# So now "pink pussy hats" are offensive?? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 19, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-pink-pussy-hats-are-offensive/806986 "2018-01-19T19:06:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-pink-pussy-hats-are-offensive/806986/41 "2018-01-20T17:54:23Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > This is basically true, but what does that have to do with chastising the woman for drawing that line at a place where you wouldn’t? I wasn’t personally “chastising” her, just pointing out the futility of her philosophy. It reminds me of a story “supposed to be true” I read once about a naturalist and a Buddhist a century or so back. The naturalist showed the Buddhist microbes in a drop of water under a microscope. The Buddhist begged and begged and begged the naturalist to give him the microscope. Finally the naturalist gave un–at which point the Buddhist smashed the microscope to pieces. The Buddhist had thought he was being a good Buddhist, eating no meat, wearing no leather, even avoiding swatting flies or stepping on ants. But then he discovered that he was unavoidably killing countless tiny animals every moment if his life, and it shook his worldview to the core. He felt the need to destroy the microscope to spare his fellow monks this revelation. Trying to avoid doing anything at all that offends anyone at all is as futile as smashing the microscope when it reveals a fact that you find disturbing. Giving up on anything and everything that potentially might offend a microscopic minority doesn’t make you “woke”, it makes you a timid, obsequious butt-monkey. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-pink-pussy-hats-are-offensive/806986/42 "2018-01-20T18:46:02Z")
Someone forgot to tell all the liberals what the liberals really think because there’s over a quarter million people in downtown Chicago right now and a whole heck of a lot of them are wearing pink hats. My wife’s hat is black but I think that was an aesthetic choice (she’s not black) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-pink-pussy-hats-are-offensive/806986/43 "2018-01-21T00:20:20Z")
Pussy hats everywhere I look. A variety of colors, and some with Hello Kitty. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-pink-pussy-hats-are-offensive/806986/44 "2018-01-25T15:14:03Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > That’s not helpful, but thanks for trying. The OP’s point was that the left is amazing. He implied that this was a broadly held view, not that it was the opinion of one nutball. FWIW, I agree that the hats are kind of stupid. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-pink-pussy-hats-are-offensive/806986/45 "2018-01-25T16:13:08Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Dude, you just posted a story from Free Republic? No, he did not: > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [freep.com](http://freep.com) is the Detroit Free Press, not the Free Republic. The Free Republic website is, shockingly, www. [freerepublic.com/](http://freerepublic.com/) ETA: broke link because nobody should be going there. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-pink-pussy-hats-are-offensive/806986/46 "2018-01-26T00:30:36Z")
> [@susan](#): > > Pussy hats everywhere I look. A variety of colors, and some with Hello Kitty. If there was one with Hello Kitty, I might wear one. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-pink-pussy-hats-are-offensive/806986/47 "2018-01-26T00:51:06Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > That’s not helpful, but thanks for trying. The OP’s point was that the left is amazing. For certain definitions of “amazing”. > [@doorhinge](#): > > The 2nd post in this thread could be described as an attempted hijack if it wasn’t in the IMHO forum. Is the pink pussyhat offensive, or not? Some people, apparently, think it is. Some people think it’s symbol of solidarity. Some people think, myself included, that it’s a really ugly hat with a really stupid name. The second post in this thread could be described as a turnip, were somebody inclined to do so. It’s a free country. And I fully agree that it’s a really ugly hat with a stupid name. However I have no esthetic sensibilities whatsoever so I wouldn’t recommend anybody stop wearing the hat on my say-so. (I recommend they stop calling them pussy hats on my say-so, though. That’s _objectively_ stupid.) > [@doorhinge](#): > > Having said that, I question why the subject of actually wearing ugly, stupid, pink pussyhats shouldn’t be discussed? Sure it can be discussed! Right alongside the subject of how stupid, ugly, and pink it is to pretend that this one liberal’s decisions impart “amazingness” to the entire left. So discussing the wearing of the hats. What would you wear with them? A turtleneck? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-pink-pussy-hats-are-offensive/806986.md?page=2)