Ukranian Women Start "No Sex For Russian Men" Campaign After Putin's Crimea Invasion
So ladies... you know that secret weapon that only we posses in order to make men listen? Wives call it withholding sex and husbands call it a "low blow" in order to get what we want. Foreign Policy Magazine reports that this is the exact method a group of Ukrainian women are using to get Russian forces to release control of the Crimean peninsula.
The campaign is called "Don't give it to a Russian" and it has quite an interesting mission. One of the group's founders, Katerina Venzhik, wrote an email to Foreign Policy saying, "We believe that in the context of military occupation of the territory it is silly to continue to assert that all men are brothers."
"What Russia is doing in Ukraine is terrible, but the world sees their actions primarily through the prism of the pro-Putin propaganda," Venzhik added.
The campaign has expanded through the group's Facebook page, which promotes their profitable T-shirts with their unforgettable slogan. The T-shirts feature hands clasped in prayer and cradling what looks like a vagina. The design is accompanied by a quote from Ukrainian national poet Taras Schevchenko: "O dark-browed maidens fall in love, but not with Moskals [Russians]." The shirts sell for $23 and the proceeds go to "the needs of the Ukrainian army" (hehe).
Russian Internet users were quick to mock the campaign saying that women participating are "prostitutes." They don't seem to understand or want to understand that Ukrainian women aren't "giving it" and especially not selling it. Although several online attacks have been dispersed "not giving it to the Russian" is standing strong.
On their Facebook pages the women selling the T-shirts are urging their countrywomen to "fight the enemy in any way!" This type of boycott is actually very popular in Greek history. In Aristophanes's Lysistrata, an ancient Greek play, women denied their husbands sex to force them into peace negotiations during the Peloponnesian War. The founders were also inspired by the 2009, Kenyan women's "sex boycott" against Kenyan politicians who wouldn't resolve a stalemate between the country's political leaders.
Check out the group's Facebook page here to learn more.
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