men truly thought naked women were vulnerable how would they wank to so much porn or visit spearmint rhino? Misogynist men think women hold power with their nudity just because sometimes it causes them to get a boner. That this can constitute a "power" shows how habituated they are to the actual physical and structural power men hold.

I imagine a nude protest would titillate /disgust the majority, depending on whether or not the women met their tastes.

That said, women simply describing their trauma and explaining why they need rights is apparently "weaponising their abuse" so fuck knows what women could actually do to make men give a shit.