International Women's Day 2017: protests, activism and a strike

let me guess, you're alone right?

 

Right now, yes. Later today, nope.

 

LMAO!!!

Thank God I didn't have a beer stuck in my face...

 

Gee, no International Mens Day? Uh, who is responsible for that? ...maybe , uh, I don't know....MEN!

Do they really need women to do that for them, TOO!!!

 

Yuppers!

 

Watch the movie - less pain.

 

Behold the Poster Child of Slacktivists:



This irresponsible SJW lives in my area and she almost lost the roof over her and her daughter's head because she couldn't take time to work:

I guess she hasn't figured out that the best and most reliable way to be "an advocate for myself" is getting a job...

 

It's funny how so many of the ones with the least amount of life experience, on the job training, financial footing, and common sense somehow know what is in the best interest of poor people, minorities, rich people, immigrants... pretty much everyone.

 

It is pretty bizarre.

One of the reasons why Boris Pasternak (the dude in my avatar) got into so much trouble over Doctor Zhivago is because he was brutally critical of such people. Here's a passage from the novel that pretty much sums up his assessment of these bumbling "revolutionaries":

And instead of going after Pasternak after he got Zhivago published outside the USSR, those brave revolutionaries went after his mistress. Not only are they ungifted, they're cowards.

 

I'm not posting anymore I'm on strike for the rest of the day

 

Well, at least you showed up for part of the day, scarlet.

And with that, I'll be spending the rest of the evening with the woman in my life. Bonsoir.

 

My wife said she should take the day off to go protest. I told her to take the week off and go, and take the kid with you

 

It was an amazing day for little Lauren and her brother Tony. Their mommy was home and Tony got to see her all day, while Lauren saw her as soon as she was done with Kindergarten. Mommy made them cookies and played games with them. It was almost as good as a Saturday!

Meanwhile, at work, due to the worker shortage, Acme Industries had to hire an additional 75 men for the day. The pay scale went up due to the supply/demand of workers and the employees standard of living went up.

All over America families got to raise their own children, pay went up, and sandwiches awaited the hard working men of America!

 

Here's more:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...en-are-striking-from-smiling-today-heres-why/

Inspired Life
Some women are striking from smiling today. Here’s why.
By Michael Alison Chandler March 8 at 5:30 AM

(iStock)
The “Day Without a Woman” strike on Wednesday may mean a day with fewer smiles.

While not every one plans to skip work, many who want to show solidarity with the growing feminist movement said they plan to strike from unpaid work that women disproportionately do, including cooking, cleaning and, some said, smiling.

More specifically, fake smiling.

Some feminists say the happy face they sport by habit — or on command — is a form of unpaid “emotional labor.” They do it to be pleasant, to be likable, or because someone told them to do it: “Why don’t you smile!”

They do it because if they don’t, there’s a name for it (Resting Bitch Face).

[Scientists have discovered what causes Resting Bitch Face]

“From the time you are small, as a woman you are encouraged to put on a friendly face,” said Ariana Ascherl, an activist in Anne Arundel, Md., who is organizing a rally in front of the Supreme Court Wednesday with the Democratic Socialists of America.

On her day of action, she also plans to abstain from doing laundry and volunteering at her daughter’s school. She is also trying to be more conscious about how and when she smiles. “I’ve been accused of having a resting nice face,” she said. “Social conditioning is a hard thing to break.”

The “Day Without a Woman” strike was organized by leaders of the the massive post-inauguration women’s marches to raise awareness about the ways in which women drive the economy. The organizers collaborated with feminist groups behind the International Women’s Strike, which was planned with a similar goal, to hold both actions on International Women’s Day Wednesday. The smile strike was listed as an action by a group backing the international strike, but many women have picked up on the idea.

[Is the ‘Day Without a Woman’ protest elitist?]

“Stop telling women to smile” has become a rallying point for feminists who say that men who cajole or prompt women to smile in public are asserting control.

'Stop Telling Women to Smile' Artist creates series on street harassment Embed Share Play Video6:05
New York-based artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh created a street art project to confront street harassment. (Video: Dean Peterson)
Debjani Roy, deputy director for Hollaback!, an anti-harassment group in New York, said it’s an early, and persistent form of street harassment. “A complete stranger making a demand of you in a public space is something you do not need to fulfill,” she said.

Women have to be careful, though, she said. What may first seem a light-hearted request can escalate if a woman does not comply.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, a Brooklyn-based painter launched a “Stop Telling Women to Smile” art series and campaign. She creates posters of unsmiling women with captions such as “I am not your property” and “Women are not outside for your entertainment.”

