Why would it be necessary to “win people over” to help in the fight that undeniably affects everyone? If there’s a fire in the kitchen do I have to win you over to help throw some water? Therein lies the problem. Perhaps if you look the other way it doesn’t affect you.

I think his mistake was to go after the marchers. You attack leaders, not the people.

Yes. I completely understand the sentiment, but effectiveness of approach is more important. Effectiveness is what changes minds. Not ridicule.

Good question. Seriously.

I largely agree. I just hope you don’t see the guy in the photo as an enemy. I think he made mistake, but he is potentially an ally.

I can’t speak for the person who made the sign. I can’t even find the damn picture right now, but seeing black woman holding it up while, in the background, three white women are taking selfies was pretty powerful. Factual? Not completely, because as someone else pointed out that’s only the number of women VOTERS…

I wouldn’t have made that sign, but I get his feeling. Been marching since Obama’s first term.

So we can expect you at the next Farmworkers march right? Or the next immigrations march? Or at Standing Rock (which IIRC, you did not attend?).

Yeah, that’ll make the first-time marchers feel great. Can we stop picking at people who gave enough of a shit to come out and march in January, and then tell them it isn’t good enough? I think all women need to be respectful of the new-to-protest women who are now galvanized. Coming together on commonalities and…

“I also know several people who felt excluded ... and I think it’s because it was about so many things at once.”

Agreed, it seems wrong to be so cynical and mistrusting of people who are new to activism. They are in many ways “the middle” that activists spend so much time trying to convince and get involved. Well, they did, now let’s work to make them follow up.

Can’t this be a first step? Let’s encourage people to join and listen.

Aimée, it’s “Brookline” and I used to work at a dance studio in that town back when I was in college so I’m not surprised. It’s filled with elitist parents whose children were precious little snowflakes (at least where I worked at), who thought that Boston was a lawless wasteland they were afraid to trek to…

What--like a white Gap t-shirt? How Sharon Stone!

“poont”

There needs to be an Orange poop emoji. STAT.

Every goddamn Democrat and every goddamn Democratic “spokesperson” has to say “he lost the popular vote” everytime somebody opens up about Trump’s victory to remind people of how flukish his victory was. If anything, it’ll just piss him off more which is half the fun of it.

Every year I can remember, back to Lyndon Johnson, on April 15 (sometimes a few days before), the president and first lady’s tax return was discussed on the nightly news and the daily paper. Often there was some interesting spike in their income (first ladies seem to write books that sell well while they’re in the…

I’m ready to march on Saturday, April 15th to protest his refusal to disclose his taxes.

Hilariously, Wikileaks has declared an interest in having a whistleblower contact them so that they can leak it. Now. Yes, really. After everything. Particularly after Assange’s pledge to leave the embassy’s protection fell apart after he did that embarrassing backpedal. All of it. I know. I know. Yes, crabs. Barrel.…