-Caveat Lector- It is from an old comic book featuring the Freak Brothers. It was sage advice from the Freak Brothers. I had the phrase blazoned across t'shirts in college.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/freakbros/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 11:24 AM Subject: [CTRL] Fighting for peace is like f*cking for virginity > -Caveat Lector- > > http://everything2.com/?node_id=1350318 > > Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity > > "FIGHTING FOR PEACE IS LIKE F__KING FOR VIRGINITY" > > I had this on a t-shirt I found in Jerusalem's [12]Old City when I was > a teenager. It was by far my most successful [13]punk t-shirt, meaning > that out of all my ragged clothes, this was the garment most likely to > get me into a fight. You wore a t-shirt like that in Israel back then, > you were just [14]asking for it. The only thing that saved me from > constantly wearing a bloody pulp for a face was the fact that most > people who really strongly objected to that kind of sentiment didn't > read English well enough to catch it. But a lot of them did. > > Ironic, isn't it? You wear a shirt calling for peace, you get into > fights. I tried [15]passive resistance, but found out the hard way > that passive resistance gets you hurt more. It didn't matter, anyway. > I wasn't trying for [16]consistency. Have you ever met a punk with a > consistent belief system [17]that he actually followed? > > Eventually I decided the shirt had to go. It had earned me enough > [18]credibility already, and I was getting pretty tired of wearing an > invitation to rumble. No matter how many fights I got into, I never > did learn to fight properly, and there just weren't enough punks in > Israel to provide any kind of [19]group safety for me. I gave the > shirt to some girl from the [20]Peace Now! movement, figuring no one > would beat up a girl because of her shirt. She would use it better > than I had, and I really did get into less fights after that. Ripped > up "Bauhaus" and "Meteors" t-shirts just don't have that same > punch-me-now effect. > > Of course, [21]I had no idea where the slogan came from. I assumed it > was [22]Vietnam. All the really good quotes came from Vietnam, as we > all knew. > > Fast-forward sixteen or so years, I still see the slogan pop up from > time to time. You can see it on protestors' signs sometimes. It's even > begun to morph. I've seen a less elegant version, "fighting for WORLD > peace is like fucking for virginity". And, of course, no one ever > knows where it came from. I've tried to dig up the source. Various > websites attribute it to one [23]Emma S. Riches, but none of them > state who she was. [24]Vietnam protests are still looking like the > likeliest source for this phrase. > > As numerous people have pointed out, this is one of the crudest > slogans popularized by modern culture. Less abrasive and more eloquent > alternatives have been suggested and debated by various intellectuals. > [25]Albert Camus came up with "[26]There are causes worth dying for, > but none worth killing for". Another [27]Albert said "[28]You cannot > simultaneously prevent and prepare for war". And [29]Martin Luther > King had the best of them all: "[30]War is a poor chisel to carve out > tomorrows". > > But for all their elegance, nothing beats the [31]bite of this phrase. > It's good because it's so crude. It grabs people's attention and > sticks in their memories like no elegantly polished phrase ever could. > Say it with me now: "FIGHTING FOR PEACE IS LIKE FUCKING FOR > VIRGINITY". It works on all sorts of levels. And it's true, too. > _________________________________________________________________ > > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER > ========== > CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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