Posted on 01/24/2017 3:08:18 PM PST by Zakeet
In the weeks approaching the Women's March on Washington, a woman in Los Angeles accidentally created what became the most popular accessory among protesters: a pussy hat.
"I wanted to do something more than just show up," Krista Suh told the Los Angeles Times. "How can I visually show someone what's going on? And I realized as a California girl, I would be really cold in D.C. - it's not tank-top weather year-round. So I thought maybe I could knit myself a hat."
Suh made the knitting pattern freely available online, and soon women across the country were working quickly to finish their own pink hats before the big day. The hats became a movement within a movement, turning President Donald Trump's infamous "grab them by the pussy" comment on its head.
While clever, Suh's pussy hats set the tone for a march that would focus acutely on genitalia at the expense of the transgender community. Signs like "Pussy power," "Viva la Vulva" and "Pussy grabs back" all sent a clear and oppressive message to trans women, especially: having a vagina is essential to womanhood.
"The main reason I decided not to go was because of the pussy hats," 28-year-old Jade Lejeck said in an interview Sunday night. "I get that they're a response to the 'grab them by the pussy' thing, but I think some people fixated on it the wrong way."
Lejeck, a trans woman from Modesto, California, said the hats signaled to her that there would be other trans-exclusionary messages at the women's marches.
She expected her local march to have its fair share of trans-exclusionary radical feminists, known as TERFs. As Lejeck described it, there are two categories of TERFS: One is the accidental TERF - "the ones who have signs that equate womanhood with having a vagina," she said. The other category, Lejeck explained, includes feminists who argue trans women are actually men in disguise trying to infiltrate their spaces. [...]
Libtard fight alert!
It was highly insulting for the radical feminists to dress up in their female genitalia costumes and lecture people about human dignity ... because that meant they were practicing genital based womanhood ... which reinforced oppressive structures for transvestites who don't have these kind of sex organs ... thus causing pain and anguish to cross-dressers and drag queens!
Live by the "naughty bits" politics and you will be made to die by the "naughty bits" politics.
And I thought they were referring to cats the whole time.
I hope everyone has noticed that these womyn who DEMAND that they not be judged or characterized by their sex or body parts, are parading around dressed AS female body parts!
I’d mention the irony but they would probably hear it as “ironing” and get all huffy over that, too.
Oh my.
Kind of hard to make a proper sammich in that outfit.
We must wipe out genital based womanhood! It’s the scourge of our times!
Just when you thought you really had heard everything.
It was also alienating to women who don’t agree with genital based policies or rights.
* It was highly insulting for the radical feminists to dress up in their female genitalia costumes and lecture people about human dignity ... because that meant they were practicing genital based womanhood ... which reinforced oppressive structures for transvestites who don’t have these kind of sex organs ... thus causing pain and anguish to cross-dressers and drag queens! *
It seems to me that the angry leftist lesbians (like those pictured) are trying to claim an inherit feminine sexuality - although they deny it, and don’t even properly acknowledge it - by their choice of alternative lifestyles.
Whaaa? Did they just offend the TransQueers? HA! Too funny...
Trannies aren’t women, they’ll NEVER be women, and cross dressers won’t be either. I hope that these two groups REALLY go after each other BIG LEAGUE!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The age of Obama goes out not with a wimper, but with a hissy fit.
bkmk
lol They do have their ears stuffed into their women bits.
Signs like “Pussy power,” “Viva la Vulva” and “Pussy grabs back” all sent a clear and oppressive message to trans women, especially: having a vagina is essential to womanhood.
I LOLed.
Livin’ La Vulva Loca
Wasn’t one of the Dem memes in 2012, Vote for your lady parts? I remember Lena Dunham making an Obama ad talking about ‘your first time’, with lots of double entendres, and it turned out to be about taking your first vote. So, they have definitely regressed this time......I hope they keep tumbling. It is a joy to watch.
funny transgender people dont know where to fit in, wear a vagina on their heads or a penis on their heads, decisions decisions
Women screaming “don’t objectify me” simultaneously objectify themselves.
The transgenders versus feminists fight has been building for several years.
For example, several classic and 4 decade established feminists were no-platformed by younger ones by saying Jenner shouldn’t get an award just for transitioning (and still not quite, since he retains male plumbing). Camille Pagalia pithily said he should have to be a woman for at least a year before he’s considered for a woman’s award.
Feminists who say that it is unacceptable to let biologically intact men into women’s spaces when there is a 1/5 rape rate are called bigots.
There is some discussion on the “cotton ceiling”, bullying of lesbians who won’t have sex with a transgender (man) who still has male plumbing.
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