In general women are expected to be more agreeable and happy, sociologists say, whether at work providing service with a smile, or when keeping an emotional keel at home and in their personal lives.

Sociologist Arlie Hochschild coined the term “emotional labor” in 1983, as she described the emotional effort required in female-dominated professions, such as flight attendants, food service workers, and child care workers.

Broadly, emotional labor involves setting aside one’s own feelings in service to someone else, whether an irate customer or a melting down toddler. It involves anticipating needs, paying attention to the comfort level of others, and often doing tedious things — planning meals, remembering birthdays — that keep things going smoothly and make people happy.

It’s often unnoticed and under-valued. The term has gained new currency as low-paying service sector jobs are commanding a larger share of the economy.

When men do emotional labor, they can get praised and promoted for it, said Michelle Rodino-Colocino, an associate professor of gender and media studies at Pennsylvania Sate University and an organizer of the International Women’s Strike. For women, it’s seen as innate, and therefore not treated as a skill, she said.

That’s why feminists have taken up the mantle that emotional work should be recognized and rewarded.

The idea resonated with a lot of women who said they plan to strike.

“I’ll be striking from cooking and laundry for my partner, emotional work in my relationship, and fake smiles and fake contentment,” wrote one person who posted on a web site promoting the International Women’s Strike.

Another wrote: “I’m exhausted from navigating daily discrimination, overt and subtle. I’ll be striking from: My job, fake smiles, apologetic speech.”
But some women caution that striking from emotionally demanding tasks can send the wrong message — that this kind of work is negative.

In an interview, Hochschild said she likes the idea that the strike can draw attention to invisible work that women do, but she said that work should be celebrated, not avoided. That includes smiling. She suggested women who are told to smile in public should request a smile in return.

“I think there’s a very thin layer of civility in this particular moment in public life,” she said. “The skills that women have long honed in keeping harmony and making people feel cared for are ever more important.”

 

Who else could have written something like this but Ayaan Hirsi Ali:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ave-women-oppressed-by-sharia-law-behind.html

PAST LEFT & RIGHT
On This ‘Day Without a Woman,’ Don’t Leave Women Oppressed by Sharia Law Behind
Too many feminists in the West are reluctant to condemn cultural practices that clearly harm women.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
AYAAN HIRSI ALI

03.07.17 11:00 PM ET
Wednesday is International Women’s Day, and the organizers of the Women’s March are holding another protest. This one is called A Day Without a Woman, in solidarity with those women who have lower wages and experience greater inequalities.
The protest encourages women to take the day off work, avoid shopping other than in small women- and minority-owned stores, and wear red.
The problems being protested against Wednesday—inequality, vulnerability to discrimination, sexual harassment, and job insecurity—are all too real for many disadvantaged women, but the legal protections for them are in place here in the United States. Women who are unfairly treated at work or discriminated against can stand up, speak out, protest in the streets, and take legal action. Not so for many women in other parts of the world for whom the hashtag #daywithoutawoman is all too apt.
Around the world women are subjected to “honor violence” and lack legal protections and access to health and social services. According to Amnesty International’s recent annual report, throughout the Middle East and North Africa, women and girls are denied equal status with men in law and are subject to gender-based violence, including sexual violence and killings perpetrated in the name of “honor.”
The relationship between the sexes in Muslim majority countries is inspired and often governed by a mix of tribal, traditional practices and Islamic law. Algerian author Kamel Daoud recently referred to this system as entailing “sexual misery” for both men and women throughout the Islamic world. Daoud favors the full emancipation of Muslim women, yet many commentators criticized him as being guilty of “Islamophobia,” a term increasingly used to silence meaningful debate.

International Women’s Day should be a day to raise our voices on behalf of women with no recourse to protect their rights. Yet I doubt Wednesday’s protesters will wave placards condemning the religious and cultural framework for women’s oppression under Sharia law. As a moral and legal code, Sharia law is demeaning and degrading to women. It requires women to be placed under the care of male guardians; it views a woman’s testimony in court as worth half that of a man’s; and it permits a husband to beat his wife. It’s not only women’s legal and sexual freedoms that are curtailed under Sharia but their economic freedoms as well. Women generally inherit half of the amount that men inherit, and their male guardian must consent to their choosing education, work, or travel.
In Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, and parts of Nigeria, where Sharia law underpins the judicial system, women’s rights suffer greatly.
There is a growing trend among some feminists to make excuses for Sharia law and claim it is nothing more than a personal moral guide, and therefore consistent with American constitutional liberties. Yet the rules that such “Sharia-lite feminists” voluntarily choose to follow are also invoked to oppress women—to marry them off, to constrain their economic and human rights, and to limit their freedom of expression—who have not consented to them. The moral conflict between Sharia and universal human rights should not be dismissed as a misunderstanding, but openly discussed.
Many Western feminists struggle to embrace universal women’s rights. Decades ago, Germaine Greer argued that attempts to outlaw female genital mutilation amounted to “an attack on cultural identity.” That type of deference to traditional practices, in the name of cultural sensitivity, hurts vulnerable women. These days, relativism remains strong. Too many feminists in the West are reluctant to condemn cultural practices that clearly harm women—female genital mutilation, polygamy, child marriage, marital rape, and honor violence, particularly in non-Western societies. Women’s rights are universal, and such practices cannot be accepted.

