I support today’s Women’s Marches completely.
However I think the gravitas of protests are slightly undermined when all you see or hear about it are the funny signs. It makes it look more like a funny sign competition than a serious political statement. It would have more of a frightening effect if there were no signs at all.
Either that or the signs should be, you know, frightening, not funny. I mean, the point of a protest march is the scare the crap out of the government, right? To overwhelm the police force through sheer numbers? To show you have the numbers to literally run over all obstructions, into the White House, to tear the president into little pieces with your bare hands? Julius Caesar style?
It’s not to have a good time and get your picture in the paper.
Just my two cents.
Someday we’ll get this government protest thing right. We’re still a nation of entitled, complacent, comfortable, wealthy, narcissistic people, when compared to, say, the people in Syria.
