Wives tell gangsters to lay down arms or go without sex

[T_i_B]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/colombia/story/0,,1871113,00.html

Gang members in one of Colombia's most violent cities face an ultimatum: give up guns or give up sex. In what is being called a "strike of crossed legs", supported by the Pereira mayor's office, the wives and girlfriends of gang members have said they will not have sex with their partners until they vow to give up violence.

"We want them to know that violence is not sexy," said Jennifer Bayer, 18, the girlfriend of a gang member. She and at least two dozen other women have said the sex strike will continue until their men hand over their weapons to authorities and sign up for vocational training offered by the mayor's office.

The women yesterday launched a rap song that will become the strike's anthem. "As women we are worth a lot. We don't want to fall for violent men because with them we lose too much," Ms Bayer sang down the telephone to the Guardian.

She said the men had laughed about the strike but would soon see it was serious. The women were not worried that frustration would lead to violence against them by their partners. "They wouldn't do that to us," Ms Bayer said.

[Kagemusha]

1. I've heard of this being tried before in other places.

Never heard about the outcome either.

[LiberalEsto]

9. Ancient Greece

Lysistrata was a play written about it

[WhiteTara]

12. And? Was it successful

did it lead to another Greek tragedy?

[XNASA]

2. But, if they're married......

....how will they have sex without their arms? :shrug:

[LostinVA]

3. Just like the "Lysistrata"!

[Teaser]

4. so much like it that...

i doubt it's actually true.

[depakid]

6. I guess we'll see when the song comes out...

:)

[Minnesota_Lib]

11. Life imitating art? If true, they probably got the idea from Aristophanes

[Parche]

5. gangsters

Lay down arms and lift up legs?

[Lilith Velkor]

7. The men laughed because they aren't monogamous anyway

I'm probably gonna get flamed for making a bigoted broadbrush statement about violent gangsters here, but fuck it.

[namvet73]

8. I guess that's the end of....

Stupid lyrics like:

Johnny get angry,
Johnny get mad,

Give me the biggest lecture I ever had,

I want a brave man,
I want a cave man,

I want a man that cares, really cares for me (by beating me up?)

Never did understand that thinking.

If you're not a Baby Boomer you might not recognize that those are the lyrics to a hit rock song of the 60s sung by Joanie Summers, who later got more interested in singing Jazz.

[NickB79]

10. They are gangsters, violent men, willing to shoot and kill people

They will either find new women who will sleep with them, or beat and/or rape their wives and girlfriends into submission.

"The women were not worried that frustration would lead to violence against them by their partners. "They wouldn't do that to us," Ms Bayer said."

So said millions of victims of domestic assault in the past:
"He loves me."
"He won't do that again, he promised."
"He was just frustrated and I picked a bad time to argue with him."
"He's changed, we worked things out."

I wish the wives and girlfriends the best of luck, but can't say I see this succeeding anytime soon.

[zonkers]

13. These gangster girls are either really hot or really delusional.

[oppositionmember]

14. Like they didn't know what kind of guy they hooked up with...

...from the very beginning.