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You are here: Home / Organizing & Resistance / Don't Mourn, Organize / Late Night Open Thread: Every Day Is Women’s Day

Late Night Open Thread: Every Day Is Women’s Day

by Anne Laurie|  March 9, 201712:59 am| 24 Comments

This post is in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Open Threads, Daydream Believers

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Serena Williams has a message for women all over the world. #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/CcaD7GpTR1

— Audemars Piguet (@AudemarsPiguet) March 8, 2017

"The women's movement has always been, by definition … full of dissent," @rtraister tells @JudyWoodruff #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/KDG6OlNyvO

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) March 8, 2017

Encouraged to see all the Red Shirts out today–something I would have never said on the bridge of the Enterprise.

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) March 8, 2017

#InternationalWomensDay has always been a big deal in the Soviet Union and Russia. Today is the first time I've seen it celebrated in the US

— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) March 8, 2017

Excerpt of my @decorrespondent article on a protest sign. ❤✊Article here: https://t.co/ysNU5IlUl5 pic.twitter.com/aSCknDbTnw

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) March 8, 2017

Recognizing Pat Nixon on #InternationalWomensDay advocated 1st woman on #SCOTUS, 1st #FLOTUS to support ERA, pushed women for Congress pic.twitter.com/TiAGD0wfV4

— Nixon Foundation (@nixonfoundation) March 8, 2017

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! pic.twitter.com/ilvzTnQQUP

— FAN EXPO Canada (@FANEXPOCANADA) March 8, 2017


(Imperator Furiosa)

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  1. 1.

    efgoldman

    March 9, 2017 at 1:06 am

    It’s notable that most of the local and national reporting I saw on Women Stay Home from Work was done by… women.

  2. 2.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 9, 2017 at 1:10 am

    Julia Ioffe ✔@ juliaioffe
    #InternationalWomensDay has always been a big deal in the Soviet Union and Russia. Today is the first time I’ve seen it celebrated in the US

    I find that really interesting

  3. 3.

    Yarrow

    March 9, 2017 at 1:13 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Me too. Not quite sure what to make of it.

  4. 4.

    efgoldman

    March 9, 2017 at 1:19 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: @Yarrow: Going back to Soviet days, women held a lot of jobs, from doctor to assembly line worker, that were normally “men’s work” in the West.

  5. 5.

    Cacti

    March 9, 2017 at 1:35 am

    I was thinking that for a lot of deplorables, “a day without a woman” is pretty much any day that ends with “y”.

  6. 6.

    Mike G

    March 9, 2017 at 1:39 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Yes, indeed. The US establishment has always gone out of its way to suppress the development of any sort of international solidarity by Americans, like how the international May Day worker’s day was co-opted into the national Labor Day in September.
    Sometimes I’m convinced the incredibly dense parochialism of American mass media and ignorance of the rest of the world is part of the same deliberate ideology.

  7. 7.

    drylake

    March 9, 2017 at 1:41 am

    Pretty sure the US is the outlier here, as March 8 is a big deal both in the PRC and in Taiwan.

  8. 8.

    efgoldman

    March 9, 2017 at 1:43 am

    @Cacti:

    for a lot of deplorables, “a day without a woman” is pretty much any day that ends with “y”.

    No, it matters to them. They have to get off their asses and get their own beer.

  9. 9.

    Millard Filmore

    March 9, 2017 at 2:01 am

    Since this is an open thread, here is something I found at democraticunderground.com

    “Details of Russian financing of Trump are soon going to emerge, thanks to a lawsuit filed by a disgruntled Bayrock associate, Jody Kriss”

    http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028768208
    https://twitter.com/Khanoisseur/status/816131160451362816

    On the other hand, so many people say that THEIR tidbit is the smoking gun to take down Trump.

  10. 10.

    Major Major Major Major

    March 9, 2017 at 2:09 am

    Slate (I think) had a good article on the history of international women’s (worker’s) day and its watered down non-labor American version. I learned much.

