Are the women back today?
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I was proud to strike and to attend the protest against the Global Gag Rule in Washington, DC. Access to birth control and safe and legal abortion is a critical part of ending poverty, inequality, maternal death and overpopulation in Africa, South America and other places. It's so sad that low-income women and girls in the global south will suffer and, in some cases, die because the Trump administration is pandering to their misogynist base of supporters.
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This "woman's movement" is devisive and wholly unecessary; a by product of idleness and a life of ease. To be clear: you "protestors" do not represent me as a woman. I think you're being ridiculous. We need to be unified as a nation, not further sub-divided. This is nonsense. I really wish you all would find a genuine mission, because this phony one is grating on my last nerve.
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Just wanted to add, for the record, my wife & I marched last night with literally thousands of fellow NYers for many miles and several hours in the streets of downtown Manhattan. This article, and other outlets. seem to miss the much larger protests by focusing on the smaller one near Trump Tower, because people were arrested there.
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A large percentage of hospital employees are women: doctors, nurses, patient care technicians, cleaning staff, dietary, business offices, unit secretaries, social workers, etc. I went to work, and so did all the women i know in my hospital,because how could we women in good conscience not keep the hospitals going?
It is wrong to draw any conclusions about the "movement "from yesterday's turnout.
It is wrong to draw any conclusions about the "movement "from yesterday's turnout.
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Honestly I had no idea that this was even planned or going on. I did not wear red, I went to work and I went shopping at a chain place-oops! My bad.
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Why is the picture of the evening march featured prominently, but it isn't even discussed in the text?
To be clear: there were two separate events.
There was a rally at noon in midtown (hundreds attended), and there was a separate rally in Washington Square Park at 4, followed by a march at 6 that went past the Stonewall Inn, Trump Soho, and down to Zuccotti Park (thousands attended.)
The former was discussed in the text, the latter was used as cover photo only.
To be clear: there were two separate events.
There was a rally at noon in midtown (hundreds attended), and there was a separate rally in Washington Square Park at 4, followed by a march at 6 that went past the Stonewall Inn, Trump Soho, and down to Zuccotti Park (thousands attended.)
The former was discussed in the text, the latter was used as cover photo only.
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I teach women's history and thought it would be the height of irony had I stayed away from that particular class to protest. It is interesting that the writer chose to quote Todd Gitlin, a man, for this story. Were there no female scholars available? Also, the right may chortle at the small turnouts, but their recent rallies for Trump seem to have fallen woefully short as well.
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What is a protest? It is NOT a headcount of a movement. It is a way for those who are safe enough (from violence, deportation, police brutality), comfortable enough (one discrete, 8x11" sign last night read "Introverts Against Donald Trump") and free that night to demonstrate anger and intent to the public and be seen. It is a way to feel community and disseminate information. It is a way to grieve and build hope. If every woman were able to participate in the march, we would not be marching. Duh. Stop counting us and find the real stories. This article is disappointing.
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Thank you! Exactly. The Women's March was one of the largest and most significant protests in history. It cannot, and will not, be replicated every month. Many of us who were there feel that something was changed in ourselves and the world forever, and this will manifest itself in many different ways. It was an accomplishment in itself.
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Many people I know, myself included, have become more politically active than we ever thought we would. If you're questioning how to get more involved to sustain pressure on this incredibly corrupt administration, here are some ideas. Download the 5 Calls app. It will give you talking points and phone numbers for your congressional reps, your governor, and state reps. Make at least one call EVERY DAY. Get on autopay with the ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club, etc. Even a few bucks a month will help. Join your local Indivisible group, or Organizing for America, or another local action group. They'll keep you informed of protests and other local actions. They take a page from the tea party handbook - they focus on the government reps in your district. Don't bother calling Mitch McConnell or Paul Ryan unless you're in their district. If you can't vote them out of office, they don't care what you think. Commit to yourself to staying in this for the long run. We have a long, ugly fight ahead of us to save our country. But pace yourself. We can't afford to lose people to burnout. If you need a week off, take it. Then jump back into the fray. Your country needs you.
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I thought this was misguided and rather privileged. Also, how do you count people who aren't there?
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instead of going on strike, and missing work, why not "Women ask for a fair wage day", meaning show up to work and if a Man is making more than you for similar work...they ask for a raise..seems much more productive
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Women have been asking for raises for decades. This is a systemic problem. If it was as simple as asking for a raise, we wouldn't be marching right now.
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I was downtown DC yesterday and didn't run into any marchers, are you sure you had the correct date for the march. I did not that the two school districts around DC that closed for the day, Alexandria City, Virginia and Prince George's County, Maryland are the two worst performing school systems in the area so are where the students needed to be in school the most. Alexandria's TC Williams High School is even losing its accreditation and has the lowest test scores in the state while the PG schools rival Baltimore for last place in Maryland. Some positives are the absence of the teachers was probably reflected as a gain on the school manning rosters and increased the average IQ in the school systems by at least 20 points.
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Yes, American women are some of the post downtrodden, taking advantage of group in the world......boooo hoooo
Now ladies, please get back to work and stop wasting peoples time and holding up traffic, grow up.
Now ladies, please get back to work and stop wasting peoples time and holding up traffic, grow up.
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"But the protests were far smaller than the masses who turned the women’s marches on Jan. 21 into a phenomenon, keeping the question open of whether protesters’ fervor can be channeled into a sustained movement with demonstrable political results."
The question I had when I first heard about this idea was "what are they--the organizers--thinking?" This was ill-conceived from the start. No women in my company that I know of participated in this...and women make up the majority of our workforce. Some say women make less than men because of a perception they don't take their careers as seriously as men. Striking for a day just reinforces that perception. Also, the 1-day boycott on shopping strikes me the same way 1-day gas boycotts did in the past. The shopping just gets transferred to another day, just like the gas buying does.
The question I had when I first heard about this idea was "what are they--the organizers--thinking?" This was ill-conceived from the start. No women in my company that I know of participated in this...and women make up the majority of our workforce. Some say women make less than men because of a perception they don't take their careers as seriously as men. Striking for a day just reinforces that perception. Also, the 1-day boycott on shopping strikes me the same way 1-day gas boycotts did in the past. The shopping just gets transferred to another day, just like the gas buying does.
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And the work you didn't do yesterday was waiting for you today. Whether it was laundry or legal cases, it just piled up and waited for you to get back to it
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A day without women? Yawn.
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Excellent article but heads up, NY Times! The Honorable Stacey Plaskett hails from and represents the Virgin Islands, not Virginia!
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Hey NYT, why isn't this article on the front page, like the coverage of the January march?
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To be blunt: Stupid headline. And the NYT should know better. First of all, a loud kudos, praise and applause for those that went on strike. However. a lot of women can't afford to lose their jobs, myself and lot of friends and family members included. Red was worn, thoughts and prayers were with them, admiration for their courage was strong. But, for many different reasons, we just couldn't go. There was no 'test". Our protest against pussy grabbers and discrimination is still strong and growing. In fact, with the Devil-in-Disguise in power, it's a war. And, we shall overcome. With a nasty, ugly, vile moron in control of the USA , war is essential. Don't belittle Wednesday. There is very much more action to come.
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Yes.
I'm seriously considering cancellation of my subscription to this news outlet.
I'm seriously considering cancellation of my subscription to this news outlet.
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Next up, Saturday, April 15th, Tax Day protest against Trump's refusal to make his returns public!
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Sounds like a hoot. Have fun.
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Now, that is something worth doing!
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The flight attendant called my name and the passengers parted so I could reach another plane about to take off. 4 women followed me as they also would be late for the gate and we were jovial and helping each other run the near mile through Midway airport almost 2 months ago. 4 women, one man (me). I was twice their age and huffing as we rounded a corner and there were 200 women at a gate. They ran forward and as I called, "Where do I go?", they suddenly ignored me and joined the throng while I found a lonely desk, explained I was to be next-planed, a door was opened and I got on and flew home. The next day I realized what had happened: The women were flying to Washington via Baltimore to be part of the big protest. Man, they had dumped me as if I was Albert DeSalvo. As if I was the president elect, as if they didn't want to be seen speaking to a man. So if that kind of discrimination, that attitude, dies as a movement, good. Let it get buried and don't hate me because I once had an active penis life.
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Really? If I don't go to work, I don't get paid. This is becoming more common in today's workforce. Yet somehow, people are quick to make this a gender issue.
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But when you DO go to work, you are likely paid more than your female counterparts by a quarter to a third of the dollar.
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I was in and about Manhattan and the Bronx yesterday, and if there was a strike, it certainly wasn't discernible to me.
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I'm still not understanding what these woman are protesting. The woman's marches seemed phony to me, and this does as well.
One big problem is that these protesting woman do not represent the majority of women, and in fact exclude many groups of women, such as conservative women.
These marches and protests all seems to me to be a bit absurd and ridiculous. The woman's suffrage movement made sense, but this? I don't see what we women should protest right now. Instead of protesting ambiguously like this, there should be more decisive and legal action put forth, if you protestors could even intelligibly communicate that which you are protesting.
No one has a clear idea about what in the world these women are trying to say. There are real problems and atrocities out there to fight, such as poverty and enslavement. Instead of demanding respect, why not earn it?
Protesting for the sake of protesting appears absurdly embarrassing to me as a woman. Instead, women should unite to feed their poor neighbors, or to organize to repair homes in our towns and cities that are falling apart. You can't demand respect, you earn respect.
One big problem is that these protesting woman do not represent the majority of women, and in fact exclude many groups of women, such as conservative women.
These marches and protests all seems to me to be a bit absurd and ridiculous. The woman's suffrage movement made sense, but this? I don't see what we women should protest right now. Instead of protesting ambiguously like this, there should be more decisive and legal action put forth, if you protestors could even intelligibly communicate that which you are protesting.
No one has a clear idea about what in the world these women are trying to say. There are real problems and atrocities out there to fight, such as poverty and enslavement. Instead of demanding respect, why not earn it?
Protesting for the sake of protesting appears absurdly embarrassing to me as a woman. Instead, women should unite to feed their poor neighbors, or to organize to repair homes in our towns and cities that are falling apart. You can't demand respect, you earn respect.
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I am behind the Resistance a thousand percent, but I fear that this strike was misconceived. As busy as women are, they can conjure time out of nothing to do yet one more thing: march, call, write, organize. But the March 8 strike was asking women NOT to do something. Women are bound by their personal responsibilities to all those who depend on them. At work, this might be patients clients, students, coworkers; at home, it is the family members who depend on that day's pay. Shirking our personal responsibilities, even for a good cause, goes against our grain. Organize another weekend action, and the streets will once again be flooded with pink.
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It's no wonder the protests are diminishing both number in fervor. Everyone is holding their breath to see how long it will be before this entire presidency completely self-destructs. It's like raking leaves when a hurricane is on the way.
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For any political movement momentum and varied forms of participation are important. This was certainly true of the civil rights movement and the anti-war movements. This new 'resist' movement is wisely reflecting those tactics.
But the next time the Times reporters need a source to comment on this new movement and compare it to earlier ones they should ask a woman. While women were often frozen out of the leadership of SDS and the various civil rights organizations, they were there and they were in many instances the very backbone of those struggles. And they are equally as capable of providing a credible analysis of politics then and now as any man is. "Resist."
But the next time the Times reporters need a source to comment on this new movement and compare it to earlier ones they should ask a woman. While women were often frozen out of the leadership of SDS and the various civil rights organizations, they were there and they were in many instances the very backbone of those struggles. And they are equally as capable of providing a credible analysis of politics then and now as any man is. "Resist."
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A Day without Men is being planned even as we speak! The serious repercussions that will happen to women around the world will be as follows:
- No jars in the entire world will be opened
- No bugs inside homes will be squashed
- There will nothing but silence to the question, "Does this make me look fat?"
- There will be no response to sports questions asked by women, such as, "Are the players married to the cheerleaders?"
- They will remain angry all day, with no one to ask, "Geez, why are you mad at me this time?"
- Your nagging will fall on deaf ears.
Just thought I'd give you a heads-up.
- No jars in the entire world will be opened
- No bugs inside homes will be squashed
- There will nothing but silence to the question, "Does this make me look fat?"
- There will be no response to sports questions asked by women, such as, "Are the players married to the cheerleaders?"
- They will remain angry all day, with no one to ask, "Geez, why are you mad at me this time?"
- Your nagging will fall on deaf ears.
Just thought I'd give you a heads-up.
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"Tests a Movement's Staying Power"?
Seriously?
A woman wrote that headline?
Listen, whoever you are, the feminist movement's staying power is tested every day. And it just gets stronger.
Many of us who didn't participate in the Women's Day activities had our free-time option exhausted by the Women's March on Washington. Another symbolic activity seemed to be too soon. Time for action instead.
Seriously?
A woman wrote that headline?
