Report back from NYC abortion march: Peepeefest.

It may have finally happened. I may actually hate men.

I went to the protest today in NYC. Here are highlights, emphasizing the bullshit.

··> Walking into initial rally, trans flags everywhere. Many signs said: this will affect: Black, Trans, Immigrant, Disabled Lives (not women!)

··> Initial rally chants were: Women's Rights/Trans Rights. Back and forth.

··> Lots of men pushing their way to the front.

··> Men in park selling weed still had their tables set up. Other men still playing music on amps, obscuring speakers.

Now the march:

··> Men were CENTERED. They started every chant. They brought noise makers. They were running up and down with bull horns. This was THEIR time to shine. Mainly college white dudes who would not have DARED to do that shit at BLM.

··> A couple of times I got the crowd to change the chant from: "They don't care about PEOPLE'S lives" to "They don't care about WOMEN'S lives. And a couple of times from "Human rights" to "Women's rights"

··> This one dude bro kept starting chanting and when he started with "MY body" (reply: my choice), I couldn't take it anymore. So I started chanting: LET WOMEN LEAD. Over and over, in his face, until it over powered him. Then some women ran up to try to "explain" that the men were just "supporting us." I swear the guy was going to fight me, but then the girl was convinced I was just starting a new chant and tried to mollify him.

··> Later some guy was drumming next to a girl and was chanting "people's lives!" and I was saying "women's lives". So the guy got louder and louder screaming PEOPLE, so of course I stopped dead in front of him and started saying: "YOU will never be pregnant, YOU will never have an abortion. YOUR life will never be in danger". He kept yelling "PEOPLE" and then...SO DID EVERYONE ELSE. No joke, the entire crowd in the area was making a point it wasn't women's lives in danger. I stopped dead in front of him again and he ran away.

··> Some other butthole who brought an autotune also felt like this was his private show. He also never mentioned women in one of his chants.

··> Then two other dude bros were leading chants and I started in with: Let women lead! And the two guys were smirking in like disbelief, so I got louder and went right up to them. They kept chanting louder, so I started with "THIS IS MISOGYNY" on repeat, and they finally shut up. But you could see in their faces they couldn't believe they had to shut up to a woman.

··> At the end, when I left, I crossed through the march and two guys yelled at me, "WoMeNs RiGhTs!!!" That actually happened. At an abortion march.

General feedback: We have NO women in charge. No women's group was leading this. I got to the front and it was a 19 year old girl on a bullhorn surrounded by 6 guys raging out. There were no speeches, no end point, no goal. Such a different experience from the BLM marches that seemed purposeful, that rallied, and that people had some actual respect for those it was for.

Edit:

I was just thinking today that this is the perfect time to start leveraging the women's liberation symbol. Have flags. Insist it is included on the Pride flag. Wear shirts.

Now with this ruling it is "justified."

We need to not lose momentum with this. This can be a great time to leverage women + bio rights.