[lbo-talk] Lysistrata's Twangy Remake - Not a Strike, but a Lockout

[Robert Naiman]

It's definitely anti-war. (In the sense of wanting to end the war in
Iraq and bring the troops home, not necessarily in the sense of
opposing all wars at all times in all places.)

I had an extended correspondence with the people who made the video. I
don't think there can be any reasonable question about their intent.
(I realize that pomos believe in the death of the author, but I
don't.)

Sorry for the delayed response. I missed this the first time around.


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:50:59 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Lysistrata's Twangy Remake - Not a Strike, but a Lockout
>
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Robert Naiman posted a link to his Huffington post:
>
> > Lysistrata's Twangy Remake - Not a Strike, but a Lockout
> >
> > 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
>