Why Hundreds of Thousands Are Joining the Women's March Saturday

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A few weeks before the Women's March on Washington, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez, two of the four national co-chairs of this weekend's planned demonstration, appeared on CNN Newsroom. "There are signs that [Donald Trump] is listening, right? He has nominated four women out of 23 positions to serve in his administration," said host Carol Costello. "Ivanka Trump supposedly is going to have this big role in the Trump administration, as far as promoting women's issues like child care. So does that give you hope that he is listening?"

This premise – that women, who represent 51 percent of the population, should be grateful for 17 percent representation in Trump's cabinet – gets to the heart of why hundreds of thousands of women and men are poised to descend on Washington, D.C., as well as cities around the world, Saturday in protest.

Those who plan to march are not grateful; they are not satisfied. They're rightfully insulted by the election of an unrepentant misogynist who's filling his administration with more of the same – and, to Costello's point, they're insulted that in August, when Trump was asked which women he'd invite to help him run the country, the single name he could come up with was his daughter's. Leaving aside the anti-nepotism laws Ivanka would violate by joining her father's administration (which her husband may already be in violation of), many women also recognize that she's no hero to them, as evidenced by her woefully inadequate child care plan, which does particularly little to address the needs of low-income mothers.

What the organizers of the Women's March will tell you, though, is that the upcoming action is not about Trump, but rather about addressing the systemic inequities he highlights with every decision he makes.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/why-hundreds-of-thousands-are-joining-the-womens-march-w461332?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=011717_12

[bettyellen]

1. Kick- shame on anyone not supporting this due to partisan loyalties!

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Trump tweeted: People are pouring into Washington in record numbers.

He thinks they are all his fans!

[Generator]

3. Give birth or die

That's the message of all these Republicons. Fetus life is more important than a living woman-if you can't control your own body you have control over nothing. That's what they want. They also want to take away birth control. They also want to tell you who and when to have sex but hey-it's not an authoritarian state or anything. So as long as they tell women to give birth or die, we are nothing but breeding machines. (note to all Canada has no restrictions on abortion-not that poor women can make it there but it was first thing I looked up after he was elected-not for me but for my daughters)

[lindysalsagal]

4. My NYC sign: "Women's Issues are American Issues." "Women are not a special interest group."