Tiffany Haddish said women should 'stop having sex' to fight racism and inequality

• Tiffany Haddish has a tongue-in-cheek idea for fighting racism in the US: "All women, just stop having sex. Everyone, just close their legs. Just shut it down."
• The comedian appeared on an episode of "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Fallon on August 17.
• Haddish said her comedy routine has shifted in light of the pandemic and protests against racism in the US, which prompted her suggestion.

Tiffany Haddish has a tongue-in-cheek solution for combating racism and inequality: Withhold sex.

In an August 17 interview on "The Tonight Show," Jimmy Fallon asked Haddish if her comedy routine had changed at all in light of the pandemic and fight against anti-Blackness and police brutality in the US.

"Definitely," the comedian and actress said. "People are always asking me, 'Tiffany, what can we do? What can we do to make changes?' What I've incorporated in my comedy is something that I think that would work, that would change the systemic racism, the injustices that we all suffer. I think the key to it is: All women, just stop having sex. Everyone, just close their legs. Just shut it down."

Haddish said that "wars have stopped" and history has been changed in the past when women have withheld sex.

"If every woman just said, 'That's it. I'm closing my legs until justice is served, until there is change,' then things will be great," Haddish said.

Haddish said that Karens, a term that has come to mean problematic white women being racist in public, will eventually come around.

"They're gonna be like, 'Look, I know I was talking crazy a few months ago, but I can't handle all this sex that I gotta do because everybody shut their legs. Please, let's make some change.'"

Watch the whole interview below:

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