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

[Jeeeez]

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?

[Melroses]

No

Getting noticed because you have no clothes on does not translate into anyone listening to what you have to say.

Especially for women. It might work for men?

[Quillink]

Nope. What sort of message would that send to our daughters? Take your clothes off to get noticed, just like they hear everywhere else in our pornified culture? We are worthy of being listened to with our clothes on thanks very much

[Alienin]

Not on your nelly

[Graffitiqueen]

No

[Novina]

No.

Women should be able to stand up for their rights, to make political arguments, to be taken seriously without having to be naked. FFS.

[DialSquare]

I would say definitely not, however, in my case, it could be used as a torture tactic. Start listening to us and I'll put my clothes back on!

[NiceGerbil]

No for all the reasons given

[thehumanformerlyknownasfemale]

@DialSquare

I would say definitely not, however, in my case, it could be used as a torture tactic. Start listening to us and I'll put my clothes back on!

That made me chuckle!

[rednsparkley]

@Floisme

Are you having a laugh? I wish to choose which men can see me naked, which is why I support retaining single sex spaces. I cannot believe I need to explain this.

This, exactly this.

[Durgasarrow]

Never never never.

[Sittinonthefloor]

No! Why the hell would I do something that would make me so vulnerable to abuse online, damage my career, embarrass my dcs and make me cold. It’s the opposite of a feminist act imo.

[ScrimpshawTheSecond]

No. Bloody silly idea.

[Bluntness100]

If it wouldn’t be a shameful women against women demonstration, and make it worse, I’d suggest we stand up and protest anyone stupid enough to get their tits out like this and try to pretend it’s about progressing women’s causes whilst doing the exact opposite, setting us back decades.

That we should protest it and tell them we have self respect and our words are enough. We don’t need to show t&a.

But that would just make the whole spectacle worse, I would sincerely hope anyone going on social media urging women to get their kits off and their tits out like this gets shot down as the women on this thread are standing up and practically unanimously doing.

I honestly can’t believe anyone in this day and age is still urging women to get their tits out to be heard. It’s just nauseating.

[slinger888]

no

[SerenityNowwwww]

Ever seen a naked man protest?

[wellbehavedwomen]

@Bluntness100

This sort of shit sets women back decades and the fools who suggest it should be deeply ashamed,

You don’t see men saying, oh I know, let’s get our cocks out and protest, they manage to do it with their cocks fully covered..

But there is always some one suggesting women get their tits out to do it. Always.

At what point in time will this shit stop? When will it stop being suggested we get our tits out to make a statement? Because most women are pig sick of this fucking suggestion that we need to show some t&a to get our issues taken seriously.

The whole thing is so contradictory. Want to be taken seriously girls? Get yer tits out. That’ll do it.

Like hell it will. This stuff needs to stop. Now.

This.

[JamieLeeCurtains]

Man Friday really got a lot of backs up, didn't they? Maybe a mass Man Friday as pp suggested. Self-IDing as men could also involve not having time to do wifework, Iceland-style.

[stillathing]

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.

[Silencia]

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?

[ChattyLion]

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.

[hoodathunkit]

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 :)

[Beamur]

Nope. No way.

[Beeorwasp]

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!

[powershowerforanhour]

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).

[LangClegTheBeardedVulture]

No. Absolutely not.