Fair enough, but I want to point out that at no point did any of the organizers try to shame anyone for not participating. There was NEVER any sentiment like that. I think this article, and a lot of the commenters, are just pointing out that there appears to be a very fundamental misunderstanding of the history of…

An organized labor strike looks REEEEEEALLLY different from the disorganization that was this strike. I wasn’t even aware you were supposed to wear a color until I got a text the morning of telling me to. I belong to several local progressive women’s groups.

A labor strike is very organized and an overwhelmingly high…

I’ve thought about this since the women’s march when my brother in law commented on a post with something along the lines of “what the fuck are these idiots even protesting about.” (I don’t think he realized how many of his family members he called fucking idiots, I should have told him.)

I also, as a poor woman, want to add that poor people can (and did!) participate too. It is possible to call in sick to work and go on strike. Many people I know did this who are poor or hovering around the poverty line. I don’t like privileged people speaking for me in such a condescending way. I still have agency, I…

And general strikes have always been a tool of the working class. In France 1968 I think about 10 million workers went on strike nationwide. If I recall correctly this one lasted a couple weeks rather than one day but the concept is still very similar. This was the working class using their power against the state.

I feel like she also made the assumption that privileged women would feel the need to protest and participate at all, which I think is a big assumption. I’m sure there are plenty of privileged women who did participate because they truly care and understand that even though they are privileged in some ways, they aren’t…

It’s like I told my friends when we’d been on our feet for five hours straight at the Women’s March on Washington: “There’s a reason it’s called ‘the struggle,’ and not ‘the comfortable.’”

I think a lot of these people who criticized the strike demonstrated how US-centric their perspectives are. There’s this assumption that the people who came up with it were all middle- and upper-class women, largely white. But as as Jezebel’s great post on Latin American feminism mentioned, the idea for the…

A lot of the privilege criticism about the strike seemed to be a race to be the wokest of them all.

My brother in law... there are so many dead things hanging on the walls of their home, it’s very disturbing. For some reason the stuffed “swimming” swans bother me more than the others (deer and fish).

Bear decor aside, who the fuck is going to pay 8.75 MILLION dollars to live in Hendersonville, TN?

So you eat them a l’orange, you don’t live with their carcass as decor.

nope. leave the bears alone. i only have no problems with hunting for indigenous survival and traditional purposes. but the rest of us...we move onto their land and then shoot them to “control” them. fuck that.

Plus ducks are evil and deserve death. So it’s a different thing.

My mom’s new husband’s neice’s husband (yeah, follow that path) called me into a room in their house while I was there for Christmas Eve a couple of years ago. So I politely and cheerfully followed. Less than a foot from the room, my mom finally gets to my side and manages to whisper, “IT’S A BUCK. DON’T FREAK OUT.”

This is generic rich Southerner style.

Seriously. My grandpa’s living room was absolutely covered in taxidermied ducks but that was over 20 years ago. It was ancient even when I was a kid.

I’d do anything to experience a love so strong that it would overcome the knowledge that my beloved kills rare animals for sport.