Listen, whoever you are, the feminist movement's staying power is tested every day. And it just gets stronger.
Many of us who didn't participate in the Women's Day activities had our free-time option exhausted by the Women's March on Washington. Another symbolic activity seemed to be too soon. Time for action instead.
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Trump represents so many horrible things. To me, that is why so many of us turned out for the women's march. To try to make a follow up only about women's rights seems misguided and parochial. As many have commented, for this movement to succeed, it needs to build strength in the communities that, like here in Central Pa., that voted overwhelmingly for Trump. Elites can advance only so far if they don't also bring the rest of the country with them.
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You are not counting all of us that stayed home from work and refused to spend money!
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I was out with a friend and her child and every woman we saw had red on .
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Hardly any red here in NYC.
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Is no day with or without women without men. There is no better place for women to live than in the United States with the best constitution in the world. It is a shame that a few angry women want others to be angry and miserable with them.
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So you can't take the day off? Fine, don't. But don't disparage others who took the day off to attend the protest. (And the "evil" teachers who are leaving you without childcare for the day? Please. Teachers are among the most underpaid public servants around. Could it be because they work in a female-dominated field?)
So you don't think you need to fight for your rights as a woman living in the US? Fine, don't. But don't disparage the women who are demanding equal pay for equal work, & equal representation in the government, & leadership positions in general.
Don't disparage women who are demanding reproductive rights (currently under attack), the right to live in homes free of domestic violence, to walk down the street without being harassed, & the right to harassment-free workplaces. Don't disparage the women who are fighting for racial equality & equal rights for LGBTQ people.
It's great to gather together in public & listen to real, live, knowledgeable humans speak about urgently important matters that affect people of all races & backgrounds -- instead of staring into our cell phones & computer/TV screens all day.
So, criticize these events all you want, but my goal is to join as many as I can & keep the momentum going. Yes, we need to be making changes at the legislative levels, voting people into office who can create the changes we need in this country, & taking other important steps. But protesting is a very important piece of the puzzle.
So you don't think you need to fight for your rights as a woman living in the US? Fine, don't. But don't disparage the women who are demanding equal pay for equal work, & equal representation in the government, & leadership positions in general.
Don't disparage women who are demanding reproductive rights (currently under attack), the right to live in homes free of domestic violence, to walk down the street without being harassed, & the right to harassment-free workplaces. Don't disparage the women who are fighting for racial equality & equal rights for LGBTQ people.
It's great to gather together in public & listen to real, live, knowledgeable humans speak about urgently important matters that affect people of all races & backgrounds -- instead of staring into our cell phones & computer/TV screens all day.
So, criticize these events all you want, but my goal is to join as many as I can & keep the momentum going. Yes, we need to be making changes at the legislative levels, voting people into office who can create the changes we need in this country, & taking other important steps. But protesting is a very important piece of the puzzle.
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You used the word "demand" so much that I honestly couldn't agree with a word you said, and I am a woman. Demand? Please. The word "earn" would be a less entitled and more welcome word. Forcing variety on a group (such as leadership) is the worst form of sexism, and I as a woman would not want to be hired simply to satisfy "demands" for equal representation. That would be sexist, can't you see that?
The whining and hysteria has reached an embarrassingly high pitch. Get back to work and stop complaining. Complaining and demanding change turns people off.
The whining and hysteria has reached an embarrassingly high pitch. Get back to work and stop complaining. Complaining and demanding change turns people off.
So you don't feel that women have "earned" their right to equal pay for equal work after decades of being in the workforce? You don't feel that women have "earned" the right to have 50-50 representation in the government after centuries of existing side by side with men?
How do you suggest we "earn" our place in the government? How to you suggest we "earn" our right to equal pay for equal work? By being smarter? By working harder? Really, I'd like to hear your ideas about this.
How do you suggest we "earn" our place in the government? How to you suggest we "earn" our right to equal pay for equal work? By being smarter? By working harder? Really, I'd like to hear your ideas about this.
The Women's Resistance Movement is still very strong - and not just women - have no doubt! While I am happily wearing red and not buying anything, I am definitely at my job in nonprofit fundraising and working hard to bring benefit through it. I want to be counted by my presence, not my absence!
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These women don't have to worry about losing their job because their man will keep paying the bills. Some how I feel this is more of a gay pride rally though so the man thing my be overblown. Most women love their families and are not narcissistic enough to rally for me, me, me. But they are doing some good. Think of all the illegal that can find jobs after these women are fired tomorrow.
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Better to combine all the forces and make the impact much more stronger. The same day, a day without women, Muslims, transgenders, illegal immigrants. Then the society will see the power of the oppressed.
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Nice showing, especially compared to Saturday's March4Trump rallies.
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Right! And the Times should be clear about that (non-alternative) fact!
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Let's see. Women should just be nice, and men are so much less catty... WOW. So let's talk about the less catty men for a minute. Would that beDonald trump making fun of Arnold S. on Apprentice or perhaps his unfounded comments in relation to Obama ordering wiretapping...No "cattiness" there. Let's move over to the men in congress and the senate who continually belittles and besmirched a sitting president for the last 8 years and are now hell bent on taking away healthcare from the working poor...Not catty. heartless. But lest the writer think that somehow this "day" for women to express their value is somehow and indication of how angry and "woke" we are... I wouldn't count on smaller numbers being any indication of the numbers who fully intend to grab back power. Hear us roar in 2018 and 2020...But the plans are for us to know, and you to find out.
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And where are the men? Don't criticize women for not being able to march twice in two months without holding the guys accountable.
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I support this movement wholeheartedly but I am keenly aware that striking is a luxury not possible for many low-wage and hourly earners. So instead I wore red and taught my students and stood with them in solidarity as they have started the next women's movement!
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As a single mother that raised her child without any welfare, food stamps, housing assistance, free cell phones or any other so called Free stuff, these women do not represent me!
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Why not?
Everyone's circumstances change. Maybe someone had a mom who could babysit?
Your statement about your situation makes me think you believe you're "holier than thou"?
I too was a single mom and if I could've done this I would have . I certainly wouldn't disparage the women who protested. In fact I would cheer them on .
Everyone's circumstances change. Maybe someone had a mom who could babysit?
Your statement about your situation makes me think you believe you're "holier than thou"?
I too was a single mom and if I could've done this I would have . I certainly wouldn't disparage the women who protested. In fact I would cheer them on .
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Leslie, they don't have to represent you. They represent themselves. You represent yourself. What do you need, and what are you doing about it?
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If men were to go on strike for a day, civilization as we know it would be over within the hour.
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EXACTLY! And, I am a female. This is ridiculous.
Civilization as we know it might not be missed.
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And what would be wrong with that?
While supporting the intention and honoring the day, as a teacher at a Title I school, I believe my place is with my students, who are suffering from this presidency. I do think organizers need to be practical and schedule major marches on the weekend when more people can attend. Most Americans cannot call in sick and are one paycheck away from disaster. That said, national strike time might be right around the corner.
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Shame on you NYT, the women's march on Washington was on a Saturday and planned for 2 months. Today was in the middle of a work week.
Many of us women don't have the luxury to take off work. I am a teacher and choose to be with my students today. By choosing to not take off work. I am showing that education is more important than a single day.
I have not lost my fervor. I will continue to fight for things that are right. And I will continue to do those "thankless jobs"
Many of us women don't have the luxury to take off work. I am a teacher and choose to be with my students today. By choosing to not take off work. I am showing that education is more important than a single day.
I have not lost my fervor. I will continue to fight for things that are right. And I will continue to do those "thankless jobs"
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Thank you for pointing this out! Last night I went to a meeting in my small town here in Oregon, of a newly formed Progressives group getting guidance from the Dem party from the nearby state capital, on how to organize and effect change. We're still here, we're angry, and we're NOT going away. In fact, we're just getting started.
Just because many of us had to work today changes that fact not at all.
Just because many of us had to work today changes that fact not at all.
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I'm embracing this day in all its messiness. We don't have time to figure out the best way to make everyone happy, we just need to keep making noise until this idiot of a president is impeached. And then make some more noise until women have equal pay and equal representation. I'm done being quiet.
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The idea behind Day without A Woman was not centred around marches, those were satellite events. It was to withdraw labour (both unpaid and paid); withhold spending and wear red in solidarity with those doing so if you could not.
It then encouraged engagement with histories and contributions of women through reading lists etc, as well as supporting female and minority led and owned business and charities. This article's claim that smaller numbers in visible protest on the street is indicative of dwindling support is misleading. I am on the Women's March London team so this is first hand information.
It then encouraged engagement with histories and contributions of women through reading lists etc, as well as supporting female and minority led and owned business and charities. This article's claim that smaller numbers in visible protest on the street is indicative of dwindling support is misleading. I am on the Women's March London team so this is first hand information.
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Please keep in mind that International Women's Day precedes 45 by several decades. The women out today were not necessarily only protesting him, we were reminding people we have come a long way but have a long to go, to match men's salaries for instance, in addition to harassment etc. We are not going away. We can demonstrate for women's rights and oppose 45 as well.
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Had a great time participating with hundreds of others in today's Washington DC Women's Day protest against the Trump global gag rule. There was lots of energy. This movement will continue to grow. Right into the 2018 voting booths!
We are paying attention to Trump's attacks on women. De-funding Planned Parenthood is an assault on women's health. Repealing the ACA is an assault on women's, men's and children;s health. Trump is a walking, talking vulgar assault on women. He must go.
Republicans will not be forgotten. They are hypocritical, cynical opportunists. They are carrying out the war on women. Their crimes against women and all of the 99 percent are being catalogued. Justice will be carried out in 2018. Republicans must go.
We are paying attention to Trump's attacks on women. De-funding Planned Parenthood is an assault on women's health. Repealing the ACA is an assault on women's, men's and children;s health. Trump is a walking, talking vulgar assault on women. He must go.
Republicans will not be forgotten. They are hypocritical, cynical opportunists. They are carrying out the war on women. Their crimes against women and all of the 99 percent are being catalogued. Justice will be carried out in 2018. Republicans must go.
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So - on top of all the time off for maternity leaves, the aversion to technical degrees, the time off for the formative years, the refusal to work off-shifts, the reluctance to move to take a promotion, the lack of interest in upgrading skills...
They want a free day a year to wear red, march, take selfies and post to FB?
Where does it end...
They want a free day a year to wear red, march, take selfies and post to FB?
Where does it end...
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Why am I not surprised? Shocked yes, surprised, no. Time off for maternity leave, really?
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Yeah, SteveRR, those grabby witches! Wanting more than seventy-one cents on the dollar in their paychecks, wanting men to stop manipulating their health care, wanting public representatives who aren't sexual predators. Crazy, amiright?
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All good and inclusive except for women who don't believe in abortion as a right, conservative women. These are women to be berated and excluded. And, of course, minorities exempted, unless they fall into the conservative category. Seems to be a perpetual, ongoing protest by liberal and NOW-type women.
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I live in California, but was born and raised on the streets of Brooklyn. I commuted by subway to Fordham University. I'm probably more of a
NYer than many people who live there. I'm in Palm Springs, just far enough from LA to be out of its sphere of influence. Few people here are participating in the day without women., even my many friends who are ex NYers. I have benefit of knowing what it is like to be inside the bubble and outside of it.
Based on my observation, today is both a bubble thing and elitist event. Non professional, lesser educated and low earning women are largely left out today, since they possess neither the means nor the power to miss work. Those in the bubble are so surrounded by homogeneous beliefs that they are blinded to the fact that they represent just a fraction of women. Yet the media wil report on this as if it were the beginning of a new revolutionary war.
And, yet again, the tens of millions non elite will be ignored. Pressdent Trump does not divide us. By our own arrogance, we divide ourselves.
NYer than many people who live there. I'm in Palm Springs, just far enough from LA to be out of its sphere of influence. Few people here are participating in the day without women., even my many friends who are ex NYers. I have benefit of knowing what it is like to be inside the bubble and outside of it.
Based on my observation, today is both a bubble thing and elitist event. Non professional, lesser educated and low earning women are largely left out today, since they possess neither the means nor the power to miss work. Those in the bubble are so surrounded by homogeneous beliefs that they are blinded to the fact that they represent just a fraction of women. Yet the media wil report on this as if it were the beginning of a new revolutionary war.
And, yet again, the tens of millions non elite will be ignored. Pressdent Trump does not divide us. By our own arrogance, we divide ourselves.
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Just because I'm not out marching today, do not underestimate my resolve to continue to oppose this president. I'm absolutely committed and know many other women like me who have not been active before that are of similar conviction.
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I fully support the principles of the Women's March, and in January I flew from Seattle to DC to attend, bringing my 13 year old daughter with me. It was a profound experience, life altering in some ways, and I have NOT lost momentum since the march. I am more determined than ever to stand up for my beliefs, and have participated in phone calls and postcard writing to representatives, a Resistance group, have written postcards, and attended rallies and marches since then. I am just getting started.
