Vagina Hats, lots of them

Friday January 20th saw the inauguration of Donald John Trump as the 45th President of the United States. Twenty-four hours later saw thousands of women in DC and many other locations protesting.

The question is what were they protesting? It was the kitchen sink of protests. You had the pro-choice abortion crowd, the ultra-feminists talking about their violated women parts, you had the LGBTQ advocates, the green people and climate change defenders of the environment, the proponents of open borders and the refugee influx and you even had women protesting the economy. Their messages were to put it mildly incoherent, disjointed and failed to coalesce their narrative.

The allegiance of so many factions did work in their favor because it inflated the numbers of those who showed up for the “Women’s March.” Alone, the disparate groups would not have filled a high school sports stadium.

So, what is the take away? Women are pissed, they are just not sure about what they want or how to accomplish it. They are taking on President Trump as their enemy even before he has done anything official. They paint a picture of draconian methods and tactics that will rob whatever rights they individually care about. On its face that is just ridiculous.

Granted Mr. Trump has taken a stand to defend the defenseless preborn. He has taken aim at the sacred cow of Planned Parenthood abortion business. When you show up with vagina hats and costumes and all manner of signs that reference lady parts do you really think anyone is going to take you seriously. Planned Parenthood as a women’s health provider is a joke, over 25% of their business is abortion. They are trying to defend the indefensible, namely abortion.

As far as Trump being a misogynist because of his gruff and unpretty comments I am guessing that not one of the women in the streets Saturday or the men who showed up with them ever, ever heard two guys or a bunch of guys in a locker room talking exactly the way the open mic caught him. Following their logic every male sports figure in the world would be guilty of the same offense. Does that make them automatically anti-women? Let’s wind the clock back to Monica and Bill in the Oval Office how is it that that does warrant even a modicum of their angst. They have conveniently ignored the cadre of women who fell victim to his actual advances, not just his words.

Each of the groups lead by the shrillest and mean spirited women have very little credibility because they sacrificed legitimate arguments and points and opted for rants that bordered on hysteria. Uh oh, hysteria – isn’t that a sexist word when talking about women.

The Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda’s, the “nasty woman” Ashley Judd or Madonna “blow up the White House” and their ilk are trying to hold onto a ship that has passed them by. Vagina politics no longer works. The issues are not grounded in gender. The issues are left and right, Republican and Democrat, Conservative and Progressive so let’s call it that way.

Women are already a power in this country. Hillary Clinton, the first women nominee to run for President, Kelly Ann Conway, the first women to successfully run a Presidential campaign, Carlie Farina battled 16 male nominees toe to toe in Republican presidential primary. Women are represented at the top of all industries, Virginia Rometty (IBM), Indra Nooyi (Pepsi), Mary Barra (General Motors), Safra Catz (Oracle), Shira Goodman (Staples) and Maryilyn Hewson (Lockheed Martin) to name but a few of the female CEO’s running Fortune 500 companies. Women are represented on the Supreme Court. Inequality for women just does not stand up as a valid argument.

As a group, they do not suffer from lack of access, upper mobility, or any other feigned injustice. In fact, they have a leveraged preference in government contracts via the Women Owned Enterprise (WBE) set asides under the guise of equal opportunity.

Wear all the silly hats you want, print up the most vulgar signs, subject your children to a march that fosters such adversarial positions and it will not matter in the long run. The country will run with or without the support of this disgraceful collection of angry women. Perhaps they might want to engage in real conversations, with real facts in a civilized manner and maybe just maybe someone will listen.

Bullies can wear a Tampax, it is no excuse.