I'm in Michigan this weekend, celebrating my eldest son's 18th birthday. We were driving through Detroit in a futile attempt to go to the Detroit Art Institute (thanks, terrible parking!).
As we were driving around, something caught my eye: a protest of women carrying anti-Trump signs and wearing pussy hats. My son wouldn't let me get out of the car to speak to them (I even promised him I'd be nice...mostly). But we decided to head to the aquarium instead, so we left the protesters to rant and rage.
I don't doubt for a second they timed this protest for today -- International Women's Day. Which is fitting, given its actual history.
Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary and politician who marked the first International Women's Day in 1909. Of the minor holiday, she wrote:
Women’s Day did achieve something. It turned out above all to be an excellent method of agitation among the less political of our proletarian sisters. They could not help but turn their attention to the meetings, demonstrations, posters, pamphlets, and newspapers that were devoted to Women’s Day. Even the politically backward working woman thought to herself: 'This is our day, the festival for working women.'
And on this year's International Women's Day, it's good to remember where its roots lie: in socialism and political activism and not about honoring women.
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If it were about women, the Democratic Party would -- among other things -- have not voted unanimously to give men access to women's sports and safe spaces. Instead, they use it as the socialist-political cudgel it was intended to be.
Why Democrats have decided that men make the best women -- and that the feelings of a minority of delusional men trump the rights of actual women -- is beyond me. But the message to women should be loud and clear: a century after suffrage, women are once again second-class citizens.
I have long argued that this is the actual patriarchy and not the made-up political boogeyman the Left likes to use to scare women into voting for them. So they can turn around and give men access to our locker rooms and athletic competitions.
The farce that is 'International Women's Day' also doesn't apply to women like Gina Carano.
Women like Carano, women like me, have no place in the Left's vision of 'womanhood' and are excluded from their push for 'diversity' because we don't believe all the things they do. And as punishment for our ungoodthink, they seek to destroy our careers and reputations.
I have no doubt those protesting women would've lost their minds at anything I would've tried to say to them. So much for tolerance, huh?
But it's not just our sports and bathrooms, it's not even our careers. it's our actual lives. Today, I am also thinking of the women and girls in Israel who were brutally murdered by Hamas on October 7 and in the aftermath. Like Shiri Bibas, who died along with her two young sons.
While the lives of these women and girls were cut short, spoiled Leftists descended on a library at Columbia to call for an intifada, which would mean the deaths of more Israeli women and girls, and the subjugation of those who survived to the brutality of Islam. And they march at the Detroit Art Institute to call Donald Trump the fascist.
Puh-leeze.
Look at those things I mentioned above in contrast to the made-up grievances of the women in Detroit. They can spend this International Women's Day bloviating about Trump and his supposed 'fascism', but it's very clear they have no clue what actual fascism is or that the ideologies they support harm women more than they could ever imagine Donald Trump does.
