Posted by Yog

I infact could have said your name correctly last time we talked, but it just felt weird in my head.

Exactly, I feel like theres some people I've just known on here for too long by their graal names that it would be weird to call them otherwise

or maybe im the weird one!!  

I thought a lot about committing an act of terrorism...

But I realized that won't do anything...

So I chose love!

Spoiler

Madonna logic.

GG Madonna, maybe ISIS can have you in their next propaganda vid.

Overall, the march wasn't all that bad.

Just a lot of things I don't quite understand about what some of these people are protesting.  

While it sucks that we feel the need to have peaceful marches to spread the message of acceptance, I think that it was successful. While I did not go to one, several of my friends did and told me how cool it was that everyone got together and really did have a peaceful march. There was no rioting, and people of all ages went. Makes me feel better about the future of countries everywhere to see this sense of unity.  

It's pretty bizarre how the organizer of this march is an open anti-Semite who is proudly in support of Sharia law. She can be traced many years back, receiving taxpayer dollars to spew out pro-Muslim, anti-American garbage. There are even reports that claim she has been in meetings with Hamas financiers and people with links to Islamic extremism. Here's an example of "moderate" views from these kinds of people:

So, cutting to the chase, anyone who claims to be for the benefit of women yet also supports Sharia law is an absolute moron. There's no gentler way to put it…

Under Sharia law:

• Women can be beaten
• Marriage and sex with pre-*****cent girls is permissible
• Wives are forced to be subservient
• Women are not given the same divorce rights as men
• Women are deemed lacking faith and intelligence
• Raping female captives is permissable

It's blatantly obvious that her first priority is the spread of Sharia law and Islamification of the West. She's taking advantage of a weak point in history where many Americans are obsessed over the words of a guy with a bad haircut and spray tan, and she's hijacking the issue to further incite anti-American sentiments.

Many of the people who may have protested may not follow her views, but it's a manipulation and exploitation of the issue. It's completely moronic and contradictory to in one tweet promote your "women's march" and in another fawn over Sharia law. It doesn't help that people like Madonna and Katy Perry are the ones standing up and trying to become the face of this movement… The whole thing was created by an anti-Semite and is being coat-tailed by angry female entertainers who are struggling to remain relevant.  

Posted by Thallen

It's pretty bizarre how the organizer of this march is an open anti-Semite who is proudly in support of Sharia law. She can be traced many years back, receiving taxpayer dollars to spew out pro-Muslim, anti-American garbage. There are even reports that claim she has been in meetings with Hamas financiers and people with links to Islamic extremism. Here's an example of "moderate" views from these kinds of people:

So, cutting to the chase, anyone who claims to be for the benefit of women yet also supports Sharia law is an absolute moron. There's no gentler way to put it…

Under Sharia law:

• Women can be beaten
• Marriage and sex with pre-*****cent girls is permissible
• Wives are forced to be subservient
• Women are not given the same divorce rights as men
• Women are deemed lacking faith and intelligence
• Raping female captives is permissable

It's blatantly obvious that her first priority is the spread of Sharia law and Islamification of the West. She's taking advantage of a weak point in history where many Americans are obsessed over the words of a guy with a bad haircut and spray tan, and she's hijacking the issue to further incite anti-American sentiments.

Many of the people who may have protested may not follow her views, but it's a manipulation and exploitation of the issue. It's completely moronic and contradictory to in one tweet promote your "women's march" and in another fawn over Sharia law. It doesn't help that people like Madonna and Katy Perry are the ones standing up and trying to become the face of this movement… The whole thing was created by an anti-Semite and is being coat-tailed by angry female entertainers who are struggling to remain relevant.

As Guri stated, only a part of the women's march was for women's rights themselves. Dozens of other rights are being celebrated. So honestly, I don't really care if she's in support of sharia law or not, and I'm sure everyone who participated in the protests doesn't either.  

Posted by Admiral

I've thought about this before (not specifically Dusty) but any graalian really, would I call them by their graal name?

Then I realised if someone called me admiral I'd probably feel a bit odd but oh well

I was talking about how you have to roll the R in Guri's name, but sure.

