“The symbol that for me means the absolute most and means everything is freedom,” Hearns explained. “The hat won’t prove anything. The actions of the people will."Follow NBC Out on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
This hat proves a lot for women, the people this is about.
The former organizing director of Black Lives Matter said the hat’s symbolism is disrespectful of grassroots movements that have tried to create a progressive conversation around the “anatomy of all people.” She believes that in order for movements to be truly intersectional they must center around the most marginalized.
This movement isn't supposed to be intersectional it's supposed to be for women who have faced sexual assault or harassment. It's like there's this battle created by transgender people to be included in something that has nothing to do with that movement. This is like if men made a penis hat and came out wearing them and trying to be a part of this movement.
“We need to work on dealing with the problems at hand, not a stupid hat,” Mendus said.
yes
“There are transgender people being murdered or living in the streets all over this country, constantly, and transgender women and cisgender women need to be together on that front,” Mendus said. “All people need to work together to try to deal with that rather than worrying about this language policing or making of safe spaces, quite frankly.”
It sounds to me like transgender people need their own movement with support like the pussyhat movement.
“[President Donald Trump] has come out very strongly against reproductive rights and has targeted people with vaginas,” Mendus said. “Cisgender women especially they are targeted and transgender men are obviously caught in the shot as well, and they are the ones who have that sort of genitalia, and they’re the ones who are under attack at the moment.”
exactly
Keegan said the pussyhat seems to send an unconscious message that only cisgender women experience sexual assault. But according to the Office for Victims of Crime, one in two transgender individuals have experienced this type of victimization.
The pussy hat isn't meant to exclude transgender people, it's just a movement focusing on one particular focus group, rather than many.
“If people were really paying attention to reproductive rights they would know that in many, many states in the U.S., transgender people are required to become sterilized to change our [legal] genders,” Keegan said.
Well this really sucks
eegan believes transgender people, like cisgender women, are fighting for autonomy over their own bodies, but feels their issues are often seen as separate and less important.
The issue is that the states are misinterpreting the issue that transgender people face. While this topic is hard for even me to comprehend fully, especially considering I am not experiencing the issue from first person point of view. But it appears the state is trying to basically deliver a big "f*ck you" to transgender people because they're insisting on making this issue a biological one rather than what it really is.
“But I don’t want to shy away from the fact that it does refer to the female reproductive organ,” Suh said. “That’s a huge issue right now. How can women’s rights supporters of any gender… protect these literal reproductive parts from unfair legislation?”
It is okay for women who founded a movement to go through with their movement. When transgender people start their own movement and it concerns transgender people, then they can choose whatever color they want and whatever shape and word they want.
“[Women are] given all these crap chores and hoops to jump through, saying that [when you’ve done them], then we [society] will respect you,” Suh said. “I just don’t want to play that game anymore.”
This is true. Women are set to high standards physically and mentally and they are degraded for things they're equally good or better at like driving for no reason.
By embracing pink, marchers sent a clear message: “We don’t care what you think,” Suh explained.
Taking something negative and flipping it to be positive, sort of like how black people use the n word.
But controversy exploded around the hat online. Aside from getting criticized over its reference to genitalia, the knitters were accused of excluding women of color. Some of the hat’s critics believed the its pinkness was a reference to flesh tone.
This is ridiculous because 0 white people are pink.
The Pussyhat Project created the do-it-yourself knitting pattern and put it online prior to the march. It spread rapidly across the internet. On January 21 — the day of the Women’s March — cat-eared protesters poured into cities worldwide to take a stand for women’s rights, leaving a sea of pink in their wake. In the days after, the knitters would see their hat on the cover of Time Magazine and The New Yorker. Suh felt amazed.
This project was subject to a serious take off in popularity and support, showing just how willing women are to actively make a difference.
“We want to reclaim that word,” Suh said
This line proves my last annotation
The Los Angeles screenwriter said the concept was inspired by outrage over President Trump’s “grab 'em by the pussy” comment captured in a 2005 Access Hollywood recording. The symbolism is all about “pussy power,” she explained. She said the knitters were frustrated that the most intimate part of their bodies is often used as a catchword for weakness.
In light of Donald Trump's statement saying "grab her by the p*ssy" women decided to use that as inspiration to fuel their fire in the fight for equality.
“I think ‘pussy’ refers to the female anatomical part, but it’s also a word that’s used to shame people who are feminine … whether they are men, women [or] genderqueer. And I think what it comes down to is that femininity is really disrespected in our society,” Suh explained.
The goal of the pussy hat, is to turn a word with a negative connotation into something positive.
“I never thought that by calling it the ‘pussyhat’ that it was saying that women’s issues are predicated on the possession of the pussy,”
The issue is that the "pussyhat" has been linked with gender because a "pussy" which is a vulgar word for a vagina, is a female body part... but this still is the "women's march".
equated gender with biology
This is the newly surfaced issue, is whether or not gender determines biology, and how transgender people claim it doesn't but rather your mind and hormones determine your biology.
The cat-eared “pussyhat” became the crown of the Women’s March in January. Many saw it as a symbol of female empowerment -- and still don the pink hat weeks after the event that catapulted it to fame. But others believed the pussyhat equated gender with biology, making some transgender people feel excluded from the movement.
Even though the pink cat eared pink hat which resembles women's equality was supposed to be a good thing promoting equality for women, transgender people don't like it because it's pink and has correlated gender with biology. Even though this is a women's march and the women, whom this march is for, chose pink, for the women's march.
Something extremely important to our understanding of culture and history is not what material objects from different cultures and society are, and not only what they indicate or represent, but rather how they indicate and represent these things. This material physical item raises questions in my mind that get into what and how this crayon represents. I believe this crayon could signify an age of art and creative culture, a spiritual and religious societal presence, and most interestingly to me, a possible economic/market system.
The find, together with another scraped ochre stone, found nearby, also described in the paper, add to a growing understanding of the lives and culture of the hunter-gatherers who spent time on the shores of the ancient lake.
My question is not what this crayon represents but how it represents it and how it defines culture during mesolithic times. I believe this crayon meant evidence of an artistic society where art was used for one of the following reasons: recording historical content, creating art for leisure, creating art for market purposes (which would imply these people had a means of trade and currency), and for religious or spiritual reasons.
British archaeologists have uncovered a 10,000-year-old crayon that provides a tantalising glimpse into the lives of Mesolithic settlers.
According to the picture above, this looks more like a chalky material than a crayon. Crayons are made of wax; as you read further in the article it becomes evident that thias has way less in common with a crayon than it does chalk.