The Women’s March organizers have called for a big strike today. Will it work?

[Dashinka 24,609]

The headline is interesting.  I wonder what the measure will be to determine if it works?  Also, based on gender now being a social construct, can men self identify as a woman today?  

 

Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day. The Jan. 21 Women’s March organizers have called for an international women’s strike (paired with women’s groups in more than 30 countries) in which women refrain from paid and unpaid labor.

Since the Women’s March on Washington made such a splash, an observer might assume it was in front of the current surge of left-of-center organizing. But efforts have continued more or less removed from the national spotlight. The movement has launched two main follow-up campaigns: a large-scale campaign to write and call Congress, and the formation of more than 5400 “huddles” — small groups of women and men from a given area who come together to build community and sustain action.

The strike promises the first large-scale, public signal of whether the movement has been successful in countering early critiques that it was a one-hit wonder without staying power.

In a letter printed in the Guardian, some of the Women’s March leaders proclaim that this is a strike for the “99 percent.” In the letter, movement organizers call this strike and this brand of feminism a response to “male violence,” which they define as not “only” domestic violence or sexual violence, but also violence of the “market, of debt” and “of discriminatory policies,” including lack of access to health care, anti-LGBT legislationand mass incarceration. In doing so, they continue to push toward an intersectional feminism that challenges what mainstream culture thinks of when it thinks about racismor sexism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/03/08/today-on-international-womens-day-this-is-what-will-make-the-day-without-a-woman-a-success/?utm_term=.63eaaa875adf

[smilesammich 10,727]

i know some schools over the mountain closed from teachers requesting the day off. 

 

also, you make yourself look silly talking about 'gender is a social construct' when you seriously don't know what you're talking about. but yeah, haha women can just decide to men and men can just decide to be women. 

[CaliCat 3,957]

I can't strike, but I am proudly wearing my kitty-cat hat today, in support of the movement.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

I am going to identify as a woman today, chilling at the house

[smilesammich 10,727]

1 hour ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

I am going to identify as a woman today, chilling at the house

do you live with anyone that questions from day to day if you're male or female? i mean, who are you identifying yourself to?

[Boiler 45,693]

I will be sitting down to pee in solidarity.

 

And closing the lid.

[Dashinka 24,609]

7 hours ago, smilesammich said:

i know some schools over the mountain closed from teachers requesting the day off. 

 

also, you make yourself look silly talking about 'gender is a social construct' when you seriously don't know what you're talking about. but yeah, haha women can just decide to men and men can just decide to be women. 

It's called the law of unintended consequences.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

7 hours ago, smilesammich said:

i know some schools over the mountain closed from teachers requesting the day off. 

 

also, you make yourself look silly talking about 'gender is a social construct' when you seriously don't know what you're talking about. but yeah, haha women can just decide to men and men can just decide to be women. 

Since when. Deciding to be a different sex is all the rage now 

[smilesammich 10,727]

23 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

It's called the law of unintended consequences.

 

2 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Since when. Deciding to be a different sex is all the rage now 

 

you guys seriously attempting to mansplain your nonexistent grasp of gender/sex to me?

[Boiler 45,693]

3 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

you guys seriously attempting to mansplain your nonexistent grasp of gender/sex to me?

Gender is such a nefarious concept, we live in a post gender world, embrace it.

 

Back to the Football.

[smilesammich 10,727]

2 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Gender is such a nefarious concept, we live in a post gender world, embrace it.

 

Back to the Football.

that's why i said gender/sex, feel free to interchange as your understanding warrants.

 

 

[Boiler 45,693]

6 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

that's why i said gender/sex, feel free to interchange as your understanding warrants.

 

 

Interchange?

 

What are you saying?

 

May I remind you that VJ is a family friendly forum.

[smilesammich 10,727]

5 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Interchange?

 

What are you saying?

 

May I remind you that VJ is a family friendly forum.

interchange the words.

[OriZ 3,157]

14 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

The headline is interesting.  I wonder what the measure will be to determine if it works?  Also, based on gender now being a social construct, can men self identify as a woman today?  

 

Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day. The Jan. 21 Women’s March organizers have called for an international women’s strike (paired with women’s groups in more than 30 countries) in which women refrain from paid and unpaid labor.

Since the Women’s March on Washington made such a splash, an observer might assume it was in front of the current surge of left-of-center organizing. But efforts have continued more or less removed from the national spotlight. The movement has launched two main follow-up campaigns: a large-scale campaign to write and call Congress, and the formation of more than 5400 “huddles” — small groups of women and men from a given area who come together to build community and sustain action.

The strike promises the first large-scale, public signal of whether the movement has been successful in countering early critiques that it was a one-hit wonder without staying power.

In a letter printed in the Guardian, some of the Women’s March leaders proclaim that this is a strike for the “99 percent.” In the letter, movement organizers call this strike and this brand of feminism a response to “male violence,” which they define as not “only” domestic violence or sexual violence, but also violence of the “market, of debt” and “of discriminatory policies,” including lack of access to health care, anti-LGBT legislationand mass incarceration. In doing so, they continue to push toward an intersectional feminism that challenges what mainstream culture thinks of when it thinks about racismor sexism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/03/08/today-on-international-womens-day-this-is-what-will-make-the-day-without-a-woman-a-success/?utm_term=.63eaaa875adf

My wife heard it this morning on the news and said "yay, I can stay home!", so I told her I'm staying home too  then and she said NEVERMIND...

[The Nature Boy 7,659]