    Love the Furiosa poster.

  11. 11.

    John Weiss

    March 9, 2017 at 2:20 am

    What the Trumpers and their ilk throughout history have striven to do is to lower the discourse to their own despicable level. To frame the discussion in their own terms. The way to counter this is to refuse to accept their arguments (such as they are) on the frame they insist upon.

    The world, our life, is not shit, it’s not afraid and it’s not premised upon the assumption that it’s horrible and more horrid crap is soon to follow, unless we…

    Fuck those fuckers. I will not knuckle under and you shouldn’t either.

    jw

  12. 12.

    Mnemosyne

    March 9, 2017 at 2:47 am

    I was not able to take time off work today since I’m taking a scheduled vacation next week, but I was heartened to see how many people (both men and women) were wearing red today.

  13. 13.

    Origuy

    March 9, 2017 at 3:29 am

    I was in Moscow four years ago today. Women’s Day is a big deal there. Men are expected to give flowers to just about every woman they know, and Russians give flowers a lot anyway. It’s a work holiday for a lot of people. We went to a museum that was free that day.

  14. 14.

    Oatler.

    March 9, 2017 at 3:38 am

    How about a Lysistrata Day? That would cause commotions!

  15. 15.

    Joyce H

    March 9, 2017 at 4:14 am

    @Origuy:

    I was in Moscow four years ago today. Women’s Day is a big deal there. Men are expected to give flowers to just about every woman they know, and Russians give flowers a lot anyway. It’s a work holiday for a lot of people. We went to a museum that was free that day.

    And yet… this is also the country that just decriminalized domestic violence. So… huh.

  16. 16.

    Joyce H

    March 9, 2017 at 4:24 am

    @Millard Filmore:

    Since this is an open thread, here is something I found at democraticunderground.com

    “Details of Russian financing of Trump are soon going to emerge, thanks to a lawsuit filed by a disgruntled Bayrock associate, Jody Kriss”

    I’ve been thinking for a while that since his Atlantic City debacle, a sizable portion of Trump’s business plan involved laundering money for the Russian mob. Look at those wildly inflated prices they paid for properties of his. Doesn’t make sense unless a good chunk of his profits returned to them under the table to be stashed in the Caymans, safely out of Putin’s reach.

    There was an item in the famous Dossier that didn’t get much attention and which I think could spell real trouble for Trump. That was something that alleged that Trump was reporting to the Russian government on the personal and financial doings of Russian oligarchs in the US. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not – if they THINK it’s true, could open up a whole different avenue of danger for him, and one that doesn’t rely on Republicans in Congress to do something about it.

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    March 9, 2017 at 4:38 am

    Random question: how do I get a sleeping cat off my leg without waking her?

  18. 18.

    sukabi

    March 9, 2017 at 4:41 am

    @Amir Khalid: you don’t.

  19. 19.

    Repatriated

    March 9, 2017 at 4:45 am

    Accept that you’re going to wake the cat.

    Offer treats as an apology.

    That and kind words might suffice.

  20. 20.

    Origuy

    March 9, 2017 at 4:51 am

    @Amir Khalid: Do as the Prophet did, cut it off to avoid waking her.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muezza

  21. 21.

    Origuy

    March 9, 2017 at 4:57 am

    @Joyce H: Yeah, well, there’s Moscow and then there’s the rest of Russia. I don’t know how the vote went down, but I suspect it broke along those lines.

  22. 22.

    Immanentize

    March 9, 2017 at 6:36 am

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Love the Furiosa poster.

    Me too, but don’t let Betty Carcker see it….

  23. 23.

    laura

    March 9, 2017 at 8:38 am

    @Amir Khalid: leave the leg behind

  24. 24.

    pinacacci

    March 9, 2017 at 8:44 am

    @Amir Khalid: what sukabi said

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