{"id":22452,"date":"2018-10-31T11:19:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T18:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=22452"},"modified":"2018-10-31T11:19:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T18:19:58","slug":"a-proper-response-to-those-calling-the-womens-march-a-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=22452","title":{"rendered":"A proper response to those calling the Women\u2019s March a mob"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI\u2019m proud of the number of women that showed up in defense of Dr. Ford. I\u2019m proud to have had some part of their protest on the steps of the Supreme Court. I\u2019m proud that the Women\u2019s March is still fighting for survivors. However, I would like to offer my opinion on what they should have responded when Trump called them \u201cthe mob.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

I understand the attempt to tamper the speeches of men who would vilify them for committing acts of disobedience, for risking arrest and putting their bodies on the line. But, to the eyes of the oppositional parties and hard-right\/alt-rights that have pushed their contempt of these women as mobs, as violent and dangerous, there is no way of appealing to their common sense.<\/p>\n

There is no point in responding in long soliloquys about the beauty of the movement or the struggles that each woman faces because of the dangers of the Trump administration. The email sent to me ends touchingly, \u201cThis is who we are, who you are, Nichole: Moms, grandmothers, aunts, daughters, sisters. We\u2019re regular women, survivors and allies from cities and suburbs, and rural areas\u2014who believe in our country, and are determined to make it better\u201d. It\u2019s supposed to better ground the public\u2019s understanding about who these angry women are and what they\u2019re trying to accomplish. They\u2019re simply trying to protect themselves and empower the women around them. That won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my proper response to the Trump administration and all the Republicans who shake their heads and declaim that the Women\u2019s March is violent, unruly, that women are hysterical, and that we should continue towards civility when protesting the dismantlement of our rights: f*ck you.<\/p>\n

Let me say that once again, clearly. F*ck you.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have to respond to an egotistical Twitter happy rapist and rape apologist. We don\u2019t have to respond to the smiling Southern gentlemen shtick while he demands cuts to entitlements<\/a> that we\u2019ve paid into for years. We shouldn\u2019t respond to the calls about our violent tactics while children have been separated<\/a> from their parents, put into cages, abused and forcibly injected with psychotropic drugs<\/a>. We should not and cannot legitimize administrations that consider erasing the transgender community<\/a> while dismissing domestic violence<\/a> as a legitimate reason for seeking asylum in the United States, and the list goes on and on. The damage heaped upon women, minorities, youth, the LGTBQ communities every group population in this country that isn\u2019t white men and privileged white women, is violence.<\/p>\n

Where\u2019s your explanation for the violent and dangerous mobs of men in government destroying the lives of so many?<\/p>\n

Civility and the call for civility is dead. Don\u2019t legitimize men who have only treated us with violence and death. Rage, be angry, and continue the fight. Don\u2019t waste energy with emailing a response to your supporters, and certainly not your opponents, explaining who you really are. Your supporters already know, they already applaud you. Your opponents couldn\u2019t care less.<\/p>\n

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(Photo Credit: ABC News<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m proud of the number of women that showed up in defense of Dr. Ford. I\u2019m proud to have had some part of their protest on the steps of the Supreme Court. I\u2019m proud that the Women\u2019s March is still fighting for survivors. However, I would like to offer my opinion on what they should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":278,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5998,900],"class_list":["post-22452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-nichole-smith","tag-womens-march","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/278"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22455,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22452\/revisions\/22455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}