Posted on 01/23/2017 1:21:44 PM PST by markomalley
On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of men and women marched under the guise of womens rights.
They marched against President Donald Trump and for Black Lives Matter, the environment, gay marriage and abortion.
They didnt march for womens rights.
At least, not in the all-encompassing way the title, Womens March on Washington, would have you believe.
It was a rejection of unity; a march for liberalism and the left.
And if you are a woman that prescribes to any belief outside of those strictly regulated by the left, you need not have attended.
No pro-life womens groups were allowed to be Womens March partners. New Wave Feminism, a pro-life feminist group, applied and was accepted as a march partner. It was then removed once people caught wind of its abortion stance.
The confusion and contradiction in branding could be seen in conflicting statements by march organizer Bob Bland and an official statement released by the march.
Intersectional feminism is the future of feminism and of this movement, said Bland, according to The Atlantic. We must not just talk about feminism as one issue, like access to reproductive care.
The Womens Marchs platform is pro-choice and that has been our stance from day one, march organizers stated after removing New Wave Feminism. The anti-choice organization in question is not a partner of the Womens March on Washington. We apologize for this error.
What a horrible error, including an organization that pushes the views of millions of women across America. That view has actually increased, according to Gallup. Gallup asked participants, With respect to the abortion issue, would you consider yourself to be pro-choice or pro-life?
Between mid-2015 and mid-2016, those identifying as anti-abortion went up from 44 to 46 percent. Pro-abortion dipped from 50 percent to 47 percent.
The marches that occurred all around America and the world are being lauded as some great accomplishment for our sex, but its only an accomplishment for liberal women, and one that specifically left out a large swath of the female population.
That is because the left has co-opted womens rights as synonymous with abortion promotion. They are so intertwined that its now impossible to see where one begins and the other ends. This melding inherently rejects a sect of women as inferior. It sends the message that if you are not staunchly pro-abortion, you are not a woman, you are not a feminist, and you are not useful. It succeeded in reaffirming the radical divides modern feminism has created among us.
So rather than being the Womens March on Washington, it was the Liberal March on Washington.
President Trump has said incredibly offensive things about both women and men. He has no qualms about going after people with incendiary rhetoric when they push back against him. He makes crude remarks that denigrate the value of women and reduce their value to their physical being. Women should have been marching for their value, worth and moxy. Instead, they marched for a hodge-podge of liberal political beliefs under the clever marketing ploy of women.
As I have said before, we are our own undoing. Modern feminism is tearing women apart Trump is no excuse for that.
Accurately and truly stated !
I had to be downtown for a meeting and saw a bunch of people, men and women, going to the march. They looked like Sanders people to me - very few in the Hillary demo (i.e. old, white, liberal women).
This march was the same thing early BLM marches were. It’s a bunch of useful idiots who were organized to push “peaceful marching” as far as they could, for future plans. It was also a tryout of sorts to identify those who are willing to be radicalized and will be handed leadership roles to promote their actual radicalized agenda.
Soros’ funding for too many groups in all its ugliness.
You're Telling Me !! My friend Ed was down there to check it out. Look what happened....
Why is that woman kissing that thing?
This statement makes mountains out of mole hills and avoids the tactics of the Left. Trump used the Alinsky playbook which the media ignores or hides from the nation. That way the Left has free reign in their denegration tactics to wage their war of personal destruction.
How can I describe it?
Let me count the ways...
Foul, filthy, disgusting, degenerate, etc.
They didn’t lift women up, they degraded them.
Their behaviour was the very antitheisis of feminity.
Not only with their mouths, but the way they trashed the area.
Some women and teachers brought their children and students which should have been immediately removed from their “care”.
At the very least, I hope that Ivanka saw the company she’d be keeping if she got into “helping” women.
Wrong. These marches were planned in Oct as celebrate HRC victory marches, with hotels/flights booked and paid for, routes planned, permits granted/paid for in DC until HRC lost. Then it ‘became’ a women’s reproductive march.
American feminists have nothing to say so long as they say nothing about islam.
My money is on it was a “CONGRATULATIONS HILLARY” march that got repurposed when she lost. Why else would it be a “women’s march”?
I can say I am for women, potential women that are being killed in the womb, for convenience and body parts.
A great, if difficult to unsee, graphic. Hope Ed survived that embrace.
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