The Women's Convention in Detroit Was a Feast of Microaggression

The Weekly Standard ^ | November 6, 2017 | Alice B. Lloyd

[2ndDivisionVet]

The pink knit cap made famous by last winter’s Women’s March on Washington is already an anachronism. Not more than a couple dozen or so of the eye-catching toppers bobbed among the 4,000 or so activists attending “Women’s March Presents: The Inaugural Women’s Convention.” And those few “pussy hats” stuck out like embarrassing artifacts, reminders of the high hopes many on the left held for an anti-Trump feminist revival just 10 months ago.

These three days at Detroit’s Cobo Center are billed as a chance to “Reclaim Our Time” and “March On” in the momentous spirit of the post-inaugural protests. But the urgency of liberal strategizing for the 2018 midterms comes in a distant second to collective soul-searching. Intersectionality, the central tenet of today’s women’s movement, asks white women to cede their social power to minorities. With its emphasis on exposing “microaggressions,” intersectional feminism undercuts political unity.

The rift between the feminist left and the Sandernista further-left reopened on October 12 when the Women’s March’s official Instagram account announced Bernie Sanders as the convention’s headliner. The backlash was instant: The socialist senator is a man—and not just any man, but a man who hasn’t consistently stood with Planned Parenthood (one of the chief sponsors of the Women’s March). Worse yet, he stood in the way of the First Woman President for five stubborn months. An online petition to remove Sanders won more than 1,300 signatures and a formal statement of apology was quickly issued. He rerouted his activism to Puerto Rico, and Rose McGowan, the shero of the moment, took his place at the top of the program. It would be her first public engagement since outing herself on Twitter as an unnamed accuser who’d settled with Harvey Weinstein.....

[2ndDivisionVet]

I'm so old I can remember when Rose McGowan was attractive.

[I want the USA back]

I know plenty of women who are just fine with the world, and with themselves, and with men, and don’t need stupid things like “pussy hats,” “me too,” “reclaim our time,” “Intersectionality,” or “march on.”
They don’t wake up with the words “got to abolish the patriarchy,” or “males and testosterone have destroyed the world.” They do not obsess over White women ceding their “social power” to minorities.
They are just fine with human nature the way it is.

PS, there was no “First Woman President,” so get over your delusion.
Oh, so now they won’t say “hero.” Now it’s “shero!”

[outofsalt]

"Now it’s 'shero!'”

I think that is Zero with a lisp.

[Bigg Red]

I had never even heard of her before the Weinstein thing, and I still could not tell you what she looks like.

[cyclotic]

I wonder if my moonbat aunt and snowflake cousin were there.

On November 9, they proudly posted a photo of themselves wearing their vulgar little pink hats and how proud they were to stand for their rights.

My kids and I took a photo that included us, 2 MAGA hats, 1 NRA hat, 1 American flag hat, 1 Hillary for Prison T-shirt, 1 Black Guns Matter T-shirt, a framed poster of Ronald Reagan, 1 pink Ruger LCP 380 (Daughter) and 3 AR-15’s in our hands. We captioned it “We’re proud to stand for our rights too”

I sent it to my mom not intending for it to go public but she posted it to Facebook. For some reason, my aunt and cousin haven’t spoken to us in a year.

[freedomlover]

Here she is - clearly showing her disdain for Harvey Weinstein