However...
As much as I want to support the continuation of the Women's March, this format of protest (A Day Without Women) was hard for me. Yes I could wear red and refrain from purchasing, but missing another day of work (I took time off to travel to the DC march in January) was not possible, and I know it wasn't possible for many. I was fine with that, but it did create a large opening for the right to criticize the event, and for articles like this one that point out how participation dropped off since the Women's March. I'm not sure that the messaging gelled, and I know many very progressive women who wore red and showed up to work, but for us this was just another day.
I remain committed to the cause and hope that the next actions with the Women's March will be those I can get behind 100% again. I am not going away.
However...
As much as I want to support the continuation of the Women's March, this format of protest (A Day Without Women) was hard for me. Yes I could wear red and refrain from purchasing, but missing another day of work (I took time off to travel to the DC march in January) was not possible, and I know it wasn't possible for many. I was fine with that, but it did create a large opening for the right to criticize the event, and for articles like this one that point out how participation dropped off since the Women's March. I'm not sure that the messaging gelled, and I know many very progressive women who wore red and showed up to work, but for us this was just another day.
I remain committed to the cause and hope that the next actions with the Women's March will be those I can get behind 100% again. I am not going away.
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Can we just support each other as we all find our individual ways to protest what Is going on in Washington instead of squabble here in the comment section? Some of us will be able to strike and some of us will wear red and come In to work to serve the vulnerable. But we are united In our goal, which Is simply to be granted equal rights and benefits. Why are we fighting amongst ourselves?
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All those complaining about the Day Without a Woman should remember that the U.S. has its annual Day Without a Man coming up, which is better known as "Opening Day".
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And it is hardly noticeable
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Honestly I just women would just be plain old more nice towards each other and supportive of one another.
In day to day life and in general women are often their own worst enemy. This has to stop. Too much criticism and judgement. I've always trusted men more because of that terrible female catty attitude, full of nastiness and snide remarks. It starts early in life to girls and most never seem to grow out of it.
Some of the worst misogynists are women themselves.
In day to day life and in general women are often their own worst enemy. This has to stop. Too much criticism and judgement. I've always trusted men more because of that terrible female catty attitude, full of nastiness and snide remarks. It starts early in life to girls and most never seem to grow out of it.
Some of the worst misogynists are women themselves.
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If you are a woman, shame on you for perpetuating these misogynist stereotypes of your own gender!
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partially true, while this also speaks to your internalized sexism
@Wendy We are still allowed to express our opinions based on our personal experiences even if they don't match yours. My experience is men don't judge and shame others for expressing their opinions.
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They should try a day without men and see how the society they depend upon functions. What narcissists. And you know, white women voted for Trump 55% to 45%.
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To their eternal shame.
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Speak for yourself, Wendy. I'd do it again tomorrow, partly because watching the losers' unintentionally hilarious, nonstop hissy fit is so very, very entertaining.
Loved the previous Women's March on Washington. Happily participated. Felt solidarity with women, men, and children wanting better than Trump for POTUS, and standing for the dignity of women. Didn't connect with A Day without Women though. Seemed like a faint echo of the previous loud blast. I see useful regulations rolled back (e.g., now mining tailings are allowed back in streams) and states further limiting voting rights. I want to join in helping people register to vote. I see undocumented immigrants families separated. I want to dial legislators. I want to see the League of Women Voters' membership swell. Stuff is happening that needs sustained attention and clear focus. I just didn't feel called to the streets today. (And it just dawned on me, in my religious tradition red is the color of martyrs. Some of the issues voiced today don't measure up.) International Women's Day would have been a clearer focus. I'd walk for that.
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I support you in doing all the actions you listed to help. I don't think the Day without a woman actions are in conflict with that, they are more about continuing to tell the truth, gain strength in numbers, and know that we are not laboring alone. Some of us need to rally and get support from each other to continue to do this focused work. I myself had to work today to support my family, but I was really glad to see so many rallying.
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One hundred years ago an International women's day demonstration in Petrograd started the revolution that overthrew the Tsar in Feb./March 1917.
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And look how wonderfully that worked out for everyone.
Millions of killed people are unavailable for comment.
Millions of killed people are unavailable for comment.
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Here's a suggestion for those who are complaining about "A Day Without a Woman." Treat women as equals. Give them the same pay as a man for the same work. Don't grab them in private places the way President Trump likes to do. Simply put, be fair to women, and they won't need to demonstrate like this.
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Chris M Yes, and Eve offered the apple to Adam, too. But why don't we concentrate on the here and now.
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This is merely the protest du jour by a small segment of perpetually angry liberals. Thankfully the vast majority of citizens, including women, are doing exactly what they normally do on any other Wednesday.
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You seem to be one of the reasons why something like "A Day Without Women" is needed.
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Wow what a blatant example of misogamy. Happily, it appears the younger generation of men seem to have an innate awareness and appreciation for the contribution of women. Both my sons (who are in their early 20's and live in two different states) recognize the contributions of women to the workforce. Early this morning, they BOTH texted "Thank you for everything you've done."
I was protesting and am far from a "small segment of perpetually angry liberals".
I was protesting and am far from a "small segment of perpetually angry liberals".
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That's because many women are employed in low-wage health-related and service sector positions. They don't have the time-off, nor often the childcare, to participate. It's not that they're doing "what's normal on Wednesdays", they're doing what they have to do for their families to survive. Two and three jobs, weekends, nights. Six and seven days a week. And yet, 20% of American children are poor, and are often children of working parents.
Why don't you SKIP working one day and give one of these tired, stressed women a break? Empty some bedpans, stock some store shelves, do some manicures, clean a hotel room in a the expected half-hour, clear some banquet tables, fry up some chicken nuggets. It'd be good for your soul.
Why don't you SKIP working one day and give one of these tired, stressed women a break? Empty some bedpans, stock some store shelves, do some manicures, clean a hotel room in a the expected half-hour, clear some banquet tables, fry up some chicken nuggets. It'd be good for your soul.
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One of the points in the "Day Without a Woman" website states the right to free abortion. Why is abortion a "right"? PREGNANCY IS NOT AN ILLNESS. So I don't see why Healthcare should cover to terminate it. Unless of course it's for a medical condition. Here in Canada, where we have universal healthcare, we pay for abortions as well as birth control, although some employment insurances cover the birth control (but not abortions, at least that I know of).
Curious, because I really don't know, but do men get free vasectomies? Does Planned Parenthood cover that?
Curious, because I really don't know, but do men get free vasectomies? Does Planned Parenthood cover that?
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Hello. And thanks for your opinion. I worked as RN for 30yrs. What is not commonly known apparently, is pregnancy is not healthy for the carrier. It was the #1 killer of women during OUR frontier times, prior to male dr's finally educating on women health issues. There ARE issues w/pregnancy that are medical. Emergent. When one speaks of abortion as a black/white rigid issue, they've not experienced or not used The Google to see how it can kill women. If rigidly, abortions are banned, then the woman whose fetus has died, must go to term, with dead tissue inside, risking serious sepsis. If the woman develops high BP, see https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/resources/heart/hbp-pregnancy. Also, please see this: https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/pregcomplica...
Keeping we the people ignorant of truth & facts, is in a corrupt fascist government's favorite. Our maternal/infant mortality rates are now equaling those of third world countries.
Physicians and the mother have the RIGHT to decide, & the RIGHT to medical coverage of complications. Stop deflecting w/the vasectomy question.
Keeping we the people ignorant of truth & facts, is in a corrupt fascist government's favorite. Our maternal/infant mortality rates are now equaling those of third world countries.
Physicians and the mother have the RIGHT to decide, & the RIGHT to medical coverage of complications. Stop deflecting w/the vasectomy question.
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abortion and vasectomy are not the same; but rather vasectomy and sterilization
and yes Viagra is tax-free while in most states tampons and sanitary pads are taxes; first is a "luxury" while second is a must, put differently, men who don't have sex will be ok, while women with blood running down their legs not so much. (sorry to be so graphic)
and yes Viagra is tax-free while in most states tampons and sanitary pads are taxes; first is a "luxury" while second is a must, put differently, men who don't have sex will be ok, while women with blood running down their legs not so much. (sorry to be so graphic)
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I had a miscarriage when I was 23 and had to have a D&C to clear out tissue that was left behind. At that time, in the 80s, it was covered under insurance. Now there are several states that want to not allow D&Cs at all, because apparently, it's a type of abortion. I wouldn't listen to the hype from the pro-life movement. A lot of what they say simply isn't true.
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As a woman I have serious issues with gender identity and protests based on gender. I loathe and despise Kellyann Conway, I loathe and abhor Melania Trump, Margaret Thatcher, not a fan of Queen of the Hawk mentality -- Hilary. So marching FOR women, based on gender, pains me. I want to march for all human beings to be treated - uh - humanely. I want to march for the protection and rights of all those powerless to protect themselves -- children, wildlife, animals -- While humans relentlessly demand to be treated with respect and dignity we institutionally force animals to procreate and bring their babies into this world for the sole purpose of killing them. We, as a race, need to wrap our heads around this issue of gender politics and human entitlement -- We need to march for the humane treatment of all sentient creatures. We need to push back on Trump's nihilistic agenda to obliterate the environment and all of the innocent souls who depend on it for life. As a woman, I do not march with women. @johannaclear @nrdc
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As a woman, why is your name John? If you are a woman, you sound like someone with strong opinions and great self-confidence...opportunities gained through the efforts of women who came before you and suffered so you can say whatever you feel. Next time, just say "Thank You"...as a woman, to a woman.
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Well let folks know when the march for all sentient creatures is. In the meantime the women who wanted to march organized something and the people who wanted to show up did. What is the problem with motivated people doing their thing?
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@BlueHaven her name is Johanna, not John. Instead of assuming you know what's best for everyone else why don't you listen to other people's experiences because not all women who are successful owe their success to other women. I've worked with men throughout my entire career as a software engineer and relied on my own hard work and intelligence.
I find that successful people are successful because they find a solution to a problem instead of just complaining about the problem. I can't figure out what this women's movement's proposed solution is. Equal pay is an issue with your boss as we already have an equal pay law. Equal working conditions with your husband is a family issue. Abortion is legal and there are contraceptives available so why would women want abortion as a family planning option and make the government (my taxes) pay for it?
I find that successful people are successful because they find a solution to a problem instead of just complaining about the problem. I can't figure out what this women's movement's proposed solution is. Equal pay is an issue with your boss as we already have an equal pay law. Equal working conditions with your husband is a family issue. Abortion is legal and there are contraceptives available so why would women want abortion as a family planning option and make the government (my taxes) pay for it?
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Brilliant, especially the teachers, taking a day off and leaving working mothers scrabbling for day care. Brilliant; boycott stores so their sales drop and they lay off entry level workers they no longer need. And Ms. Gruver; pure genius leaving a dirty bathroom to show her strength. Good lord what group of bold thinkers thought this one up?
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"scrabbling for day care".
I'm sorry but some of these entries are hilarious.
Are you imagining that the ladies who participate in a march are dropping retail America to its knees and entry level people are dropping like flies and bathrooms are dirty all because your mom went to a march. Lordy, wring that hanky.
I'm sorry but some of these entries are hilarious.
Are you imagining that the ladies who participate in a march are dropping retail America to its knees and entry level people are dropping like flies and bathrooms are dirty all because your mom went to a march. Lordy, wring that hanky.
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Kay -
So the march is completely ineffective and a joke like all the trolls are saying? Okay. Thanks for confirming that.
So the march is completely ineffective and a joke like all the trolls are saying? Okay. Thanks for confirming that.
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It was in response to the attitude of people like you Michael C. What appreciation have you expressed to the women in your life recently?
Too funny. No one really noticed.
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We received an email from the CEO and CFO of the company talking about why women's rights are important. There were talks and online discussion and we were told that we could take off if we wanted to participate in marches.
Thank again, I work in a place that values women.
Thank again, I work in a place that values women.
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It was very frustrating to be at the rally in New York and not see ONE woman with a disability in the crowd. Not one disabled speaker and speakers only mentioning disability is passing. I hope that the women's movement will starting including more than just abled bodied women!
Since many disabilities are "invisible," just because you didn't SEE it, doesn't mean it wasn't there.
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Brilliant women!!! Hats off to those brave enough to stand up for those who cannot be there. We respect and admire you. This needs to be only the beginning of a game changing movement . Sexism is as unjust as racism. We will not stop until every woman is osid for the same work equally. A white woman gets roughly 78% a man does and a black woman 60%. We keep on this until ALL are equal . Write, petition, march, organise! It's interesting how many men are threatened and sniping about this . It means we are on the right track!! Real men stand up and for us . Side by side we go together.
