Women's March -- January 22, 2017

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

 

Some observations, comments, questions regarding the women's march in Washington, DC, the day after President Obama left office.

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

Comments:

• 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):

Ball and Chain, Janis Joplin
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

Confused:

• 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

Woody Allen: 95% of life is showing up

• 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?