The revival of part of the women’s movement, catalyzed by the election of Donald Trump, has deeper roots than can be seen on the surface. Like Wednesday’s protest, a large portion of Western feminism has been captured by political ideologues and postmodern apologists. Rather than protecting women’s rights, many feminists are focused on signaling opposition to “right-wing” politics.
One of the organizers of the Women’s March movement recently tweeted: “If the right wing is defending or agreeing with you, you are probably on the wrong side. Re-evaluate your positions.”
I’m all for dissent, but that “us vs. them” mentality has caused political gridlock, even on humanitarian issues where the left and right should work together. Hostility and intolerance to others’ views have made rational discussion on important issues taboo. A robust defense of universal women’s rights should welcome support from both the left and the right, overcoming domestic partisan divisions in order to help women abroad attain their full rights.

This International Women’s Day, we should protest the oppression of women who have no access to legal protections. We should support those Muslim reformers, such as Asra Nomani, Zuhdi Jasser, and Irshad Manji, who seek to reform Islam in line with full legal equality between men and women. And we should strive to overcome domestic political divisions to defend the universality of women’s rights.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and the founder of the AHA Foundation, which exists to protect women and girls from abuses of the sort described in this article.

 

Should someone organize a 'Day Without Men':

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/i...ca-look-like/article/2616731?custom_click=rss
America look like?

By SUZANNE VENKER, CONTRIBUTOR • 3/8/17 8:00 AM
SHARE
TWEET
MailPrintMore
If men went on strike, what would America look like?

We'd all be hard-pressed to find a cop when in danger. America would be defenseless in fighting our enemies. There'd be no border police to keep evil at bay. No electricians to keep the power going. No fireman, ambulance drivers or truckers to carry our food.

No drivers of fuel trucks who fill our cars with gas. There'd be no one to work the natural gas and oil fields. No one to collect our trash.

Our train systems and commuter rails wouldn't run. The airports would shut down.


When women go on strike, life goes on and no one gets hurt. If men went on strike, all our lives would be upended. And people would die.

Thank you, men of America. The women who aren't marching know your value, and we thank you.

Keep up the great work.

Suzanne Venker (@SuzanneVenker) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog. She is an author, Fox News contributor, and trustee of Leading Women for Shared Parenting.

 

I am also grateful to women who stand up for men who are abused or discriminated. Anyone who defends men as well as most Conservatives suffer endless abuse from Social Justice Warriors.

 

Effing lefties. The twatsack that wrote that story sounds like a real winner. It's no wonder people like her can't find a decent man. And it's not like it's gonna get any better either since people like that have all but completely eliminated the two parent homes by telling immature women that they're strong and can raise kids without a man, so the women who AREN'T strong believe these feminists and raise sons to be whiny inconsiderate brats instead of disciplined gentlemen.

Keep feeding them boys estrogen enriched soy and flax seed, there, single moms and they'll be crying and overemotional before you know it!

 

Bwahahahahaa!! She looks like malnutritioned and sick Maggie from the Walking Dead...

 

Yeah. Those on the left enjoy making grand pronouncements about the way the country should think. You'd think the presidential election would have offered evidence that people are no longer buying what they're peddling...

Careful. You are running the risk of being called a Nazi fascist misogynist deplorable...

I for one support the idea of an International Men's Day. Play hookie, march around, and sing kumbaya...

Excellent point.

Except that there's nothing "progressive" about it. But we'll leave the misnomer discussion for another thread...

Agreed.

Liberals complain. It's what they do.

Meanwhile, those who are a bit more thoughtful are left to clean up their messes...

 

Wasn't a man 'Woman of the Year' last year? WIN.

 

That slacktivist dingbat was lucky Child Protective Services didn't come and take her kid. I wouldn't trust her with a goldfish...

 

That is a GREAT article:

 

Given the misogynistic faff spewed up in this thread and the evidence presented above I can only conclude most of the faffers are Muslim.