JUNEAU – Juneau resistance rally participants didn’t get the memo.
The pink “pussy” hats were fashionable when President Donald Trump was sworn in. But no more. The hats were not welcome at many of the second annual resistance rallies taking place around the nation.
“The Pink P*ssy Hat reinforces the notion that woman = vagina and vagina = woman, and both of these are incorrect,” the Facebook page of the Women’s March in Pensacola, Florida states.
But in Juneau, there were a hundred or more of the hats on display today during the rally in shocking defiance of non-binary people and women of color. The hats are the knit symbols of lady parts, and are now considered politically incorrect.
It seems that transgender people don’t have pink lady parts and neither do many non-Caucasian women.
The hats and the people who wore them gathered at the Alaska Capitol for music, speeches and a cathartic anti-Trump tribal experience. Participants even dressed the statue of William Seward in a pink hat, and draped him with a pink blanket.
Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott spoke at the Juneau “resistance” rally and was warmly applauded. The emcee reminded the crowd that “behind every good man is a woman telling him what to think.” So true, so true.
Legislators attending included Reps. Scott Kawasaki, Geran Tarr, Sam Kito, Harriet Drummond, and Justin Parish. Also, former Rep. Beth Kerttula was present.
Meanwhile, in New York City, Anchorage Assembly member Eric Croft donned his pink pussy hat, which essentially meant he is wearing a replica of a vagina on his head today, and attended the rally rather than going to the museum, which had been his original plan.
This photo provides Must Read Alaska with too many inappropriate thoughts. We are blushing.
John Aronno, who works as an aide to Assembly member Chris Constant, held down the men’s solidarity (can we say that?) fort in Anchorage, but chose a reddish color for his vagina hat for the rally:
In Detroit, women were discouraged from wearing the offending hats, so they would not make uncomfortable the “transgender women and gender non-binary people who don’t have typical female genitalia and to women of color because their genitals are more likely to be brown than pink.”
“I personally won’t wear one because if it hurts even a few people’s feelings, then I don’t feel like it’s unifying. I care more about mobilizing people to the polls than wearing one hat one day of the year,” said Phoebe Hopps, who founded the Women’s March Michigan.
In Juneau, the rally was large, not surprising considering the demographics, and appeared to be a great catharsis for a multitude of angry women and gentle men, who clapped and had spurts of cheering, while carrying signs that “virtue signaled” their moral superiority.
The music was loud and uplifting, some of the signs were funny (“Free Melania”) but many of the faces in the crowd were belabored.
The men who participated wore a submissive “beta-male look,” and didn’t smile much. They did get a lot of estrogen-fueled approval for being there.
The women were taking lots selfies and looking at pictures of themselves on their phones. Facebook will be filled with their images soon. For the grandkids, you know.