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As a woman, may I say (1) in this era we are blessed to have equality in this country that rivals any other point in history -- to the point of possibly having over corrected (anything male is now seen as evil -- and that is just wrong, balance is important); (2) with some women (who will never be satisfied, and will always make trouble) being out of the office today -- I find it a much more peaceful, focused, and productive environment. But that is just me! From my perspective, can we encourage an even more drastic step: PROTEST EVERY DAY BY QUITTING WORK! That will really teach us who know how to work in business! After today's experience I would welcome such a movement (and maybe even businesses would welcome it as well -- let's try it and see what happens).
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Eleanor,
Your comment just indicates that you identify with the male-centric version of life. Your entire comment is wrong decause your initial premise that we have equality in this country is dead wrong. As long as women are paid less and treated worse than men, there is NOT equality.
Your comment just indicates that you identify with the male-centric version of life. Your entire comment is wrong decause your initial premise that we have equality in this country is dead wrong. As long as women are paid less and treated worse than men, there is NOT equality.
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Does anyone really believe in Open borders besides Hillary Clinton and big multinational corporations? If borders are meaningless then corporations will become the new states. The nation of Pepsi needs more $5/day workers....
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Isis would love open borders also.
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I want a Day Without Police Abusing Their Power.
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Seems like a socialist movement cloaked appropriately in a red dress. From the New York Times opinion page today.
“The language of feminism in recent years has been used to talk about ‘Lean In’ feminism,” says Ms. Bhattacharya. “We do not want a world where women become C.E.O.s, we want a world where there are no C.E.O.s, and wealth is redistributed equally.” This, she explains, is why they decided to convey their “new international feminist movement” around the socialist philosophy of “Feminism for the 99 Percent.”
The slogan evokes the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement intentionally. “We thought that Occupy had a wonderful resonance in being able to articulate that the problem with our lives was not just the one issue or the two issues,” Ms. Bhattacharya explains. “The problem with our lives was the system of exploitation and oppression that affects the vast majority of people while a minority, the one percent, profited from it.”
“The language of feminism in recent years has been used to talk about ‘Lean In’ feminism,” says Ms. Bhattacharya. “We do not want a world where women become C.E.O.s, we want a world where there are no C.E.O.s, and wealth is redistributed equally.” This, she explains, is why they decided to convey their “new international feminist movement” around the socialist philosophy of “Feminism for the 99 Percent.”
The slogan evokes the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement intentionally. “We thought that Occupy had a wonderful resonance in being able to articulate that the problem with our lives was not just the one issue or the two issues,” Ms. Bhattacharya explains. “The problem with our lives was the system of exploitation and oppression that affects the vast majority of people while a minority, the one percent, profited from it.”
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I'd much prefer democratic socialism to the corporate fascism we seem to be embracing now. I'm sick of "socialism" being an insult akin to eating your own children.
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Well, I guess a lot of women--especially single, low-income women earning hourly wages--are scrambling to find alternative childcare because teachers are with the resistance today...
The women thrillingly energized today aren't, clearly, the ones exhausted by the day-to-day struggle to survive; the ones who have to make the deadlines while their progressive female bosses are off huddling with their own ilk.
Women don't need and never have needed slogans or movements. They need every small act of kindness, consideration and empathy every other woman they encounter throughout their day can offer them.
I used to commute between Queens and Manhattan on an express bus mostly filled with middle-class employees heading to the Financial District. In the summer I often had to bring my little boy with me, either to daycare at the Y or to hang out in my office's conference room while I worked. People on that bus liked not to sit next to anyone else if they could avoid it. No woman ever voluntarily moved to sit next to another passenger so I could sit with my child.
Take that as a metaphor for what women's solidarity looks like in the real world.
The women thrillingly energized today aren't, clearly, the ones exhausted by the day-to-day struggle to survive; the ones who have to make the deadlines while their progressive female bosses are off huddling with their own ilk.
Women don't need and never have needed slogans or movements. They need every small act of kindness, consideration and empathy every other woman they encounter throughout their day can offer them.
I used to commute between Queens and Manhattan on an express bus mostly filled with middle-class employees heading to the Financial District. In the summer I often had to bring my little boy with me, either to daycare at the Y or to hang out in my office's conference room while I worked. People on that bus liked not to sit next to anyone else if they could avoid it. No woman ever voluntarily moved to sit next to another passenger so I could sit with my child.
Take that as a metaphor for what women's solidarity looks like in the real world.
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Im sorry but "Women don't need and never have needed slogans or movements" you cant be serious. Despite what you think about the strike IT IS A FACT that women can vote today because other women striked and march. You can wear trousers because of women who fought before you. You can do most of the things you do everydsy because others fought with movements and slogans before.
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Punishing employers is not the answer. Rather than a day without women at work, it should be a day with women standing up for themselves and other's voice by registering to vote. A day where women go to the local election office to register to vote and apply for an absentee ballot for the very next election will make those in power take notice today. If you are already registered, bring a friend who is not yet registered to the courthouse at say a lunch hour. Overwhelming the local jurisdictions and not leaving until every person in line is registered would make an amazing statement. Too many people are complaining about the course of events after either not voting or throwing their vote away. Expanding the voter rolls and increasing the voter rates by women even for the off-presidential year elections will make the power elite take notice and inspire capable and strong women candidates to run. Vote in every election and for every measure, it will make a difference.
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Every woman I know votes. Maybe get the guys to vote for issues that help women.
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I'm sorry that you don't "get it" -- we ARE registered to vote, with very few exceptions. Only women hear things such as:
- Shut up, b* (which is essentially what you're saying here)
- "Dress like a woman" (whatever that means, but I think it means form-fitting dresses and high heels)
- Act like a lady
- Women can't do * because *
- Women can make what a man makes when they do "as good a job as a man"
We are fed up with all that.
- Shut up, b* (which is essentially what you're saying here)
- "Dress like a woman" (whatever that means, but I think it means form-fitting dresses and high heels)
- Act like a lady
- Women can't do * because *
- Women can make what a man makes when they do "as good a job as a man"
We are fed up with all that.
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Agreed, our #1 goal right now should be 100% registration of everyone turning 18 by November 2018, and 100% turnout for the 2018 election. Quite frankly, only 58% of eligible voters is unacceptable, and is a big part of the reason we are in this mess in the first place. Effectively, we are now under minority rule, and I assure you, old straight white Christian guys ARE a minority!
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The organizers of this event lost me completely when they brought onboard Rasmea Odeh and put anti-Zionism on their platform.
This is becoming more and more typical on the left and is profoundly alienating. If they want to know why they're losing support, that's a good place to start looking. There are plenty of left-leaning women who are not so stupid as to think there's nothing fishy behind anti-Zionism being elevated as a prerequisite for being a good lefty (see also: the Black Lives Matter platform) while there's silence from the organizers about so many regimes around the world that brutally oppress women.
I, and many other Jewish women, will not be their useful idiots. Not now and not ever.
This is becoming more and more typical on the left and is profoundly alienating. If they want to know why they're losing support, that's a good place to start looking. There are plenty of left-leaning women who are not so stupid as to think there's nothing fishy behind anti-Zionism being elevated as a prerequisite for being a good lefty (see also: the Black Lives Matter platform) while there's silence from the organizers about so many regimes around the world that brutally oppress women.
I, and many other Jewish women, will not be their useful idiots. Not now and not ever.
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My sentiments exactly. Adding the anti- Israel litmus test to membership in their movement delegitimizes the entire movement, creating a hostile environment for Jewish women and those non-Jewish ones who are not prone to Israel bashing. Typical ignoring of numerous Muslim countries where women are demeaned, hidden away and honor-executed. Knee-jerk leftism serves no one. How about a day without Jews to appreciate the vital contributions of Jewish women (and men) to everyone's lives.
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In Moscow, men lined up at flower stalls at the Rizhsky Market to buy bouquets to honor their female relatives.
Hehehehe....
La Restance...
All over the world, you say? And this is your example?
Hehehehe....
La Restance...
All over the world, you say? And this is your example?
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In other words, business as usual in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Bloc countries for March 8th each year. I doubt many of the men lined up to buy flowers were much aware of the protests in the US...they were just buying flowers for the women in their lives to celebrate the yearly International Women's Day as per usual. LOL!!
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One of the main reasons I go backpacking is to have a couple days without a woman. But then I want to see her again.
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Movements don't happen all at once, with everyone participating equally in everything. Some of the protests will have many people participating, some will have few. Some will involve specific more privileged groups, some will be more accessible to many. Some will have big negative impacts on others, some will not. But ultimately, we need protest, shared actions of all sizes and shapes, and a commitment to keep acting. Let's celebrate that commitment rather than critique for its imperfections, build up the movement overall rather than tear down the parts we don't like.
We need to remember that real, lasting sustainable change requires institutions, laws, social norms, and expectations to shift. It's not individuals changing their behavior, but rather the drivers of individual behavior changing. That type of change doesn't happen one woman at a time or one type of woman at a time. Let's think big and commit long-term while taking each small action that we can take and celebrating the actions of others even when we couldn't take the action ourselves.
We need to remember that real, lasting sustainable change requires institutions, laws, social norms, and expectations to shift. It's not individuals changing their behavior, but rather the drivers of individual behavior changing. That type of change doesn't happen one woman at a time or one type of woman at a time. Let's think big and commit long-term while taking each small action that we can take and celebrating the actions of others even when we couldn't take the action ourselves.
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Yeah. I am a feminist. I marched for the ERA when I was 18 in the 1970's. We were marching for A"Women's Rights." Not "Palestinian Rights, Not Open Borders (please tell me who really wants OPEN BORDERS!!!). Any abortion on demand, even up to and including BIRTH???
I no longer understand these women who organize these events and what they stand for. They seem to stand for anything they want at any particular time. Keep adding more and more to the requested pot.
Equal pay for equal work: yes. Women need to focus on what's really important. This isn't about Trump.
I no longer understand these women who organize these events and what they stand for. They seem to stand for anything they want at any particular time. Keep adding more and more to the requested pot.
Equal pay for equal work: yes. Women need to focus on what's really important. This isn't about Trump.
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Here we go again...yet another ride down Counterproductive Highway to Alienation Lane. So school is closed? Way to help spread your "message"---NOT! This nonsense hurts the very people the marchers and organizers claim to be so concerned about: quite analogous to the race riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968 when mobs destroyed black businesses and homes in their own neighborhoods. Let's be accurate and call it "A Day Without Spoiled Anti-Semite Brats".
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Good God. Pretty sure it doesnt take ladies in the street wanting equal rights to get your Whine Line going. "analogous to race riots"?? Maybe some decaf buddy.
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Dear NYT!
Thank you for adding these new areas on articles at the end that explain the details with factual info about for example, a day without women. I didn't know about this day.
At least these explanations are new to me, abd they explain the various themes, ideas in your articles. I've been seeing these the last few days and they are wonderful. You did it with the wiretap story, explaining what it was and meant and you did it here too.
Thank you! Incredibly helpful to me.
I appreciate the hard work you do, for women(me) men, children, all of us.
You support thinking.
I support all humans and I know it's threatening for me therefore to men when challenged to look at how they may have been socialized... And women too. So much if it is latent.
I hope we can keep talking.
Thank you for adding these new areas on articles at the end that explain the details with factual info about for example, a day without women. I didn't know about this day.
At least these explanations are new to me, abd they explain the various themes, ideas in your articles. I've been seeing these the last few days and they are wonderful. You did it with the wiretap story, explaining what it was and meant and you did it here too.
Thank you! Incredibly helpful to me.
I appreciate the hard work you do, for women(me) men, children, all of us.
You support thinking.
I support all humans and I know it's threatening for me therefore to men when challenged to look at how they may have been socialized... And women too. So much if it is latent.
I hope we can keep talking.
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I have and have always had a great respect for my women as my co-workers, care givers, partners, aunts, and parents. I'm mystified, afraid and angered by the increased hostility toward women, people of color, people of different faiths, people of different genders, all people that has become so much more open and obvious since the last election and in the words and actions of Mr. Trump and his disciples. America, we are better than this!
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To those men (I suspect) who are saying that we women are "whining" and "playing the victim," that we have no reason to protest today: you are welcome to make 70% or less of what your colleagues do for the same work; be catcalled when you walk down the street; have to do the majority of housework and childcare when you return from work; sometimes need to raise children with no financial support from their mother; face a higher rate of spousal abuse; etc. I suspect you would "whine" too.
Yes, this protest had problems with its implementation, because it's true that many women do not have the option to take off from work. But the ideas behind it are rock-solid.
Yes, this protest had problems with its implementation, because it's true that many women do not have the option to take off from work. But the ideas behind it are rock-solid.
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Women pick their husbands. Don't pick men who are abusive or negligent. From what I see in the dating world, women pick men for height. I know plenty of good, gentle, generous men between 5' 5" and 5' 8" who would love to be husbands, but who don't get the chance, because they are not tall enough. If i sound bitter, it's because I am. I very sincerely think that if women did NOT care about height, there would be fewer unmarried mothers and less domestic abuse. I just don't think a lot guys who are the size of Jon Stewart beat their wives, but I could be wrong.
