Don't Sleep With Mean People

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 09:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Don't Sleep With Mean People Baba Brinkman via RocketHub A finalist in the Rockethub-Popular Science #CrowdGrant challenge hopes to put an end to meanness-with sex. A finalist in the Popular Science #CrowdGrant Challenge is stirring up trouble on the internet. Baba Brinkman, a "Canadian rap artist, writer, actor, and tree planter" based in New York City is spearheading a jokey campaign with a serious point entitled "Don't Sleep With Mean People." The idea is exactly what it sounds like: Inspire people to intentionally avoid sleeping with jerks. Brinkman cites Aristophanes' satirical Lysistrata as his inspiration: In the play, the women of Greece refuse to have sex with men in an attempt to stop the Peloponnesian War. Though he holds on to some of the satire, Brinkman hopes to do more than sexually frustrate mean people into changing their ways; he actually wants to prevent mean people from reproducing, which would change...

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