Anti-Trump Demonstration Today

On thinking about some of the enthusiastic pro-Trump posts. It was late on Saturday night and perhaps there had been an element of 'celebrating'??
granny23 and absent thanks for 2 excellent posts which went a long way to summing up what most of us feel.

Hooray for a sensible post Absent ..... nothing to do with men wearing shorts ....head in hands
ANYONE who sees Trump as a breath of fresh has homophobic, chauvistic myoginist or racist tendencies ( or maybe all of them )

That marches and protests will not precipitate immediate change is obvious and irrelevant. However, tacit agreement is what this is about. If no one complains about something then it is assumed by more or less everybody that it's all okay. Women across the world – not just in the US and UK – have stood up to be counted. Nobody, nobody, nobody may now assume tacit agreement!

A young American friend has posted a link to CNN's coverage of the marches and she has written
"And the future seems to be filled with so much more light knowing that across the world we stood together in unity....."
Well said, Jasmine.

the absurd

This has been an interesting thread if only to give us some idea of what someone who supports Trump is like.

I didn't see the march so much as against absurd little man with the ridiculous hair but more against what he stands for. We need to make our government aware of where we stand on what he has said as there may come a point where they have to stand up for our principles.

Well said granny 23!

Women wanted to be mothers and have careers so have gone too far?

News flash - men have always been fathers and have careers

You say an equal balance needs to be found ? Oh deary me Surely you are male

I never cease to be amazed by women who take their (not quite yet) equal rights for granted without acknowledging that these rights did not appear from the ether as a gift from the gods, but had to be fought for at evey turn. Yes there were Marches, other protests, civil disobedience, women being forcefed and jailed for wearing trousers. Quote I hate all this radical stuff when really all you need to do is say no in every day life

I have been a radical feminist my whole life and sometimes thought we had taken great strides forward on equalities issues. I could not march today but 4 of my good friends were marching in Edinburgh to protest at this giant leap backwards in handing the most powerful job in the world to a 'man' (to give him that name is to insult all the decent men in the world) who does not take NO for an answer. Indeed he does not even ask the question! A father who appoints his SONS and SILs to government positions and hands his business interests into their control while describing his daughters in terms of their sexual attraction. A regular Guy? Not in my world.

I constantly hear.. He isn't doing this that and the other. i say, did you tell him, they say, well no. really? someone will continue to do something unless you tell them that isn't what you want.

stillaliveandkicking I'm not convinced that you're British and neither am I convinced that you are a woman.
You have an American turn of phrase and seem to habitually use the sort of language that some men use to intimidate.

Your husband or partner putting his hand in your lap "inappropriately" is hardly the same thing as an aggressive, powerful man with whom you have no intimate relationship behaving like that. I don't know what you mean by "speak to you in a "bloke" manner". If you mean being coarse and disrespectful, I would hazard a guess that many women on here have partners who would have no wish to, and who do not, speak to them in such a way.

As for the original post - as he has already been elected it will make no difference and it may be that he is so thick-skinned that it will have no impact on his behaviour in the future. But I still think it is important for people - women and men - to join together to express their dismay at such a man being elected, if only to, as it were, stand up and be counted.

It really annoys me just as much as anything else. women are not hopeless creatures that are still under some sort of cosh that need to rally against men. we have another woman prime minister. If anything i think you're making arses of yourselves now. women wanted to have careers and be mothers, we have that. women have gone too far and an equal balance needs to be found.

Lovely line on the Sky News who commenting on Trump's visit to the CIA. It was, so they said "a test of his ability to mend fences". Listening to him is was, as far as I could tell a test of how many lies he could tell without anyone commenting that he is a liar.

Well done Rinouchka and I also applaud all those marching today. I agree that the protest needs to continue to be made. These things are slow - and I wonder how those of us who cannot march can help as I certainly don't want to join those who say nothing in the face of this this absurd little man with the ridiculous hair.

women in our culture have choices these days. use them.

What I am saying is admiring a man in shorts is not sexual sbuse, grabbing a woman's genitals is sexual sbuse, it is against the law to sexually abuse . I am also saying you must feel very insecure in your ability to keep a man with you if you believe that if you asked your partner not to touch you inapproiately he would leave , you must either know very unpleasant men or have very low self esteem and/or self respect

Just to add that my DGS was on a London march today (in a sling on his mummy's tummy)
Little mister for the sisters!

Here we go.. I have no self respect. I also know a lot of women that marry ugly bastards for their money so, who has that respect huh.

I agree with you Annie.

How many women seriously have so little self-esteem or self-confidence that they have to tolerate men grabbing their genitals inappropriately?

Another far fetched example

Annie

Not sure what you are saying. I was just making a point that women say the same sort of things sometimes and when men do its an offensive of a criminal manner.

Apologies Anya if I asked something out of place. Are you asking Ana if Im a creature by any chance?

Saying all for it if postmen wear shorts is not sexual abuse , you mix with men I would not wish to know it seems , the men I know would respect a woman's wish not to be touched inappropriately , takes all sorts I suppose, I feel sorry you think you couldn't keep a man if you dared say these things.

Ana what is it?

Are you referring to me Anya?