On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Robert Naiman posted a link to his Huffington post:
> Lysistrata's Twangy Remake - Not a Strike, but a Lockout
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> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/lysistratas-twangy-remak_b_45957.html
Robert, do you really interpret this video as antiwar?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cAChVVVZaM.
I can't say I agree. To me it was more like "I Love A Man In Uniform" without the irony. I think you are overemphasizing the rare reference to the war as disaster. I interpret that as more a symbol of her longing -- she's just so desparate she doesn't care what goes wrong so long as her boy comes home -- and for me, this is more than outweighed by the incredibly offensive routine where she asks the boys to "shoot me like a Sunni" (full of sperm). That's beyond anything the Gang of Four came up with in their parody. To me, this is not Lysistrata. This exactly the classic historical opposite: girls cheering on the marching troops by swooning over them and flashing them. This is history's main recruiting poster updated by Girls Gone Wild.
Michael