The Pink Pussy Hat movement
by digby
This by Katha Pollit is the one to read on this issue: The Women’s March Succeeded Because It Spoke to Women’s Outrage. The success of the marches should put the critique of “identity politics” as divisive dead end to rest, once and for all.
The conclusion gets to the heart of it:
My own belief is that calling it a women’s march attracted far more people than it repelled, because it appealed to a deep sense of outrage and injury felt by women that went deeper than Trump’s policy positions. That the least qualified man, a self-confessed harasser and molester to boot, beat the most qualified woman, despite getting fewer votes, told women that no matter how hard they tried and how excellent they were, they were always going to be second-class citizens, always going to be passed over in favor of men, and that disrespecting, insulting, and even assaulting them was perfectly okay in 21st-century America. The shock of that recognition awakened something profound in women, including many who had not been active in politics before. There were a lot of newbies at the march. As one sign put it, “Hell Hath No Fury Like Millions of Women Scorned.”
That was my sense at the LA march — this realization that no matter how insane and incompetent the man, he’s always got an advantage over the most qualified woman. I saw that in my previous life over and over again. It’s infuriating. And this time an awful lot of women have had it with that.
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