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Let's get serious about pay equity. The "70%" figure is based on an aggregate. It does not mean that individual women get paid 70% of what a man earns for performing the same work. Reputable economists have concluded that factoring in such variables as length of service, amount of vacation time, educational attainment and other factors reduce the aggregate numbers to less than 4%. Paying women less for the same work as men has been illegal since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and many individual women have successfully sued companies for this. The Lily Ledbetter act extended the time that a woman may file a complaint from the first instance of discrimination to the last instance of discrimination
The myth that the 70% figure applied to individual women is the result of the big lie Clinton promoted during her campaign. It didn't work for her, and it contributed greatly to the victimhood narrative that still permeates the demonstrations since Trump's elections.
These "Spin to Win" tactics are used by politicians on both sides when the truth won't contribute to the advancement of their agendas. They are cheap tricks used by cheap politicians to inflame their base and they are the great engines of polarization. All politicians understand this but many do not care.
The myth that the 70% figure applied to individual women is the result of the big lie Clinton promoted during her campaign. It didn't work for her, and it contributed greatly to the victimhood narrative that still permeates the demonstrations since Trump's elections.
These "Spin to Win" tactics are used by politicians on both sides when the truth won't contribute to the advancement of their agendas. They are cheap tricks used by cheap politicians to inflame their base and they are the great engines of polarization. All politicians understand this but many do not care.
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The piecemealed federal laws ensuring pay equity are not sufficient. The ERA needs to be passed. If, according to your sources, we've already achieved that, there should be no issue in passing it, should there be? If, however, the gender pay gap DOES exist (see the Catalyst project sponsored by Harvard Business Review as a great starting point), then it becomes more obvious the ERA is needed immediately.
http://www.catalyst.org/issues/pay-gap
http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/why.htm
http://www.catalyst.org/issues/pay-gap
http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/why.htm
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Women need to wake up FAST to the urgency of bigger issues like the nightmarish GOP health care policy and disasterous global climate change, and I say that as a woman myself.
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I went to work today. Im not going to not make money for a day to prove nothing to anybody. This should just be called "rich women who can afford to take a day off dont work day"
I like how we arent supposed to spend money, except at women owned or minority owned places. How is some hardware store owned by an old white man hurting women? Unless a black man or a woman owns it, it must be bad.
I dislike this whole concept. This accomplishes nothing, and wont convince anybody to change. The Democrats are in love with corporations and the Republicans are in love with the elites. Inequality is not just a woman vs man or black vs white issue. Its the 1% vs the 99%, and us dividing ourselves further is just going to serve the needs of the 1%
I like how we arent supposed to spend money, except at women owned or minority owned places. How is some hardware store owned by an old white man hurting women? Unless a black man or a woman owns it, it must be bad.
I dislike this whole concept. This accomplishes nothing, and wont convince anybody to change. The Democrats are in love with corporations and the Republicans are in love with the elites. Inequality is not just a woman vs man or black vs white issue. Its the 1% vs the 99%, and us dividing ourselves further is just going to serve the needs of the 1%
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I don't know about that Jacqueline. The Stonewall Riots gave way to marches and protests and helped you be where you are today
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"This accomplishes nothing, and wont convince anybody to change"
Well the Eeyore contingency just checked in.
Lol.
Well the Eeyore contingency just checked in.
Lol.
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Why are working class people so, so defensive? The march today had nothing to do with class. Women just want to be included equally as adults.
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These manufactured protests are nothing more than another orchestrated temper tantrum because Hillary Clinton didn't win the presidency. Spare me the 'popular vote' talking points because it's been done to death. Only the Electoral College matters and that's why President Tweety Bird is in the Oval Office now.
Enough with these hissy fits already because they accomplish absolutely nothing. Believe it or not plenty of women (I wasn't one of them) out there voted for Donald Trump. So do we repeal the 19th Amendment too because there are women out there who actually wanted Donald Trump to be the next president? Think about it.
Enough with these hissy fits already because they accomplish absolutely nothing. Believe it or not plenty of women (I wasn't one of them) out there voted for Donald Trump. So do we repeal the 19th Amendment too because there are women out there who actually wanted Donald Trump to be the next president? Think about it.
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It is the INTERNATIONAL womens day. People all around the globe has marched amd strike. It has nothing to do with Hillary Clinton . And they do accomplish things. They gave women the right to vote, they gave people of color the freedom to be themselves.
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the international women gave women the right to vote and people of color the right to be themselves. you better take a close look at Africa and the middle east cause I don't think they have received the message.
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How about an international 'Day Without A Man'...give us all a break from warmongering, sexism, and patriarchy. Might become "Peace on Earth" in a few years if things take hold.
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And feminists wonder why they are often accused of hating men!
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Have you watched any of the "housewives" shows?
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That is the best idea on this page. Just like Ayn Rand,However , we want to take all our stuff with us including but not limited to , music , poetry, film, painting sculpture, history etc. You can keep the pointy sticks so you can gather, but no hunting for you.
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It is dream come true. A day without a woman,means a day free of anxiety and fear, a day without being scolded, reminded , remonstrated and regaled . Oh if it were only true. Yes I would have to do more stuff, but that's ok , cause we only let them do it to focus their attention away from us.
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I hope this event is HALF as successful as the February general strike that brought the nation to a halt.
I, for one, cannot wait till we return to real activism instead of this on-going simulacrum of resistance (the newest buzzword).
A day here and a day there which segments the population will not stem the tide of the neo-Reagan agenda now abroad (no pun intended) in the land.
What is the ribbon or hat for this happening?
https://emcphd.wordpress.com
I, for one, cannot wait till we return to real activism instead of this on-going simulacrum of resistance (the newest buzzword).
A day here and a day there which segments the population will not stem the tide of the neo-Reagan agenda now abroad (no pun intended) in the land.
What is the ribbon or hat for this happening?
https://emcphd.wordpress.com
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"Brought the nation to a halt"... What planet was that on....?
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My point exactly.
https://emcphd.wordpress.com
https://emcphd.wordpress.com
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Go on to Wikipedia and search "neoliberal" and "gender gap"
Do the organizers just not realize how many women do not have the luxury of 'protesting'?
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I wonder how many actresses on Broadway will not show up tonight?
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Ridiculous point. The women that can and do represent . It will never all align. Just bc not ALL African Americans could take a day off to protest with MLK does not mean it should not happen. Change is not made by sniping from afar in front of a computer.
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That my friend, is the royal flush of identity politics. You actually accused the people who are out accusing people of being elitist/racist/classist/sexist of being elitist/racist/classist/sexist.
Well played!
Well played!
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Working in an industry where the number of men far outweighs the number of women, I gave some thought taking the day off. I had to ask myself, in an industry where we are working hard to encourage women to join, does not showing up help or hurt our cause. Will my male co-workers even notice or understand why? I'm fairly certain, if I had taken the day off, most of them would ask if I had been out sick when I returned to work on Thursday.
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but why do men outnumber women? It seems like there are more male physicists and chemists than female ones, but is this because of hiring discrimination, or do fewer women earn degrees in chemistry and physics?
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So show up for work, wear red for solidarity, support only women-owned businesses for the day, and support the others? That's not too difficult to do. Some men are showing solidarity and support, as well. Those fellows are appreciated and I'm sure the women in their lives will show it in return.
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This is an event for the privileged only. Those who can afford to take time off from work, to show up for a protest. If you can't risk losing your job or can't afford to take time off if you are an hourly or self-employed contractor, this event is not for you.
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No, actually. It's easier for the privileged, but isn't everything? If you're passionate enough about an issue you'll attend. But if you really think missing a day will cost you your job, no one is judging you or marking you absent from the protest.
It seems the problem is not that you can't attend "A Day without a Woman" but that you're angry there is such a day. Why is that?
It seems the problem is not that you can't attend "A Day without a Woman" but that you're angry there is such a day. Why is that?
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Not only that, but the organizers have stated that the intent is to push Marxist policies of equal distribution of wealth and presumably state control of business ("We do not want a world where women become C.E.O.s, we want a world where there are no C.E.O.s" - Tithi Bhattacharya)
It is as blind as Trump supporters not paying attention to what they are signing themselves up for.
It is as blind as Trump supporters not paying attention to what they are signing themselves up for.
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It is actually only for Democrat priviledged women. If you dont believe in Open borders or Hamas, then this event isnt for you.
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I am a little bit confused - March, the 8th is International Women's Day.
Seems like the worst day to protest...
A day without a woman?
Seems like the worst day to protest...
A day without a woman?
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It's an international movement and the protest is to champion women's rights. It's perfect.
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In Manhattan it is impossible to tell anything is different.
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I would expect most sympathetic Manhattanites are wearing red and limiting shopping. True change doesn't always happen in one day and differences aren't always visible immediately.
This protest, and the day without immigrants that preceded it are a good start. Unfortunately, students of history will realize that unless people can pull off a true general strike the movement will remain fragmented. Popular programs such as Social Security didn't just get created in a vacuum. In the 1930s large scale general strikes engulfed many American cities. It was in this display of public opinion, often brutally repressed, that policy makers felt compelled to make changes that benefited so many.
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I'm a short guy (5' 7"). Short men have a tougher time dating, and studies show that tall men earn more and get more easily promoted. What a day without short guys? Or a day without Jewish (short) guys (I'm Jewish and short)? Imagine a day when no guy under 5' 10" showed up to work.
I don't mean to mock women's protest, but I am no longer certain what feminists want. In general, they get the same pay as men now. Do they want BACK pay? Do they want HIGHER pay than men? I saw an article in the NYT about women being angry that they are asked to wear high heels, but then on dating sites, I see thousands of women say, 'I like my heels and will date only men taller than I am when I war my heels." Therefore, high heels are BOTH a form of oppression AND something that women (at least in NYC0 seem to worship like a religion. For men, these are mixed signals. You hate heels, but love them. Men are, by in large, required to wear ties to work.
What is it that woman women now? Do they want to be treated like men, or do they want to be Cinderella? Do they want both whenever the mood strikes? What EXACTLY is the unified agenda of world feminism today?
I don't mean to mock women's protest, but I am no longer certain what feminists want. In general, they get the same pay as men now. Do they want BACK pay? Do they want HIGHER pay than men? I saw an article in the NYT about women being angry that they are asked to wear high heels, but then on dating sites, I see thousands of women say, 'I like my heels and will date only men taller than I am when I war my heels." Therefore, high heels are BOTH a form of oppression AND something that women (at least in NYC0 seem to worship like a religion. For men, these are mixed signals. You hate heels, but love them. Men are, by in large, required to wear ties to work.
What is it that woman women now? Do they want to be treated like men, or do they want to be Cinderella? Do they want both whenever the mood strikes? What EXACTLY is the unified agenda of world feminism today?
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they don't know, they are just unhappy these very select few. ignore them.
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I'm not Ivy League. I don't understand your comment.
Don't women have equal opportunity now? When I was in college, I knew a lot of women who majored in Women's Studies and not in STEM or economics. Therefore, they denied themselves the opportunity to get high paying jobs in STEM and economics. If a woman wants a high paying job in finance, she nee to get an MBA. Many women do get an MBA and many of those women have a high paying job in finance.
When I took my field exam in my Phd program two of the three professors on my exam committee were women. I've always had as many female professors as male professors.
The heels thing is just annoying. I see hundreds (even thousands) of women a year online ruling out men under 5' 10" or 6 feet tall because they want to be able to wear 5 inch heels and still have the man be taller. Why would a feminist care that a man is taller? Isn't that old school gender role playing? Of course this matters to me, because I am 5' 7" and trying to date online. It's odd to see women who say, "I'm a feminist, but I still like tall guys ;)"
You seem to get the heels thing. Then, please, explain it. My question is sincere. Why do women seem so obsessed with heels yet also so resentful of them? Men do not understand this issue.
Don't women have equal opportunity now? When I was in college, I knew a lot of women who majored in Women's Studies and not in STEM or economics. Therefore, they denied themselves the opportunity to get high paying jobs in STEM and economics. If a woman wants a high paying job in finance, she nee to get an MBA. Many women do get an MBA and many of those women have a high paying job in finance.
When I took my field exam in my Phd program two of the three professors on my exam committee were women. I've always had as many female professors as male professors.
The heels thing is just annoying. I see hundreds (even thousands) of women a year online ruling out men under 5' 10" or 6 feet tall because they want to be able to wear 5 inch heels and still have the man be taller. Why would a feminist care that a man is taller? Isn't that old school gender role playing? Of course this matters to me, because I am 5' 7" and trying to date online. It's odd to see women who say, "I'm a feminist, but I still like tall guys ;)"
You seem to get the heels thing. Then, please, explain it. My question is sincere. Why do women seem so obsessed with heels yet also so resentful of them? Men do not understand this issue.
