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Ignored ironies: women, protest and Donald Trump : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 24/1/2017

These are hippies turned conservative protectors of the status quo, doves genetically modified to be hawks in Hillary Clinton's laboratory of politics.

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Yup,

The only thing that they were fixated on was that they don't like Trump. (Funny how 52% of white women voted for Trump). They were well coordinated too, supporting Islam, sharia law, and rights for women and LGBT people.

It was a good day out, and they can now go back to their normal duties.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 9:25:41 AM
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It isn't 'women' of the US. It is the left-leaning, always-privileged (and forever-privileged) middle class women and 'look at moi', publicity-seeking, virtue-signalling, yesterday entertainers who cannot get over an election result where 'democracy always gets it wrong if left doesn't win'.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2673516/madonna-tells-womens-march-against-donald-trump-that-she-fantasises-about-blowing-up-white-house/

Feminism never was about doing anything for the black women in lower socio-economic burbs whose children grow into gangs dealing drugs and committing violence. Obama was privileged and despite his plum rhetoric never looked like doing anything practical for the ethnic group he claimed to represent.

Democracy is both resilient and fragile, as is freedom of speech. These protesters fail because they do not value either democracy or freedom of speech. It is THEIR way or the highway. Entrenched, privileged women attempting to bully to maintain their status.

By the way, why is there no Feminist Party? Most know the answer to that question.
Posted by leoj, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 9:43:51 AM
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Loudmouth:

"Women in the US can organise and march okay: all they have to do next election campaign is get their timing right."

We don't know that is why they organised and marched. It may have been just sour grapes. We have never seen them organise and march to that extent where their reason could not be mis-interpreted.
Posted by phanto, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 9:51:35 AM
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Killarney

You don't speak for all women, who do you think you are?

The women who marched are the most privileged group of people in the world. They spewed sexist bigotry, hatred, lies and double standards, all the time demanding that women should have all protections, provisions and privileges of patriarchy *and* feminism, while men should have the downsides of both, and be insulted and vilified into the bargain.

The one that really gave me a good belly-laugh was the one holding up the sign saying "Respect". What a joke! That's what the marchers were showing Trump, was it?

The hypocrisy is nauseating.

Why don't you practise what you preach? Why do you think women are entitled to political benefits and privileges just for being women?

Post proof of your activism to end the double standards, or admit that you are a hypocrite.
Posted by Jardine K. Jardine, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 11:37:57 AM
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Since I last posted, the comments can be summarised as:

phanto: The timing makes it look like sour grapes. (They were protesting against a new US regime with regressive policies on women. What was the point of having the march, before knowing whether the regime would win?)

loudmouth: Why couldn't they get the timing right? (Ditto my phanto reply. Because of what they were protesting, the timing WAS right.)

shadow minister: The march supported sharia law. (Rubbish.)

leoj: The march was all about well-off white women who couldn't care less about poor black women. (Look at the footage. A whopping chunk of the crowd was non-white/non-Anglo, non-privileged, didn't wear tiaras, and many were men.)

JKJ: The march 'spewed sexist bigotry, hatred, lies and double standards'. (As did JKJ's own post.)

As I said in my earlier comment, 'The idea that women can organise politically and can fully articulate the political issues important to all women everywhere is dangerous thinking.' The comments here since then have all created an alternate reality of what the march either failed to do, refused to do, got wrong, screwed up, mis-timed or misdirected. Or that it simply revealed feminist hypocrisy, bullying, hatred, and that good old trope from way back - white middle class insularity.

This sums up almost everything I have read about the march. Instead of seeing it for what it was: a well-organised, successful display of global female solidarity - just trivialise, trivialise, trivialise; ridicule, ridicule, ridicule.

We can't have anyone thinking that women actually know what they are doing, can we now?
Posted by Killarney, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 9:32:24 PM
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I would say most women with a heart (pro life) were not welcome to join these feminmist ratbags.
Posted by runner, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 10:15:36 PM
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