# Women's March On Washington -- are you going? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 11, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885 "2017-01-11T18:39:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/61 "2017-01-20T23:19:21Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Oh! It is a Thing! > [https://www.pussyhatproject.com/](https://www.pussyhatproject.com/) So that’s what that was. A friend emailed that she finished her first knitting project, and showed the picture and it was one of those hats. I didn’t realize the connection. Montpelier is the closest one to me and it is sponsored by Planned Parenthood so being pro-life I wouldn’t go. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/62 "2017-01-20T23:23:06Z")
Maybe you could go in support of all the women’s (and men’s) healthcare PP provides, that will be stripped from low income women under this presidency. All the breast exams, STD tests, birth control, general well visits that are going to be lost. That’s a lot of life there that needs support too… ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/63 "2017-01-21T00:44:36Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Maybe you could go in support of all the women’s (and men’s) healthcare PP provides, that will be stripped from low income women under this presidency. All the breast exams, STD tests, birth control, general well visits that are going to be lost. That’s a lot of life there that needs support too… This. The large majority of what PP provides has nothing to do with abortions except in some cases by preventing the cause. I’m going because I support just about everything that trump wants to take away, not just medical care for everyone who isn’t rich, but also gay rights, rape victims’ rights, immigrants’ rights, the rights of people of color, the first amendment which as you might recall includes the right to free speech, the right to peaceful assembly, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom to petition the government. trump has already clearly signaled his intent to curtail at least three of these first amendment rights, and is being eagerly supported by Republican congressmen. Isn’t that reason enough? If not, there are plenty more. If you want trump to become the fascist dictator of his wet dreams, stay divided over single issues. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/64 "2017-01-21T02:44:49Z")
I’m going to the sister march in Nashville, complete with pussy hat! My mother came of age in Nazi Germany, and I have always been secretly ashamed that she was not part of the Resistance. I don’t want my daughter and granddaughters to say that about me. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/65 "2017-01-21T03:54:15Z")
Look, the guy has 2 daughters who have his ear. He wont be doing anything bad to women. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/66 "2017-01-21T04:00:23Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Look, the guy has 2 daughters who have his ear. He wont be doing anything bad to women. You’re funny. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/67 "2017-01-21T04:10:33Z")
So what will you do if you see some protesters rioting? No seriously. Lets say your in a march for a cause you truly believe in, you see someone carrying a brick and they are about to throw it thru a window or even worse, throw something deadly at police? ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/68 "2017-01-21T04:13:47Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > So what will you do if you see some protesters rioting? > > No seriously. Lets say your in a march for a cause you truly believe in, you see someone carrying a brick and they are about to throw it thru a window or even worse, throw something deadly at police? We’re instructed to find a proctor or march monitor and inform them. Do not engage. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/69 "2017-01-21T04:28:24Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > So what will you do if you see some protesters rioting? > > No seriously. Lets say your in a march for a cause you truly believe in, you see someone carrying a brick and they are about to throw it thru a window or even worse, throw something deadly at police? Grab my phone and video the agent provocateur, of course. I RSVP’d to a Sister March here in NJ, finishing up my pussy hat. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/70 "2017-01-21T11:31:59Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Look, the guy has 2 daughters who have his ear. He wont be doing anything bad to women. He openly brags about sexually assaulting women. Have you really not been paying attention? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/71 "2017-01-21T14:59:34Z")
I may go to the New York City march. Maybe. I’m going to head down to the area and scope it out. I was very excited about it at first, then as I found out more my enthusiasm faltered. They are assembling in a plaza with a capacity of eight thousand. So far about eighty thousand have responded. So they have developed this staggered schedule for assembling marchers and moving them out. Most everyone is specifically disinvited to the rally. Which sounds to me like they are saying “we have enough people already if you really want to come you can come over when we have finished and march the route we took earlier”. But to me it defeats the purpose of assembling a lot of people together at the same time. And there is no assembly point at the end of the march which is weird. So I guess, if I go, I’ll show up at the rally point at my time two hours after the rally, walk along the march route to Trump Tower and then…keep walking another five blocks to the subway station and go home? I wish they had an event here that was better planned. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/72 "2017-01-21T15:35:33Z")
I’m on the Brown line in Chicago, and they’re so overloaded some have shorted out. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/73 "2017-01-21T15:40:52Z")
NYT: biggest inaugural protest in history of the United States. Estimating 200 thousand in DC. There are 12 marches in the SF Bay/Monterey Bay areas alone; there have been 5 thousand rsvps to the march in my small city. It’s big, folks. ---
**Author:** ![arfurvirus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@arfurvirus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arfurvirus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/74 "2017-01-21T15:47:51Z")
Thousands flew out there. What a waste of money. Just think if they had donated all of that money to the homeless, or education or even planned parenthood. This is NOT about helping America, it’s all about me me me me me me. One of those people actually said, “This is our opportunity”. No, your opportunity was when it was time to vote. Now you’re just crying over spilt milk. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/75 "2017-01-21T15:55:58Z")
Wow, this movement really has you rattled. You should be, Trump’s woken a sleeping giant. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/76 "2017-01-21T16:09:24Z")
> [@arfurvirus](#): > > Thousands flew out there. > > What a waste of money. > Just think if they had donated all of that money to the homeless, or education or even planned parenthood. > > This is NOT about helping America, it’s all about me me me me me me. > > One of those people actually said, “This is our opportunity”. > > No, your opportunity was when it was time to vote. > > Now you’re just crying over spilt milk. You really imagine that the millions all over the entire world marching today are merely crying over spilt milk? You really don’t grasp it, do you? ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/77 "2017-01-21T16:10:51Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > NYT: biggest inaugural protest in history of the United States. Estimating 200 thousand in DC. There are 12 marches in the SF Bay/Monterey Bay areas alone; there have been 5 thousand rsvps to the march in my small city. It’s big, folks. Now they are estimating more like 400 thousand. ---
**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 21, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/78 "2017-01-21T16:46:43Z")
My wife and MIL went. I’m home minding the sick cats. I hate crowds, but I’d not have let my wife go down there alone. Seems perfectly peaceful so far from the reports I’ve received. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/79 "2017-01-21T17:43:03Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > So that’s what that was. A friend emailed that she finished her first knitting project, and showed the picture and it was one of those hats. I didn’t realize the connection. > > Montpelier is the closest one to me and it is sponsored by Planned Parenthood so being pro-life I wouldn’t go. They don’t want you anyway [http://www.usnews.com/opinion/op-ed/articles/2017-01-19/the-womens-march-on-washington-errs-in-excluding-pro-life-feminists](http://www.usnews.com/opinion/op-ed/articles/2017-01-19/the-womens-march-on-washington-errs-in-excluding-pro-life-feminists) ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885/80 "2017-01-21T17:45:30Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > They don’t want you anyway > > [http://www.usnews.com/opinion/op-ed/articles/2017-01-19/the-womens-march-on-washington-errs-in-excluding-pro-life-feminists](http://www.usnews.com/opinion/op-ed/articles/2017-01-19/the-womens-march-on-washington-errs-in-excluding-pro-life-feminists) That is not true of all the marches. Marches take on different tones as they have different organizers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/womens-march-on-washington-are-you-going/776885.md?page=5)