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Avery, I'm sorry that being short and Jewish is such a burden for you (it doesn't seem to hold Woody Allen back...).
But being short and Jewish is no excuse for propagating the lie that women are paid the same as men: it ain't true, babe, and you know it. And short women earn even less than tall women, who earn less than both tall and short men, so I don't want to hear that "I'm so oppressed" whine from you - you still start out with Guy's Wages.
As for wearing heels, well, there's a significant difference between wearing them in private because they make you feel maybe a touch more elegant, and being forced to wear them as you trudge through the office all day schlepping files around or stooping to locate documents in a bottom drawer. For those of us who wore them for our own satisfaction when we were younger, knee injuries in our 30s or later may have pretty much put them out of reach - am I supposed to lose my job over that? Tell me you never loosen your tie at work - I've worked in plenty of places where the ties all hung on the back of the door along with the suit jacket: symbols of authority just waiting for their moment to arrive.
Frankly, if you're having trouble meeting any of those thousands of women you're drooling over on dating sites I'm guessing it's because of your attitude and not your "altitude"...and why should women need a global "unified agenda" anyway?
Go call your mother and complain to her. I bet she'll set you straight.
But being short and Jewish is no excuse for propagating the lie that women are paid the same as men: it ain't true, babe, and you know it. And short women earn even less than tall women, who earn less than both tall and short men, so I don't want to hear that "I'm so oppressed" whine from you - you still start out with Guy's Wages.
As for wearing heels, well, there's a significant difference between wearing them in private because they make you feel maybe a touch more elegant, and being forced to wear them as you trudge through the office all day schlepping files around or stooping to locate documents in a bottom drawer. For those of us who wore them for our own satisfaction when we were younger, knee injuries in our 30s or later may have pretty much put them out of reach - am I supposed to lose my job over that? Tell me you never loosen your tie at work - I've worked in plenty of places where the ties all hung on the back of the door along with the suit jacket: symbols of authority just waiting for their moment to arrive.
Frankly, if you're having trouble meeting any of those thousands of women you're drooling over on dating sites I'm guessing it's because of your attitude and not your "altitude"...and why should women need a global "unified agenda" anyway?
Go call your mother and complain to her. I bet she'll set you straight.
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Of course it's easy to take the day off when you have a union or government job. Not every woman has the luxury of taking the day off and still getting paid!!
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Trump is not an aberration. He is failed patriarchy taken to its logical conclusion.
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What a poorly conceived and counterproductive protest.
The article ducks the question of the means by which participants are taking time off from their jobs, but the implications are clear. Many are likely violating obligations to their employers, and some are breaking the law.
Women who don’t hold jobs or who have been given legitimate time off should feel free to participate in whatever legal protests they wish. Wearing red is fine.
But not women who have obligations to work. Do not these people have a sense of responsibility?
Folks (of either gender) who call in sick when they are not sick, or who simply take unauthorized time off, are violating their contractual obligations and in some cases violating the law. They should be held accountable, and punished with docked pay, forfeited vacation time, and other reasonable penalties up to and including loss of their jobs.
Students whose schools are closed will suffer. How many teachers who thought Betsy DeVos was bad for education are now truly harming education by closing classrooms? Seems hypocritical.
As a taxpayer, I feel robbed when public employees take time off to which they are not entitled. I am paying for the services that are not available today. I’m sure business owners feel the same.
Wonder why some folks object to laws requiring mandatory paid sick time? It’s because such privileges are abused, as they are today.
Today’s strike will do little good, and appropriately create resentment. It is a mistake.
The article ducks the question of the means by which participants are taking time off from their jobs, but the implications are clear. Many are likely violating obligations to their employers, and some are breaking the law.
Women who don’t hold jobs or who have been given legitimate time off should feel free to participate in whatever legal protests they wish. Wearing red is fine.
But not women who have obligations to work. Do not these people have a sense of responsibility?
Folks (of either gender) who call in sick when they are not sick, or who simply take unauthorized time off, are violating their contractual obligations and in some cases violating the law. They should be held accountable, and punished with docked pay, forfeited vacation time, and other reasonable penalties up to and including loss of their jobs.
Students whose schools are closed will suffer. How many teachers who thought Betsy DeVos was bad for education are now truly harming education by closing classrooms? Seems hypocritical.
As a taxpayer, I feel robbed when public employees take time off to which they are not entitled. I am paying for the services that are not available today. I’m sure business owners feel the same.
Wonder why some folks object to laws requiring mandatory paid sick time? It’s because such privileges are abused, as they are today.
Today’s strike will do little good, and appropriately create resentment. It is a mistake.
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All women work. Most don't get paid for half of what they do. How many mothers get paid for 2 am feedings? Doing laundry? Cooking dinner? Food planning? Buying the kids clothes? getting them to school? Imagine if society had to pay for all that work? Maybe we owe them a bit more than respect and gratitude. We owe them a seat at the table.
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Don't worry. Your resentment only costs 75cents to the dollar. Consider it a bargain. Lol.
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Well, funny thing. As a woman--born female, childhood as a girl, and now in my mature years--I've always found my most vicious antagonists to have been other girls and women. My warmest friendships have been equally among women and men. As someone who always worked in supporting positions, in a variety of office jobs, most of which were in the non-profit field in NY, I found that the sort of well-educated liberals who were Her henchwomen were the least likely to understand or care about the real-life-day-to-day struggle women like me endured. The absolute very worst were those whose mission was to "raise the consciousness" of and offer a variety of strategies to impoverished women around the globe.
Sisterhood is neither global nor local. The very best friends of the women's center I founded in Pakistan were men. The most daunting impediments to the young women and girls who wanted to join our program was the ruthless opposition of mothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, who were often blood relatives as well.
Fix what's wrong with how women treat each other, and the men will be laughably impotent to get in anyone's way.
Sisterhood is neither global nor local. The very best friends of the women's center I founded in Pakistan were men. The most daunting impediments to the young women and girls who wanted to join our program was the ruthless opposition of mothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, who were often blood relatives as well.
Fix what's wrong with how women treat each other, and the men will be laughably impotent to get in anyone's way.
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My experience has been much the same, from tender childhood on - my greatest advocates, confidantes, and never-back-stabbing friends have been boys and men. I have had a lifetime of longing for a female I could trust, laying bare my heart without worry. Why are we so vicious with each other? Is it the underlying fear of being replaced in men's eyes?
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Case in point, take a look at the protest's spokesperson's Sarah Leonard's twitter account. Your not a real feminist unless you follow her guidelines. Women aren't free to make their own choices, only support her's.
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rdp: I never have been and don't want to be a "feminist." I'd call myself a humanist if that didn't have a particular meaning that tends to exclude me. As the mother of a son, I have no especial desire to give myself a label that perhaps implies he should be on my side, instead of both of us on each other's sides, and on the sides of all good people everywhere, regardless of their sexual equipment.
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I am supporting this event and enjoying every moment. Today I have contacted my congressman and senator's, requesting and investigation into Russia involvement in the 2016 presidential campaign, along with asking Donald Trump to release his tax returns. I have held my wallet from republican support retail companies and requested they to stop sending me catalogs. I have however shopped at local women owned and environmentally conscious businesses (thank you panagonia). I even have had time to prepare for our local women's huddle this coming Friday (planning, strategy, action plan). What a difference a day can make.
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We need everyone, even those privileged enough to enjoy every minute. I'm too scared of the GOP right now to enjoy anything. I contact my members of Congress daily. I haven't received a catalog in years, or walked into a mall or a large retailer or turned on a television in decades. Welcome to the woman's movement. It's been going on for years and years and years. When people start getting beat up, or killed or arrested and charged, (again) maybe we'll turn in those pussy hats for hard hats and get really serious.
Is anyone hitting protest fatigue?
I find myself waiting for "A Day Without Protests".
I find myself waiting for "A Day Without Protests".
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Where is the coverage in the TV media? For shame!
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Just more identity politics from the Left... I was once a Democrat, and this in part is why I left, they've created a political landscape thast just too divisive. AND, this is exactly why they lost the election. People are sick and tired of being treated differently just because of their skin color, sex, or religion. Shouldn't everyone in this Country be treated equally under the law? Why do some select groups enjoy more benefits and have greater advantages than others? WE ALL HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS whether we have vaginas or not!
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We don't all have the same rights. That is is the point. Women earn anywhere from 50 to 75% of the salary as men for doing the same kind of work. Politicians are determining medical procedures for women's reproductive medical care. None of this would be happening if identity groups such as women, immigraants, gay, lesbians, and so on were treated fairly.
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@lulu
Please stop spreading alternative facts and educate yourself.
Factoring differences in education, experience, age, location, job title, industry and even company , our latest research reveals that the “adjusted” gender pay gap in the U.S. amounts to women earning about 94.6 cents per dollar compared to men. It is remarkable that a significant gap persists even after comparing male-female worker pay at the job title and company level. This smaller, yet still substantial pay gap is largely bias – whether intended or unintended – and it can’t be explained by the data.
Please stop spreading alternative facts and educate yourself.
Factoring differences in education, experience, age, location, job title, industry and even company , our latest research reveals that the “adjusted” gender pay gap in the U.S. amounts to women earning about 94.6 cents per dollar compared to men. It is remarkable that a significant gap persists even after comparing male-female worker pay at the job title and company level. This smaller, yet still substantial pay gap is largely bias – whether intended or unintended – and it can’t be explained by the data.
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Mike, your daughter/wife/sister does not make the same $$$ as her male counterpart.
Whatever you would like to call that particular Fact needs changing.
Whatever you would like to call that particular Fact needs changing.
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Folks who are complaining about teachers not going into work - that is the point. We can't expect women to always be there to rescue and fix everything. A day without women is to show how we take women and their work for granted. I showed up at work wearing red along with some other women, only to be mocked by others. "Oh, I guess we didn't get the memo." Yes, sweetheart and neither did equal pay for your paycheck.
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How does "taking women for granted" relate to:
Environmental Justice
Immigrant Rights
Police Brutality
Farmers Minimum Wage
Clean air and water for Indigenous People
I understand reproductive, gender and everything else directly related to women.
Environmental Justice
Immigrant Rights
Police Brutality
Farmers Minimum Wage
Clean air and water for Indigenous People
I understand reproductive, gender and everything else directly related to women.
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Really? Where is the dedication of the professional to take care of what needs to be done. Teachers are not rescuing and fixing, they are teaching and the more they don't teach is more that the men have to fix. BTW, men teach too.
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Would you support a "Day without Men" to highlight how men 'and their work are taken for granted'? Please stop partitioning the progressive cause with fractious identity politics. Men and women are in this together, and to imply a worldwide patriarchy structure to suppress women is downright conspiratorial. Rightly so, it turns off many Independent and moderate Republican voters who would otherwise support the cause. I strongly feel the support of regressive idealogy, such as Third Wave Feminism, lost the past election.
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Hey NYT: IWD is not over yet! Much more to come! Stay tuned readers!
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Left out of article as reasons to protest:
Global Gag Rule which denies funds to any non profit that suggests or discusses abortion, let alone perform one, anywhere in the world. The Guttmacher Institute estimates that Trump's reinstatment of the gag rule will lead to an estimated 20,000 deaths. Abortion doesn't go away. Illegal abortion is deadly.
Denial of funds to PlannedParenthood which delivers health care all across America, especially in rural areas where there is little medical care, to men and women under Medicaid. They are like any other healthcare facility except they meet the needs of poor, college kids, who repro care. But they also provide affordable abortions to women who choose that route.
Obviously Trump and his fellow republicans are doing their best to limit women's reproductive medical care and choices.
People tend to forget forced birth=forced abortion. Neither respects the rights of women to make their own decisions with regards to their bodies.
Global Gag Rule which denies funds to any non profit that suggests or discusses abortion, let alone perform one, anywhere in the world. The Guttmacher Institute estimates that Trump's reinstatment of the gag rule will lead to an estimated 20,000 deaths. Abortion doesn't go away. Illegal abortion is deadly.
Denial of funds to PlannedParenthood which delivers health care all across America, especially in rural areas where there is little medical care, to men and women under Medicaid. They are like any other healthcare facility except they meet the needs of poor, college kids, who repro care. But they also provide affordable abortions to women who choose that route.
Obviously Trump and his fellow republicans are doing their best to limit women's reproductive medical care and choices.
People tend to forget forced birth=forced abortion. Neither respects the rights of women to make their own decisions with regards to their bodies.
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Protests specifically focused on this, and other immediate policy issues facing women in the United States, would be far more effective than a generalized and aimless strike run by a group that for some reason thinks it needs "decolonization of Palestine" (read: expulsion of all Jews from the Middle East) on its platform.
