In a monumental display of guts and endurance, the Price sisters, Kelly and Feeney suffered the torture of force feeding for over 200 days. They never showed a sign of breaking their strike and the publicity was heavy on the British to relent.

http://inac.org/irishhistory/hungerstrikes/chapters/...

In the beginning of the century, British (and I believe American) penological institutions force-fed the detained Suffragettes. The reports presented the practice at its most inhumane and the suffragettes used it extensively in their struggle for voting rights.

suffragettes used it extensively in their struggle for vomiting rights

D:

This reminds me of this comic strip I saw somewhere. A woman behind a bookstore counter is angrily yelling at a customer: "This is a FEMINIST bookstore! We don't HAVE a humor section!"