Pussy Hats Galore

She's baaaaaack.

After over four years of media blackout, it's time I spoke up again.

Eight years ago, I wrote about Barack Hussein Obama, a man.  He is now a former President, and this country elected Donald J. Trump in his place.

No one is more bowled over by the fact that the SOB actually managed to get elected to the White House.  It's two months after election night and I can't believe he pulled it off (and now many more think the election was illegitimate as his opponent, Hillary Clinton, won the popular vote by nearly 3 million, and blasted the Electoral College is unfair, antiquated, racist, or a combination of the three).

Electoral College aside, the election was a slinging mudfest of the highest order.  Many on the left side of the aisle are wailing and gnashing their teeth today, the day after inauguration, and suddenly clinging to the Constitution have decided to start protesting and paying attention to the Executive Branch, worried that the abuses that Obama exercised on executive orders and more will be used by the incoming President.  (Common sense and foresight don't necessarily go hand in hand, apparently.)

Today marks the Women's March on Washington.  As you can see from CNN, women are marching all over the globe, including DC, New York City, Chicago, London, Paris, and Berlin.  As you can also see, there's a lot of pink in those photos, mostly because leading up to the event there was a campaign to knit as many "pussy hats" as possible to wear to the event, because women can't make a statement about rights or injustices without wearing genitalia on their heads to ensure a listening audience.  I had thought those events were called bachelorette parties.

But that's not the point.  In a social media conversation yesterday, I was told that if a pro-life lady like myself wanted to march, I would not be welcomed.  I wondered aloud why the Women's March was called as such when the aims and goals of the march were only for certain classes of women:

-Non-Christian women
-Liberal-leaning women
-Pro-choice women
-Non-white women
-Women who are not cisgender or straight
-Women who are not citizens of the US

And yet, in the next paragraph:

This march is the first step towards unifying our communities, grounded in new relationships, to create change from the grassroots level up.

The social media conversation went on a little longer, and I insisted that title of the march was misleading.  This was not a march for all women.  The criteria to march was not only to own a vagina, as the title inferred.  Why not call it the Women's Rights March?  Why not Women's Choice March?  How about the Women's Equality March (because it's impossible for men to get an abortion)?  I'm not following the logic here.  Men were welcome, too, apparently, but only if they were non-Christian, pro-choice, etc. (see list above).

Unification our communities will not happen the further we divide each other into smaller and smaller bento boxes of classes.  When we slap labels onto each other, we enable others to see us as only part(s) of our whole.  Humans were actually made as more than the sum of their parts; seeing a face and calling someone by name will make them real and whole to us.  It's a lot easier to bash someone when you only see them as a meme.

Upon the close of the day, we see that Madonna thought about blowing up the White House.  Someone please remind her to check her privilege for being able to freely admit to terrorist thoughts in public.