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The anti gag rule doesn't make abortion illegal, it just makes sure taxpayers don't pay for others choice. Planned parenthood can continue its mission with dollars from those who choose to contribute. use the money spent on marches to help this cause you are passionate about.
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Gag rule applies to women in. 3rd world countries, not US. It means a non profit organization which delivers health care to these women, anything from pap smears to maternity care, will lose all funding if it even discusses the possibility of abortion with a client, who may actually need one for health reasons, rape or incest. As we see in Texas, you don't have to deny all abortions. Just,place,as many roadblocks as possible to medical care, 24/48/72 hr waits, 2 to 3 visits, and women fall off the medical care wheel. As we see in Texas, death rates for,pregnant women are on par with 3rd world countries. As for gag rule, 20k women expected to die. If a woman can't get legal help for medical issue, you force her into illegal abortion market.
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How about "A Day Without a Woman Complaining"? Even lower class women in the USA live better lives that 90% of the world.
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How about a "Day Without Men Complaining How Good Women Have It?"
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One organizer of 'A Day Without a Woman' is a convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh who went on trial for killing teens! She also lied to get into the US and is now waiting trial...a disgrace to all mothers out there~
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Thank you for bringing up this point. Do these women understand that they are being used as pawns to support her anti semetic agenda?
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The "Day Without a Woman" website states: "The Women's March stands in solidarity with the International Women's Strike organizers..." Given the platform of that organization, which I would encourage people to read, it would seemingly leave a large swath of women on the sidelines. Some excerpts include:
"We demand free abortion without conditions and affordable healthcare for all, irrespective of income, race or citizenship status."
"$15 minimum wage, including for caregivers, free universal child care, paid maternity leave, sick leave, paid family leave and the freedom to organize a fighting union in the workplace."
"...we demand an expansive restructuring of the American welfare system to serve the needs of the majority, such as universal healthcare, robust unemployment and social security benefits, and free education for all."
"...demand for open borders and for immigrant rights and for the decolonization of Palestine"
Whether these particular stances are good or bad is not the point, but rather that these official stances alienate many women who would otherwise be sympathetic to the feminist cause is.
The tent seems like it could be very small.
"We demand free abortion without conditions and affordable healthcare for all, irrespective of income, race or citizenship status."
"$15 minimum wage, including for caregivers, free universal child care, paid maternity leave, sick leave, paid family leave and the freedom to organize a fighting union in the workplace."
"...we demand an expansive restructuring of the American welfare system to serve the needs of the majority, such as universal healthcare, robust unemployment and social security benefits, and free education for all."
"...demand for open borders and for immigrant rights and for the decolonization of Palestine"
Whether these particular stances are good or bad is not the point, but rather that these official stances alienate many women who would otherwise be sympathetic to the feminist cause is.
The tent seems like it could be very small.
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Why A Day Without Women is bringing Palestine into the equation is ridiculous.
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As I sit at my desk decked in read - working right around the corner of the LA based march which I will not be participating in because I am deeply concerned about the agenda of the International Women's Strike. I fear that the platform is moving so far away from it's core - which should be purely about the extremely challenging goal of achieving equality (or opportunity, pay, status) for women - instead has included a bunch of totally unrelated political objectives. While I disagree with some of these tangential objectives and agree with some - I do not believe any should be there - diluting the women's movement. It is challenging enough to get our voices heard and demand that we be treated as equal humans. The idea that we now must subscribe to a litany of unrelated issues to be a part of it - dilutes are core agenda and risks alienate millions of women who might disagree. Let's unite - and keep our eye on our goal. Women's rights are human rights and we want an equal seat at the table. NOW!
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I'm not sure who thought this up, but it sounds like it is someone far removed from the reality of womens' lives. Today, I am the designated driver for my husband to have a much needed operation. All of the work around the house (unpaid) will have to be done by me as he is not supposed to lift anything nor bend below his waist. A friend of mine, a vet, must make house calls on her clients with pregnant animals about to give birth. It is her livelihood. Another friend babysits for her grand kids (unpaid) so her son can go to his job. A friend of my husband's is an LPN and visits her clients to make sure they are taking their meds and doing their rehab. She contributes to the household which she shares with her daughter and grandkids and doesn't get paid unless she works. I could go one and on.
I am very grateful that all the female medical professionals worked today so that my husband could get his much needed operation he waited three months to have scheduled.
Not working, paid or unpaid, is not an option for most women.
I am very grateful that all the female medical professionals worked today so that my husband could get his much needed operation he waited three months to have scheduled.
Not working, paid or unpaid, is not an option for most women.
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...for most anyone.
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"Today, I am the designated driver for my husband to have a much needed operation."
Fine. You're off the hook. Hope everything turns out well. So why do you feel the need to vent anger at the women who can and want to participate today. They are protesting for your rights, too.
Fine. You're off the hook. Hope everything turns out well. So why do you feel the need to vent anger at the women who can and want to participate today. They are protesting for your rights, too.
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That may be true, but especially for those working unpaid, a little appreciation would be nice, but too often what they do for others is taken for granted.
Spare me the sob story of women's "victimhood" in the United States. Stop whining about abortion on demand and minimum wage. It's an old, tired complaint. It's not the government's job to solve your problems. If you don't like your life you have all the power to change it, especially in the United States.
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thats why we have a president who recieved 3 million less votes than the guy in power.
these women disagree with you.
these women disagree with you.
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It's not the government's job to solve our problems? Then what is their job? To save those poor corporations?
The point of a strike is to force those in power to recognize the demands (and power) of those they oversee. One of the best ways to help ourselves get equal pay is to strike for it.
The point of a strike is to force those in power to recognize the demands (and power) of those they oversee. One of the best ways to help ourselves get equal pay is to strike for it.
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Incorrect.
The electoral college is why we have a president who received 3 million less votes than the guy in power.
The electoral college is why we have a president who received 3 million less votes than the guy in power.
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This should be renamed "A Day Without Upper Middle Class Women." Folks who have to actually work for a living aren't playing this little game and contributing to this media creation. In class this morning, my female professor and nearly all my female classmates were there. Right now, I'm in a coffee shop being staffed by three women. There is a group of seven students on lunch from class. My female roommates both went to work.
I see absolutely no sign there's some mass movement in the streets. I'm reading that there is, but I'm not seeing it. Even the photos -- a lone woman handing out fliers, and a group of hippies in Turkey -- are hardly illustrating this imaginary point. I'm making the assumption that the reporter is female, and she went to work today, obviously (my guess is so did most of her female colleagues at the New York Times). Frankly, aside from promoting something that isn't really there, I see this whole "event" as a symbol of the disconnect of academic feminism from the real-world, everyday concerns of women and all people -- namely paying the bills, providing for families, working hard to get ahead in the world and doing so even though both male and female supervisors are judging them on their looks and clothes.
I see absolutely no sign there's some mass movement in the streets. I'm reading that there is, but I'm not seeing it. Even the photos -- a lone woman handing out fliers, and a group of hippies in Turkey -- are hardly illustrating this imaginary point. I'm making the assumption that the reporter is female, and she went to work today, obviously (my guess is so did most of her female colleagues at the New York Times). Frankly, aside from promoting something that isn't really there, I see this whole "event" as a symbol of the disconnect of academic feminism from the real-world, everyday concerns of women and all people -- namely paying the bills, providing for families, working hard to get ahead in the world and doing so even though both male and female supervisors are judging them on their looks and clothes.
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You totally missed the point. A day without a Woman is meant to raise awareness of the contributions women bring to workplace and society. Just because not all the women took the day off, doesn't mean that they don't want people like you to understand and respect them. Hence the message: equal pay, equal rights. etc. I hope you appreciate the women who worked today. All of them, not just lower class women.
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I'm sure all the women who can't afford child care and who were forced to give up a day's pay--and possibly risk their jobs--because their local school was closed are ever-so-grateful for the symbolism displayed by their better-off "sisters." Although it wouldn't surprise me if that was actually one of the goals of the self-entitled narcissists who promulgate this nonsense--"look! It's not just us fat, lazy, overpaid, whiny academics who stayed home from work!"
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I couldn't take the day off today. I wouldn't have gotten paid and my family needs every cent that we earn. But boy am I glad that other women could take the day to protest and make us talk about women's contributions to society. It's always the elite that have the luxury of heading these movements. It was the same in the 1970s with the original wave of feminism, and persists today. The truth is that the gains those upper class women made have been enjoyed by all. Yes, privileged women still have it better than working class women, but working class women today are in a much, much better place because some "spoiled, out-of-touch" women forty years ago got together to say enough is enough.
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In addition to the red do the women have to also wear genitalia hats?
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Whew, thank goodness my favorite baristas stayed on the job. I'm quite share they already know how greatly appreciated they are by their customers, both male and female.
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I want to do a day without housewives. Chubby middle-aged housewifes. I think I will spend it in a spa.... Like that is going to happen....
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This is not a very well organized "protest" but I will support it by wearing red and going to a candlelight vigil tonight. The main causes I support are equal pay for equal work, increasing awareness about violence against women and solidarity with women everywhere in the world who have special struggles often not faced by men. I am not happy that a lot of other political causes were included in today's protest because they are actually exclusionary. I believe women need to respect each other and our differences of philosophies and opinions. I think a truly successful women's movement should embrace women who are pro choice and also women who are pro life....we need to stop fighting among ourselves so much, respect opposing beliefs, and acknowledge the special issues that all women continue to face in the 21st century as well as honor the special issues that women have faced historically.
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You can't support forced birthand call yourself supportive of women. Women should have the basic right to determine how their bodies will be used, not some neighbor, some religious cleric, a male pol in Washingston or her state capital. If your believein forced birth then you have to agree with forced abortion as both psotions deny women the women choice in their reproductive lives.
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As the son of a single mother in the sixties and seventies I observe this event with a little disbelief. Some school districts are closing for the day. If this happened when I was young, I would have had to stay home alone, regardless of my age, because there was no way my mother could afford to take a day off. This would not have been an issue if they had scheduled the event for a weekend. As my mother and I discuss today's women's issues she finds a real disconnect between the facts and the rhetoric. But no mistaking the fact that any single parent in those school districts today is having to scramble and no one from today's movement represents them.
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I wouldn't have been able to stay home either when I was a single mother if the schools closed. But the schools close during snow storms. What did you do then? This year in the tristate area has been light on snow days. At least one day in a lifetime in America can be dedicated to a women's strike. And if you can't strike, be grateful to those who can. Just maybe it might bring change. It did in Iceland in the 1970s and just recently in Poland where politicians thought they could deny women any right whatsoever to abortion under any circumstances.
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International Women's Day has been observed on May 8 for over a century. Originally called International Working Women's Day, it has its origins in the labor movement, with an overlap with broader socialist causes. It cannot be "scheduled" to meet your convenience.
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As you point out, if women teachers took the day off, other women like your mother would have suffered. But that is the point. Women are needed and not as appreciated as they should be.
On the one hand, Ms. Rogers describes "A Day Without a Woman" as "another high-profile mass action — a test of whether anti-Trump fervor can be turned into a sustained political movement."
"Anti-Trump" appears prominently in the first paragraph.
On the other hand, if you follow the "A Day Without a Woman" link to their website, and search for "Trump" in either that page or in the FAQ page, you won't find ONE mention of Trump.
So is this an anti-Trump "mass action", or not ?
Taking the action's website on its word, the answer is apparently "No", and therefore I find myself wishing there was a mass action that invited men to participate in a protest, and strike, at an equal level as women. Clearly the point of such an alternate protest would NOT be to (in the words of the "A Day Without A Woman" site) "act together for equity, justice and the human rights of women and all gender-oppressed people". It would be to be an anti-Trump protest, and a show of force.
I do not want to negate, stop or silence the "A Day Without A Woman" protest IN THE LEAST. That action and protest is IMPORTANT IN ITS OWN RIGHT.
This NY Times article is blurring the purpose by calling it "anti-Trump".
After fighting this noble and important battle, where women - primarily - need to show their force, can we fight an anti-Trump battle that includes men among the troops, as equals ?
"Anti-Trump" appears prominently in the first paragraph.
On the other hand, if you follow the "A Day Without a Woman" link to their website, and search for "Trump" in either that page or in the FAQ page, you won't find ONE mention of Trump.
So is this an anti-Trump "mass action", or not ?
Taking the action's website on its word, the answer is apparently "No", and therefore I find myself wishing there was a mass action that invited men to participate in a protest, and strike, at an equal level as women. Clearly the point of such an alternate protest would NOT be to (in the words of the "A Day Without A Woman" site) "act together for equity, justice and the human rights of women and all gender-oppressed people". It would be to be an anti-Trump protest, and a show of force.
I do not want to negate, stop or silence the "A Day Without A Woman" protest IN THE LEAST. That action and protest is IMPORTANT IN ITS OWN RIGHT.
This NY Times article is blurring the purpose by calling it "anti-Trump".
