This weekend in Detroit was the Women’s Convention, an effort by the Women’s March to keep the pussy hat momentum going from January’s gatherings in Washington, D.C. and around the world.
The convention flew under the media radar for the most part, but Cosmopolitan was paying attention and wrote extensively about the most popular panel of the weekend, something called “Confronting White Womanhood.”
Inside the Most Popular Panel at the Women's Convention: "Confronting White Womanhood" https://t.co/QvBtEMljWf pic.twitter.com/13g9csGFGA
— Cosmopolitan (@Cosmopolitan) October 29, 2017
Who here attended the Confronting White Womanhood panel at the #WomensConvention? https://t.co/33fLSQNLRy
— Women's March (@womensmarch) October 30, 2017
So excited to learn and absorb this session. #WomensConvention #ReclaimingOurTime pic.twitter.com/AdTJXThZPA
— Anita (@anitalynns) October 28, 2017
In fact, the Friday panel was such a huge draw, the presenters ran it again on Saturday.
Umm…there’s a legit traffic jam to get to the Confronting White Womanhood panel. #WomensConvention pic.twitter.com/UFM321SxmO
— Kelly Dittmar (@kdittmar) October 28, 2017
Yesterday's Confronting White Womanhood panel was in such high demand that we ran it again today. So much love for my co-panelists @HMS_theartist & Rhiannon Child's of @OhioWomensMarch. #WomensConvention #ReclaimingOurTime pic.twitter.com/6pQuB8lGl3
— Sophie Ellman-Golan (@EgSophie) October 29, 2017
So, what can Cosmopolitan tell us about “Confronting White Womanhood”?
Neither [panel co-creator Sophie] Ellman-Golan nor [Heather Marie] Scholl expected there to be such a swell of interest in the panel. Scholl sees the lines of women crowding the panel as a testament to the fact that, post-election, “things feel more dire, particularly for white people.”
“We haven’t often felt that,” she said. “Communities of color have, but it’s new for us.”
The panel itself began with Ellman-Golan giving a disclaimer that the room would be what she called a “brave space.”
“Ellman-Golan then gave a condensed history of instances where white women have been both directly and indirectly responsible for violence against black men,” writes Hannah Smothers. Then, “Scholl gave a miniature lesson in ‘white saviorism’ and spoke about the ways even a well-meaning act from a liberal white woman can be inherently racist.”
White women who refuse to acknowledge their part in white supremacy are historically dangerous
— Heather Marie Scholl (@HMS_theartist) October 30, 2017
So, liberal white women traveled to Detroit to stand in line for a panel on how they’re inherently racist? Linda Sarsour approves.
Courageous conversations. Thank you @EgSophie for your leadership. Love you my sister. #womensconvention https://t.co/UXmrWJHNfi
— Linda Sarsour (@lsarsour) October 29, 2017
Just read this. It's nuts. https://t.co/QJS5ODqwF0
— VicChirpy (@Chirpygeezer) October 29, 2017
https://twitter.com/UmW8What/status/924694599951458304
“Confronting White Women” — leftists conduct another Two Minute Hate against white people … https://t.co/irvq3mPTZr
— TakingHayekSeriously (@FriedrichHayek) October 29, 2017
Drivel.
Unbearable drivel. https://t.co/e1HA1IR1f0— CRS (@CRSapocalypse) October 29, 2017
No.
— Whitney Weibel (@whitney_weibel) October 29, 2017
My favorite part is when the feminists "stampede" through the convention. Sounds about right. #HealthyAtAnySize https://t.co/BkYy2IDWhs
— Patrick Cooper (@PatrickCooper75) October 30, 2017
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