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Women's March 2017

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by poindexter, Jan 21, 2017.

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  1. Moderator1

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  2. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    If Soros could just buy elections, they wouldn't need these protests/marches/partisan circle jerks.
     
  3. cisforkoke

    cisforkoke Well-Known Member

    I saw only one pizza sign in all of those cities. That makes PRESIDENT TRUMP sad.
     
  4. Deskgrunt50

    Deskgrunt50 Well-Known Member

    I'm not convinced either. Democrats are so awful at turning out the vote in midterms. And in local and state races.

    My hope is that this is the start of a new activation. And Trump seems poised to offer daily reasons to stay motivated.

    We'll see if it happens. Could be a Tea Party-like movement. Or it could fizzle.

    Today did have a feeling of significance.
     
  5. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    The movement is inevitable as Hillary's victory.
     
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  6. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    You sound nervous
     
  7. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    Large groups of angry women should scare anyone.
     
  8. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    At least it's not angry groups of large women ...
     
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  9. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    It's ok. I'm sure none of them are interested in talking to you personally.
     
  10. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    What about sales at taco trucks?
     
  11. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    Yeah, not my type.
     
  12. Smash Williams

    Smash Williams Well-Known Member

    It's been interesting to see a lot of my friends, who are a lot more politically active than I am, react to this. Many of them participated (for many nebulous reasons), and now they've got their backs up that, predictably, the more radical people they follow are unhappy that it wasn't diverse enough, or that it was a "white women's vanity project." From my centrist perspective, I hope it makes them recognize that the left's tendency to eat its own tail for not being <insert-ism-here> focused enough hurts far more than it helps.

    To them, it was an opportunity to take a stand against the acceptance of the types of language Trump has used against women, specifically in the past, or against what they believe to be the creeping normalization of what they consider to be derogatory treatment as "boys being boys." That when some try to blow off words or ideas as locker room talk that adults should expect, they think it should be looked down upon rather than shrugged off. Will that turn into anything? Some of them are involved in more political things or making donations to organizations of their choice, but others were probably like January gym goers.

    I didn't go, but I would rather chew my own arm off than be arm-to-arm with several thousand people I don't know. I'm not sure how enthusiastic I am that it will bring change, but I'm heartened that, unlike many protests of recent note, a massive, massive day went off basically peacefully. And I got a great laugh out of Ian McKellen's sign.
     
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