After fighting this noble and important battle, where women - primarily - need to show their force, can we fight an anti-Trump battle that includes men among the troops, as equals ?
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haven't noticed anything different. I noticed day without illegal immigrants way more, per my favorite burrito stop being closed.
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I marched on Washington with the women in my family. I am the first to stand up for women's causes. But if you're going to ask people to strike -- to take a day off of work that women, too, believe is valuable -- you better be asking for something specific. And asking women to wear red is hokey and just opens the door to dismissal. Women's issues, which are deadly serious, don't deserve to be on par with the effort you put forth on St. Patrick's Day. I am really disappointed in the Women's March organizers, who prefer to write Gray's Anatomy-style diatribes over real, targeted campaigns and change-making. Women deserve someone more serious leading this effort. That's why I'm not participating.
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The men here are awfully emotional and defensive. Maybe it's PMS.
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These constant marches and protests are waring me out...and I'm female.
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Amen!
My goodness. Is everyone a victim nowadays? How do we manage to live in this world. The cards are stacked against us and everything is just sooo hard. Why doesn't everyone realize how special we are. ugh Heavy Sarcasm
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The women organizing the protest are not victims, they are people who are participating in protest activity, trying to influence our government and society.
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I don't think I"m a victim when asking for equal pay after paying the same price for an education a man paid for.
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We get it, Rusty: you're not a woman, you're not a minority, you're not LGBTQ, you're not poor, you're not sick, no one is trying to keep you out or knock you down — so as far as you're concerned, everything is right with the world.
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Interesting phrase "avoid shopping unless the business is owned by minorities or women." Should I put a gold or pink star on the front of my store to denote this business is owned by a gay Jewish man? That's the way the last fascists decided where to shop or not to.
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The difference is that in Nazi Germany, gold stars were put on businesses and people so that Germans would know NOT to shop there or associate with the Jewish people who wore them. It was used by the oppressor to marginalize the oppressed. Here, it isn't being used by the male-dominated society to flag female-owned business and advise men not to shop there. It's being used by women to highlight female-owned businesses and to support them. One was used by the oppressor to oppress, the other is being used by the oppressed to overcome. See the difference?
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you missed the point...
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@Natalie-You are justifying discriminating against people based on the color of their skin/ genitalia based on systemic power models that you and a subset of individuals believe in. Despite this, however much you want to contort analogies or redefine terms to achieve your endpoint, this is plaintively sexism and racism.
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Can we read a reaction of the parents who have to stay home because of those teachers playing hooky?
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That's kind of the point - a strike of any kind is to demonstrate the importance of the group striking to the business or community. Women staying on the job to prevent inconvenience to others, would be missing the whole point. If we are valuable enough to cause problems with our absence, then maybe we should get equal pay and equal treatment. And get a clue. It isn't just teachers striking.
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@BC,
Now I got it. You have to punish not your bosses but innocent people and take away from the children their day of education. Especially if nobody knows exactly what female teachers are suffering from in comparison to male teachers... Thanks for the explanation.
Now I got it. You have to punish not your bosses but innocent people and take away from the children their day of education. Especially if nobody knows exactly what female teachers are suffering from in comparison to male teachers... Thanks for the explanation.
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Why does this feel like it was organized by Tracy Flick?
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At least it may be a quite day.
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Quite?
Right wing fear propaganda to try to "control" women has started. Politico has a magazine article today about women taking the day off can backfire by none other than a woman who was Ted Cruz' press representative and is now works for the infamous Jim DeMint of the Koch brothers' Heritage Foundation.
Ignore them, Ladies. WE must support the brave women who are willing to put it on the line to bring social and economic justice back to America.
Right NOW is OUR time to step up and change the political landscape in America and bring balance to the fear-hate-anger-war- LIES, LIES, LIES conversation and actions that threaten OUR lives and those of our children, grandchildren and all future generations. Stay strong and courageous and STAND YOUR GROUND. Do not allow your accomplishments and ideas be trivialized any longer.
Together Women Can And Will Change The World to a Better Place for ALL Human Beings.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/how-a-day-without-a-woman...
Ignore them, Ladies. WE must support the brave women who are willing to put it on the line to bring social and economic justice back to America.
Right NOW is OUR time to step up and change the political landscape in America and bring balance to the fear-hate-anger-war- LIES, LIES, LIES conversation and actions that threaten OUR lives and those of our children, grandchildren and all future generations. Stay strong and courageous and STAND YOUR GROUND. Do not allow your accomplishments and ideas be trivialized any longer.
Together Women Can And Will Change The World to a Better Place for ALL Human Beings.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/how-a-day-without-a-woman...
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Allow me to correct this, "The Women’s March on Washington, which took place the day after President Trump’s inauguration and drew hundreds of thousands of demonstrators..."
The Women's March on Washington, officially according to the Women's March and Sister Marches website drew, 4,956,452 (Four Million, nine-hundred-fifty-six-thousand, four hundred and fifty-two) registered women and men across America and around the world. Hundreds of thousands more did not register and/or were not counted and hundreds of millions supported the marches and did not participate.
THAT is the news. Stop trying to discount it, NYT.
The Women's March on Washington, officially according to the Women's March and Sister Marches website drew, 4,956,452 (Four Million, nine-hundred-fifty-six-thousand, four hundred and fifty-two) registered women and men across America and around the world. Hundreds of thousands more did not register and/or were not counted and hundreds of millions supported the marches and did not participate.
THAT is the news. Stop trying to discount it, NYT.
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The criticism directed at this event speaks volumes in itself.
Women who disproportionately fill roles in essential human services such as teaching, health care, child care etc. are being told that they would be irresponsible to take the day off. Women who work in low-wage jobs are unable to take the day off because of fear of economic retribution.
All of this just shows that our society really needs this kind of wake-up call.
Women who disproportionately fill roles in essential human services such as teaching, health care, child care etc. are being told that they would be irresponsible to take the day off. Women who work in low-wage jobs are unable to take the day off because of fear of economic retribution.
All of this just shows that our society really needs this kind of wake-up call.
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I take it Ms. Rogers, the author of the article, and other female Times reporters did not take the day off because the Times didn't allow it? Are they swathed in red? Under the circumstances, are women allowed to read The Times, with its current almost exclusively male masthead? This protest, like so many feminist protests, seems almost designed to encourage participation by the privileged and exclude participation by those who cannot afford to take a day off work.
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Check out the history of strikes -- it means that you picket and protest. If it isn't done on a workday then there wouldn't be much point, would there.
I think it's pretty arrogant of you to assume that only privileged women care enough about their rights to strike.
I think it's pretty arrogant of you to assume that only privileged women care enough about their rights to strike.
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"This protest, like so many feminist protests"
There are shorter, simpler ways of declaring you don't support equal rights for women.
There are shorter, simpler ways of declaring you don't support equal rights for women.
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Kudos to the women of color and "marginalized" women who are taking the lead in these feminist protests! Sexism is institutional, systematic, and intersects with a multitude of obstacles that force structural violence on women.
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Yet never a demand for equal responsibilities.
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The day has been rendered irrelevant or worse for me by the platform equating the day with Palestinian rights.
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"The day has been rendered irrelevant or worse for me"
Stop the world.
Stop the world.
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I am proud to wear red today and send my husband and daughter out in red as well. Awareness and solidarity!!
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I'm sure "day without a man" is coming up too #equality
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That's what General Strikes are for.
"I'm sure "day without a man" is coming up too #equality"
To women who have been abandoned, often with children to support, that's called "every day".
To women who have been abandoned, often with children to support, that's called "every day".
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If women really want to make a difference, here's how: Stop and think before you get into unhealthy relationships. Take responsibility for yourselves. Get as much education as you can. Break the unhealthy cycles of impoverished single motherhood, domestic abuse, and substance abuse. Work towards economic independence. It will take time and some sacrifice on your part, but it works.
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Education helps. Until we invest and ensure that all children get a good education in this country, the cycle of poverty and instability will continue. It's hard to 'stop and think' when you are uninformed and uneducated.
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Excellent ideas, Symasapi, but much too simplistic to overcome systemic discrimination against over one-half the world's population - WOMEN.
Any woman who has pushed a fetus out of her body knows that baby boys and girls come out exactly the same way. The answer is to empower both sexes to value themselves and honor the other.
Any woman who has pushed a fetus out of her body knows that baby boys and girls come out exactly the same way. The answer is to empower both sexes to value themselves and honor the other.
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Whoa, wait a minute. You are implying that women *choose* to get into unhealthy relationships, to not pursue an education, to be single moms, or worse: that some choose the cycle of domestic and/or substance abuse. Are you serious? This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we strike.
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And a new definition of "violence"- isn't it great?
“broadening the definition of violence against women,” says Sarah Leonard, spokesperson for the strike. In addition to protesting domestic, sexual and physical violence against women, Tithi Bhattacharya, a member of the strike’s organizing committee, says the strike on Wednesday focuses on rejecting the “systemic violence of an economic system that is rapidly leaving women behind.”
And the great English word "invisibilize" - "as women we know that both society and policy makers invisibilize the work that women do.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/opinion/why-women-are-on-strike.html
And the anti-Israel stance of women?
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/does-feminism-have-room-fo...
“broadening the definition of violence against women,” says Sarah Leonard, spokesperson for the strike. In addition to protesting domestic, sexual and physical violence against women, Tithi Bhattacharya, a member of the strike’s organizing committee, says the strike on Wednesday focuses on rejecting the “systemic violence of an economic system that is rapidly leaving women behind.”
And the great English word "invisibilize" - "as women we know that both society and policy makers invisibilize the work that women do.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/opinion/why-women-are-on-strike.html
And the anti-Israel stance of women?
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/does-feminism-have-room-fo...
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A day of unfocused activism in which the media will focus on whatever they fancy.
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Ladies - Wear Red to show solidarity with women around the world. Do not shop except at Women Owned businesses. Send a few dollars to a female candidate for elected office. Tell your husband to cook dinner and/or clean.
Few of the women most effected by the current administration, headed by Groper In Chief and The Con Don, can afford to take the day off but women - and the men who love them - must make OUR strength shown.
NOW is the time!
The Con Don apparently sent out one of his little tweets today saying that he "honors" women. This proves, once again, he's a big, fat liar.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/10/09/trumps-...
Few of the women most effected by the current administration, headed by Groper In Chief and The Con Don, can afford to take the day off but women - and the men who love them - must make OUR strength shown.
NOW is the time!
The Con Don apparently sent out one of his little tweets today saying that he "honors" women. This proves, once again, he's a big, fat liar.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/10/09/trumps-...
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Let me get this straight, you would support people shopping at businesses owned by women who supported Trump?
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What is your point, Alex?
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At least it would demonstrate a solidarity that has the courage to resist a Cult of Personality.
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I am glad to see that people are upset that women are taking the day off today. Questions such as "who will pay for child care that day" is exactly the point of the movement. Where would we be as a society if women did not fill many of the important roles necessary for our country to function? Those who are feeling anger should realize, and reflect, on how important these people are to their daily lives functioning well, and will hopefully motivate them to support women to receive equal pay and opportunities in their work and their lives.
Movements like these are not meant to be easy, they are meant to put people into hard positions so that they have to face the reality that there is a large majority of people in our country, and around the world, who are not being treated fairly. I applaud anyone who supports this movement, and for those who don't agree or feel inconvenienced, I can only hope that this will cause you to reflect on the importance of the women in your lives and encourage you to support them.
Movements like these are not meant to be easy, they are meant to put people into hard positions so that they have to face the reality that there is a large majority of people in our country, and around the world, who are not being treated fairly. I applaud anyone who supports this movement, and for those who don't agree or feel inconvenienced, I can only hope that this will cause you to reflect on the importance of the women in your lives and encourage you to support them.
How could you leave out reasons to protest:
Trump has reinstated global gag rule which defunds any group giving women information about abortion or performing abortions. The Guttmacher Institute has estimated 20,000 women will die. Abortion does not go away. Illegal abortion becomes deadly.
Trump,and republicans want to defund Planned Parenthood which delivers health care to men and women under Medicaid just like any other health care provider.
Republicans want to remove coverage under ACA for abortion. No tax credits if a woman carries coverage, thereby making the procedure prohibitively expensive.
Forced birth = forced abortion. Neither respects rights of women to make decisions about their own bodies.
Trump has reinstated global gag rule which defunds any group giving women information about abortion or performing abortions. The Guttmacher Institute has estimated 20,000 women will die. Abortion does not go away. Illegal abortion becomes deadly.
Trump,and republicans want to defund Planned Parenthood which delivers health care to men and women under Medicaid just like any other health care provider.
Republicans want to remove coverage under ACA for abortion. No tax credits if a woman carries coverage, thereby making the procedure prohibitively expensive.
Forced birth = forced abortion. Neither respects rights of women to make decisions about their own bodies.