Posted on 01/29/2019 7:49:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The House Democratic Women's Working Group is inviting female members of both parties to wear white to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address next week as a symbol of solidarity.
"Wearing suffragette white is a respectful message of solidarity with women across the country, and a declaration that we will not go back on our hard-earned rights," Rep. Lois Frankel of Florida, the chair of the working group, told CNN.
Frankel pointed out there have never been as many Democratic women serving in Congress as there are today.
In 2017, the same group coordinated Democratic women wearing white to Trump's joint address to Congress. At the time, the women said they were wearing white not only in memory of the women's suffrage movement but also to show Trump their support for a number of issues affecting women, including affordable health care, reproductive rights and equal pay.
Wearing white has become common among female politicians who want to make a statement. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore white to the new-member swearing-in ceremony earlier this month, and wrote in a tweet, "I wore all-white today to honor the women who paved the path before me, and for all the women yet to come."
The New York Democrat added, "From suffragettes to Shirley Chisholm, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the mothers of the movement."
Hillary Clinton wore white when accepting the Democratic nomination for president in 2016.
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Legislatures usually prohibit the wearing of any kind of badge or cap or sign, other than a US flag lapel pin, because otherwise legislative sessions would become more of a circus than they already are.
Is an exception made for the SOTU?
If so, can opponents of abortion dress in red to symbolize the lost children?
Wear white?
What’s wrong with wearing black?
Buncha racist liberals.
Someone should bring a bunch of white hoods to hand to those wearing white, to show exactly where the real racism lies.
I heard a rumor the Democrat women will also be wearing white hoods shaped like vaginas.
White again and white in winter ,LOL
Their gender is XXKKK.
Suffragette colors were green, white, and purple, but also green, white and gold in the USA.
The all white just makes them all look like KKK women, minus the hoods. OTOH, if the Muslim females wear white headgear, that'll solve the missing hood thing.
Repeal the 19th?
“White pants on dopes!”
... reminds me of a song.
“Some they do
And some they don’t
And some you just can’t tell
Some they will
And some they won’t
And some IT’S JUST AS WELL” - Supertramp
To all the dames who THINK anyone really CARES
The Nativity could never have taken place in DC.
My first thought....Last year the girls wore black. Pelosi looked like sh** and most of the others did, too. White is much more flattering.
Any criticism of what they wear will be called sexist.
Repeal the 19th!
Yeah... while actively working to demonstrate that women are too stupid, illogical, and emotional to be granted rights equal to men (in those areas where many of us are equal). Democrat female stupidity is the strongest argument against women's rights.
As a woman and a professional in a highly technical field, I very much resent the Democrat female effort to convince everyone that women are too stupid and irresponsible to place in any position of responsibility. They make women look bad. And I am sobered by the fact that they do get elected--by an electorate as irrational and unable to think as they are.
Oh Good God!
The liberal view, is that the GOP wants to turn back the clock on women’s issues. According to them, the deplorables want women barefoot and pregnant, want to get rid of birth control, send women back to the kitchen to stay there.
They are also obsessed with “The Handmaid’s Tale” , a crazy piece of fiction which they are convinced conservatives use as the guide to taking women’s rights away.
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