Updates
January 26, 2017:
Scott Adams and I are on same page. This note from Scott Adams:
I’m also having a hard time figuring out what the pink-hat people are protesting about that they don’t already have. I understand that abortion is in the mix. But the hats seem to have some sort of generic anti-Trump message that to my mind is conflated with an anti-alpha-male vibe. It’s a confusing message and not completely positive.Compare with mine below.
Original Post
Observations:
- this was the culmination celebrating eight years of the Obama legacy: remember, President Trump had been in office less than 24 hours when they marched
- the marchers reflected on the Obama legacy
- the US is more divisive than ever
- the African-American community and other minorities were left further behind than when he took office
- women's issues were never addressed by the Obama administration, despite eight years in office, and resounding majorities in two elections with a strong mandate from his female base
- the "program" in Washington, DC, was incredibly lame
- the speeches were banal, vulgar
- entertainment? some lame musical groups playing noise?
- where was the likes of Janis Joplin in the sixties? This is what we should have heard if the organizers were so angry, with 6 million-plus views and 35,000 likes (vs 600 dislikes):
Comments, continued.
After watching the women's march, I realized I was "in sync" with their demands. I should have been there arm-in-arm, marching with them:
- Franchise: women deserve the right to vote
- Equal pay: sergeants in the US Army deserve the same pay regardless of whether they are male or female
- Medical Care: double-amputees returning from Afghanistan deserve the same level of medical care regardless of sex
- Free speech: men and women should be equally free to use language in front of pre-teens generally reserved for movies rated R and X
- Free speech: no one should be prosecuted for advocating blowing up the White House, whether male or female
- Access to abortion: regardless of ethnicity, women deserve same access to abortion; white women are disproportionately under-represented in the US abortion clinics compared to African-Americans
- #BlackLivesMatter: see "access to abortion." Apparently not all black lives matter
- Breaking "glass ceilings": it's time for a woman president simply because she's a female (memo to self: look up definition of tautology)
- Free market capitalism: same reimbursement for aborted fetal parts, regardless of ethnicity
- I have no idea where the marchers stood on "pussy-groping" but they all wanted folks to wear pussy-stocking-caps-with-pointed ears
- I have no idea where the marchers stand on civility: I heard calls for civility in the White House; their calls used some of the most uncivil language ever heard on the Mall by women speakers; I don't recall Bella using these words
- I have no idea where the marchers stand on violence: they call for peace but first they must think about "blowing up the White House" -- their words, not mine
- where were these women during the campaign?
- why did Hillary not visit Wisconsin, even once during the campaign? (I provided the answer, by the way, on the blog some time ago)
- where was Meryl Streep? Nancy Pelosi? Michelle Obama? Maxine Waters?
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