What was this thread about again?  

You're saying that the people involved in a women's march have no opinion about Sharia law or the women who support it? It's also worth noting that women who support Trump and women who are pro-life were turned away from many of these women's marches, at least in the US. It's weird to slap a name like "women's march" on an event with a much narrower focus…  

Posted by Thallen

You're saying that the people involved in a women's march have no opinion about Sharia law or the women who support it? It's also worth noting that women who support Trump and women who are pro-life were turned away from many of these women's marches, at least in the US. It's weird to slap a name like "women's march" on an event with a much narrower focus…

I'm going to assume that a lot of people didn't know about it. You can call this ignorance, but it is what it is. The people I know that went to the march didn't know about who organized it, they just knew that there was a women's march going on.  

Posted by KristenGW

I'm going to assume that a lot of people didn't know about it. You can call this ignorance, but it is what it is. The people I know that went to the march didn't know about who organized it, they just knew that there was a women's march going on.

Correct, I understand and agree with this, as I say here:

Posted by Thallen

Many of the people who may have protested may not follow her views, but it's a manipulation and exploitation of the issue. It's completely moronic and contradictory to in one tweet promote your "women's march" and in another fawn over Sharia law. It doesn't help that people like Madonna and Katy Perry are the ones standing up and trying to become the face of this movement… The whole thing was created by an anti-Semite and is being coat-tailed by angry female entertainers who are struggling to remain relevant.

It's an exploitation of the issue because the person organizing this clearly has an interest in inflaming the American people against America. Why not a women's march against the spread of Islam and Sharia law? Sharia law is the biggest danger to women worldwide.  

Posted by Thallen

Correct, I understand and agree with this, as I say here:

It's an exploitation of the issue because the person organizing this clearly has an interest in inflaming the American people against America. Why not a women's march against the spread of Islam and Sharia law? Sharia law is the biggest danger to women worldwide.

That's a good point, but these marches happened because of what was happening politically at the time. The point was to send a message to the government. Hopefully there will be movements for issues such as you mentioned, but the marchers felt the need to focus on the current political situations.  

Well who's an easier target?

Sharia law (ISIS) or Trumps hair?

Like Thallen said, ISIS and radical Islam is by far the biggest threat to actual feminism and yet, nobody utters a word about it.

Its always, "Trump this, Trump that."

Meanwhile there are women in the middle east being executed for just wanting to go to school.

Here, women can achieve the highest level of education but still act like its the 1920s.

Ya'll want to talk about privilege and rights, take a look at where we are compared to some other countries and you'll see where all that stuff went...  

Posted by Thallen

You're saying that the people involved in a women's march have no opinion about Sharia law or the women who support it? It's also worth noting that women who support Trump and women who are pro-life were turned away from many of these women's marches, at least in the US. It's weird to slap a name like "women's march" on an event with a much narrower focus…

Maybe they do, maybe they don't. But that isn't the point of this march. The point of the march was to march for things they love or enjoy, and actually, participating in a march can actually be quite enjoyable.

As for the "trump supporter" thing, I'm sure that happened in some places, but my sister-in-law (who is a trump supporter) and my brother (who does not support trump) went out and marched for LGBT rights, because my sister-in-law is. Everybody was marching for something different, so it isn't really fair to slap a label on the march and then assume that's what everyone was marching for. I'm sure a few people marched because they just thought it would be fun.  

Saying you can't feel bad because someone has it worse is like saying you can't feel happy because someone has it better  

Well I don't know.

How can one feel happy when so many others are so much less fortunate than you?

Its almost like you people are *gasp* privileged?

I'm not saying you shouldn't ask for a better life but saying your life is less fair is dreadfully misleading.

We're pretty fortunate, feel at least a little bit bad about it every once in a while.  

Posted by 5hift

We're pretty fortunate, feel a bit bad out it every once in a while.

Me, ya. but I try to stay away from woman and LGBT rights because I genuinely don't know anything about it. Sure being subjected to Sharia law sucks but I can think of a lot of ****ty inbetweens.