Columnist Roars: ‘No Sex For You’

Addressing the Vatican’s demand that some feminist U.S. nuns shape up and other sins against the sisterhood in “this paternalistic political climate,” Seattle Times columnist Nicole Brodeur (photo from Times Web site) proposes a unique way women can be heard — one, that doesn’t involve the ballot box. How about a vow of celibacy, she asks: “It’s not a new idea. Lysistrata was a character in an ancient Greek play who persuaded the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands until they ended the Peloponnesian War. So until certain men start solving the real problems of unemployment, hunger and the wounds of war, maybe we do the same. You refuse to fund family-planning services, or speak in favor of such an act? No sex for you. You cut funding for women’s health, like breast-cancer screening, or say you don’t have a problem with cutting it? No sex for you. You laugh when a national radio host calls a student a name for asking for birth-control coverage? No sex for you.” Nicole Brodeur’s full column here.

Thoughts?