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by Forty Two » Fri Jan 12, 2018 4:15 pm
Tyrannical wrote:LOL, anti-Trump pussy hats are now racist and transphobic.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/2018/0 ... 013630001/
But this time when marchers take to the streets in cities from Lansing to Las Vegas, there could be fewer pink pussyhats in the crowds.
The reason: The sentiment that the pink pussyhat excludes and is offensive to transgender women and gender nonbinary people who don't have typical female genitalia and to women of color because their genitals are more likely to be brown than pink.
You can't make this stuff up
Huh, and here I thought the "pussy" in pusshat meant pussycat, because of the little cat-ear-like points on the hats, and I thought the pink was a take-off of the pink ribbon for women's health and breast cancer awareness, so as to symbolize women via pink and feline metaphors. It didn't occur to me that they were referring to vaginas explicitly. And, women of color are likely to have brown vaginas? Vulvas maybe, but aren't all vaginas pink, no matter the race? And vulvas -- the outside -- is generally not pink on anybody, is it? Usually women's skin there is about the same color as the rest of their body, but the vagina is more pink. Also, don't they make the knit pussyhat caps in different colors anyway? Is it "offensive" that most people prefer the pink variety?
Oh, well, somebody is offended, so they better stop. It's not enough to be free to wear whatever color hat you want, if somebody is offended by the color of hat you wear then you better modify your behavior and stop wearing it.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar