Complete idiots respond to the #WomensMarch on Twitter

Then there’s always the what about the menz? that is actually legit

http://images.radiotimes.com/namedimage/The_internet_is_obsessed_with_Sir_Ian_McKellen_s_sign_for_the_Women_s_March.jpg?quality=85&mode=crop&width=620&height=374&404=tv&url=/uploads/images/original/128679.jpg

Because that’s a win too.

TW: I’m feeling really great about the turnout and peacefulness of the women’s marches worldwide — but I feel compelled to address the issue that Leda Atomica raises, which entails some seriously negative energy.

@Leda Atomica

I was booted without a warning. Unless “bye” counts as a warning.

I’m sorry to hear that.

You might be interested in this Ms. article from 1976:

TRASHING: The Dark Side of Sisterhood
by Joreen

http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/trashing.htm

It made me cry because I’ve had experiences similar to yours.

As I recall from reading the original article, the subhead was “Sisterhood Is Powerful: It Can Kill.” The word kill isn’t meant literally. But it can seem as though your spirit has died!

Internet hugs if you want them. Stay strong.

@Leda
I’m rereading the article, and I want to acknowledge that trashing (aka gaslighting) isn’t the same as disrespect, which might apply to your situation more than the word trashing does.

Nonetheless, both are serious issues that mess with a person’s head. Politically progressive groups should work to minimize (eliminate) this kind of behavior.

@Tara I had noticed that. 🙂 🙂 Too perfect!

@Leda *huuuuuuuuuuuuugs*

@ Kat

Thank you so much for linking that! I would love to dissect it a bit but it gave me so many thoughts I will have to make a separate post for it (and possibly either sleep or make some pretty feisty tea).

@ Scildfreja Unnýðnes

Thank you! I am a fan of this particular space and the awesome posters here. I know I don’t chime out often but I have been in a place where I haven’t had the energy to focus my thoughts, besides usually someone has already said what I would have had to put in, and much better as well. This blog is a source of joy to me!

I don’t actually “go for” safe spaces. The group I was in was the only one discussing anarchism from a feminist point of view without an onslaught of manarchists coming to a well, actually.

The reason I said I felt unsafe in the group of late is not because I had expected a safe space. It was more upsetting than that. I felt unsafe around my fellow feminists, who were just so blatantly denying the trauma of SA Trump-bunny’s “locker room” comments brought on to so many people. And pointing out there is oppression based on genitalia made it worse. It felt very wrong and violating.

@ Fishy Goat

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_2SeegC4Jhc/T9EgcK0ZqMI/AAAAAAAAC2g/MwpKWE9j0Vk/s1600/cat-puppy-hug-gif.gif

(Sorry if my hugs are bitey, I mean well)

@ Snork Maiden

Yes this is confusing to me in many ways.

“I mean, the fact is, people with vaginas and uteri are targeted for violence and oppression, and simply talking about this shouldn’t be upsetting to a person who doesn’t have those things should it? Surely it’s all about showing solidarity?”

This is how I felt. And the admin who kicked us out didn’t have those experiences. I felt we were not heard.

Edit: Sorry gor the gibberish. Normal me would make it more readable but am a bit out of capacity atm (blah blah blah me not slept blah blah blah dentist drugged me).

@ Vicky P

I do now have a delightful image of George Soros knitting away like a demon. Please don’t take that away from me? 🙂

@ Vicky P

After all, it’s not just women who knit

I know a few special forces guys who knit. Its something they can do on long surveillance jobs and there always a bit of a demand for stuff like warm gloves and balaclavas in those circles.

Before I became the knitter I am now, I made two “pussyhats” years ago. (I don’t know the official pattern but I saw people in the marches wearing the exact kind I made.)
I was a beginner, knitted a “tea cosy” big enough to wrap around my head and sewed the corners to make cat ears. I wore those for a few winters in my teens.

They weren’t pink, so maybe that’s why no one called me a big corporation.

“a big ol’ swatch that’s seamed along the sides”

That’s what I did!

I have to check it out, I think someone posted the pdf. in another group.

@ Leda Ah, how can I be upset when that gif is sooooo adorbs? *melts into happy goo*

@Alan Robertshaw Your comment reminded me of ‘cock cozies’ :3

Wow… this is 10,000 tweets that show CLEARLY why 1,000,000 people marched in resistance to trump.

@Victorious Parasol;

Apparently the jerkfaces have decided that all the pink hats were manufactured, bought, and distributed by Soros or some other billionaire.

George Soros is the “Goldstein” character for the Alternate Reality Media. For those not versed in “1984” * , Goldstein” was the character that the Inner Party blamed for everything that didn’t fit their propaganda direction.

from Orwell’s prescient work…

The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a messenger hurried on to the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker’s hand. He unrolled and read it without pausing in his speech. Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different. Without words said, a wave of understanding rippled through the crowd. Oceania was at war with Eastasia! The next moment there was a tremendous commotion. The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! Quite half of them had the wrong faces on them. It was sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been at work!!

Soros paid all the protesters that demonstrated after the election $15 hour (though none of the Alternate Reality Media seemed bothered to explain HOW this payment took place… did they turn in time cards?), now he’d bought and distributed the pink hats (again, there’s logistical problems with that), and probably we’ll find out soon that he paid the protesters here as well.

The Alternate Reality Media can drum up a “Sandy Hook was a complete fabrication” conspiracy based on threads so flimsy they’re nonexistent like “how else do you explain the SHADOW in this PHOTO!?!?!?!”, and they’re completely on board with the generation of a wave of one MILLION people protesting in HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT PLACES based on nothing more than a fucking CRAIG’S LIST ADVERTISEMENT!?!?! Alternative facts, indeed!

* I fear that for the “trumpening”, we’re going to need a “Godwin’s Law” metaphor for determining the half-life of a discussion thread before someone brings up “1984” 😉 🙁

ETA: RESIST!! (forgot that, not good!!)