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

192 replies

Jeeeez · 02/08/2020 11:33

There's a small rumble on Twitter suggesting this as a way of women showing our vulnerability and refusal to be pushed aside. And a shock tactic obviously. Would you take part?

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BaronEssoStation · 02/08/2020 12:39

Agree with tinsel:

This is Lib Fem nonsense.

JemimaShore · 02/08/2020 12:39

As I think everyone else has said: Protest - yes.

Naked - NO.

Why does everything seem to involve women being in some form of undress? Hmm

KrabbyPatties · 02/08/2020 12:37

Honestly I would support this so much

BaronEssoStation · 02/08/2020 12:37

Could one simply identify as naked?

KrabbyPatties · 02/08/2020 12:36

Women
Should
Go
On
Strike

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Jeeeez · 02/08/2020 12:36

Apologies all...I hadn't meant to annoy anyone, and it wasn't my suggesion in the first place. But I totally accept your points.

So, getting back to a (clothed) demo. Do we wait for the govt's response or plan one anyway? Is this the right time?

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IHeartSusanDey · 02/08/2020 12:36

Ha yes Tose. Many of them weren't too fond of Man Friday.

BaronessSnippyPantsofCroneArmy · 02/08/2020 12:35

I have been suggesting a one day strike for some time now, glad to see so many on board with it. Let's pick a day.

Toseland · 02/08/2020 12:34

No. But I would support another strike or march. If we’re marching I will wear my stick-on moustache and claim I’m a man for the day. Maybe if men realise thousands of women will just self-ID as men that might give them pause for thought!

BackwardsGoing · 02/08/2020 12:33

@BahHumbygge

Mass protest - deffo Naked - deffo not

If the reaction from men is likely to be "protest with lots of naked ladies? whoohoo! get in!", then it ain't feminist. Playing to the male gaze (even tangentially) is antithetical to the cause.

This.

Love the idea of a mass strike Iceland-style.

Bluntness100 · 02/08/2020 12:33

I think young women might be more up for this but they don't seem the sort nowadays????

What the fuck does that even mean? The sort to take their clothes off in public then I’d hope not. The sort to take action, absolutely they are. They just don’t need to do it naked.

SerenityNowwwww · 02/08/2020 12:33

No - pretty much why what everyone else said.

Fatherbrownsbicycle · 02/08/2020 12:32

No.

Thelnebriati · 02/08/2020 12:31

No.
A strike on unpaid labour is more effective, enables more women to join in, and it also lets women decide how they can best support the action.

IHeartSusanDey · 02/08/2020 12:31

No way. There are so many problems with this as people have already said. Women should not have to be naked to be noticed and given attention. If we were to do that, it would be playing into the hands of every misogynist out there who thinks we are only of any note if we use our bodies.

Men would not listen - they would mock and laugh at us and think how pathetic we are that we are reduced to stripping our clothes off. Every misogynistic prick out there would just think it is all we have! It would dilute our message...why, people would ask, if their message is so right do they feel the need to do this?

We need to STOP thinking the way men want us to think. They would LOVE this because they would see how damaging it would be to women's status and how beneficial it is to them. We hold up half the fucking sky. We are as human as men. We do not NEED to resort to stupid tactics to try to get thick people to understand that.

TinselAngel · 02/08/2020 12:30

A thousand times no. This is Lib Fem nonsense.

Pipandmum · 02/08/2020 12:27

No. I don't think it would achieve anything other than an opportunity for everyone to check out their bodies and no one will take it seriously.
Women shouldn't have to take off their clothes to get naked. Surely there is a more creative way.

Miriel · 02/08/2020 12:27

Absolutely not.

Women are objectified enough already without making their naked bodies the focus of a protest. Any reporting would concentrate on the nudity, not the message.

WendyHoused · 02/08/2020 12:23

Hell no. Women only being taken notice of when undresses is part of the problem. We only exist for male gaze or as males’ support humans.
Fuck that.

LuluJakey1 · 02/08/2020 12:22

No.

Bluntness100 · 02/08/2020 12:21

And as a pp said, you never see men doing this. Let’s demonstrate naked. Oh and let’s lie down and do it, so they can get a really good photograph.

It’s so insulting.

Kreacheriscleaning · 02/08/2020 12:21

No.
I’m not sure how seemingly showing that I am not bothered by my vulnerability would demonstrate that vulnerability and need for rights based around it.
Plus, it would just become wank fodder and entirely pointless.

The Icelandic women’s way seems better as suggested by pp.

SlipperyLizard · 02/08/2020 12:20

Nope. Why should women have to get naked to get attention? I don’t see naked men protesting.

MouseandCat · 02/08/2020 12:19

No way. It suggests women are only visible when naked. It suggests women must be sexualised to be noticed and will only be listened to when we have taken our allocated position of subordination. The worst, worst kind of 'feminism'

Lamahaha · 02/08/2020 12:18

@noblegiraffe

the yoga teacher (?)

As I read it, sex worker.

Quite. That had nothing to do with yoga.