Lysistrata

"We'll do the same thing" refers to the withdrawal of sexual intercourse proposed by Lysistrata to make peace in Greece. Athens and Sparta had been at war for many years, and Lysistrata, like many other people wanted a stop put to the war. Aristophanes created the character Lysistrata to represent the Athenian women at the time: they had little respect, and were used for sex only. Lysistrata called upon the women of Greece to unite, and they together would be able to make the war come to an end: they way to do this would be to refuse sex with their husbands. A sex strike was imposed, and the husbands of the women would [and did] get very frustrated. In a discussion with the women, Myrrhine and Cleonice brag of the great lengths they would go to, to be able to end the fighting between the Athenians and Spartans. Lysistrata likes what she hears, and proposes the sex strike. The women cry out: they could not possibly give up sex. Lysistrata is outraged at her peers and tells the women that it is their duty to end the war: if the men cannot sort it out themselves, the women [with more common sense] can try to. The women finally agree to Lysistrata's plan; they are also told to go powder, primp and make themselves look as attractive as possible so that the men will want them desperately. Not only does the sex strike have a great effect on the men, but the women are also suffering. The women are together in Acropolis [after seizing it to stop money funding the war], and at one point Lysistrata appears exiting the Acropolis, looking distraught. The reason for this is that the women are complaining themselves about the sex strike. A women runs out from the Acropolis stating that she must get back