What paganchick13 thinks about Panties For Peace.

I also helped found "Save Chicago from the next 9/11, Bring Spam on your Airline".

I helped found "Panties for Peace" and I think it will prove as effective. Chicago has not been hit yet.

If you would like to send me your used panties (no granny panties please), let me know.

If it will help, letting go of some panties is a small sacrafice.

Anything that works.

You will not have any peace on the BS boards until you send me, Brightstar, some of your panties! LOL

More seriously, it is horrible what is happening in Burma and I hope it is resolved peacefully.

It seems to me that a responsible post about this phenomenon would include some information about the actual situation. For instance, something about the reality of the panties sap the strength of the generals assertion. Is this a common superstition in this culture? Will panty proximity be enough, or will the generals actually have to come in physical contact with them? Is there any reality to the assertion that thousands of pairs of panties will seriously affect the political situation, or will it jusy make the generals more intractible?

Instead, we just get something that barely rises above snark. Nice work, ladies.

"I don't exactly believe in the power of panties over the diplomacy of the United Nations ..."

And this from Broadsheet, even! What is the world coming to?

A lot of people doubted that writing letters to free prisoners of conscience would ever work, either. Fortunately, enough people did it anyway. If it were ever to work, the pragmatists at Amnesty International would doubtless run with it even if Tracy Clark-Flory's can't bring herself to.

Although it would be dark humor of a sort to read the caption: "After the first two hundred panties arrived, they gave me back my clothes..."

It's not unusual.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/naked.htm

Still, I can't help feeling that the silliness of this symbolic offensive makes light of a dire situation -- so I won't be parting with my panties anytime soon, thank you.

I'll send enough panties for both of us then.

You can sit around and wait for a solution that validates your own sense of seriousness.

I hope you find one. In meantime, at least I'll be doing something. And that feels better than doing nothing.

Still, I can't help feeling that the silliness of this symbolic offensive makes light of a dire situation

And that's exactly where you're wrong, Tracy, and why feminism has a name for dour humorlessness. Mocking, satire, comedy and irony have always been useful tools in combatting tyranny. As they say, laughter is the one weapon against which the devil has no defense.

If your self-image is too haughty and self-righteous to take part in a protest that's light-hearted instead of OMGSERIUS!!! then I will just quote Emma Goldman at you: If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

Tracy Clark-Flory, you wrote!

"I don't exactly believe in the power of panties over the diplomacy of the United Nations, but as a form of global mocking, the campaign seems promising. Still, I can't help feeling that the silliness of this symbolic offensive makes light of a dire situation -- so I won't be parting with my panties anytime soon, thank you."

Tracy Clark-Flory, it is so disconcerting to see a woman of such influence as yourself discourage such a harmless, non-violent way to make real results happen. Sit-in were silly, but they garner results. Bus boycotts in the South were silly, but they also garnered result. John Lennon's and Yoko Ono's bed-in for peace was silly but it garnered huge results.

Tracy Clark-Flory, you do don't seem to understand that the smallest of actions can be so powerful when the masses are behind the movement. Sending your soiled panties to Burmese embassies is a great idea, because no gets hurts, the totalitarian, undemocratic, Burmese Junta gets embarrassed, and coordination from women from around the world puts real recognizable pressure on the Burmese Junta to change their evil ways.

To further what could be a very successful, easy to participate in campaign, I would also recommend writing in permanent ink on all soiled panties "free Aung San Suu Kyi".

Also men could get involved in this. If your girlfriend or wife doesn't know about the free Burma campaign, then remind her, and tell her how dear it is to your heart, as every woman loves a sensitive man that cares about global women's issues.

Aung San Suu Kyi is the rightful leader of Burma, and it's time she was allowed to rule.

Tracy Clark-Flory, I am so disappointed in you. This is a movement that could be so powerful, and yet so easy to be a part of, and you comdemned it, only because you thought it was silly. Like as if you don't silly things everyday.

Permanent Mission of Myanmar to The United Nations in New York, United States of America -

10 East 77TH St. N.Y 10021.

USA

Embassy of the Union of Myanmar,

2300 S STREET, N.W.,

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20008

USA

www.embassyworld.com/embassy/Burma/Burma2.html

www.ananda-travel.com/UK/myanmar_embassy_list_uk.html

However, can anyone tell me if there are legal ramifications for sending your soiled panties in the mail?

You can send some of yours to be part of this protest, but please, please, please not the floral-print, lined, silk panties with lace trim. You look way too cute in those ;-)

Victoria's Secret (TM) has announced that it is lending its name to the righteous protest, and will open all of its stores during normal business hours to offer women a selection of panties to replace those they have sacrificed for the cause! And at a full 5% off normal retail prices! Hooray!

to make her point that IT'S NOT FUNNY!

Being a sex-positive male, and believing that separating a woman from her panties is a desirable social goal in general, I totally support Panties for Peace. I hope its mission will expand to include ending the Iraq war, and that Bush, Cheney and their Congressional co-neocons will be deluged in panties, hopefully recently worn post-coitus. Let their olfactory sense remind them what the important things in life are.