The Ladies Let It Allllll Hang Out For January 21 March

The Atlantic carries a nice gallery of photos from the day, complete with breathless captions.

Social media is flooded with millions of selfies of smug self-satisfied faces of smiling ladies in little pink hats. It was such a feel-good moment. Never waste an opportunity for a selfie!!

It was the opening stump speech for Elizabeth Warren, catching up with Michelle--who has been crafting hers for some years now. It was Madonna at her potty-mouth lowest, it was the literati and the famous and those who seek to be famous and those looking to climb back into the public eye. It was quite an event, it was....

The Atlantic did share an impressive array of photos--including the images of Muslim women in headscarves marching for their own 'human rights'. A number of questions come to mind, some too indelicate to state in public.

However, one obvious question comes to mind as OS scans the gallery:

Where are the pictures of brave women in pink hats, wearing crosses and carrying Bibles, or wearing the Star of David, in the huge women's rights march in Riyadh?

What would happen to a group of women who would undertake to do this in a place like that?

Would it occur to all those comfortable middle-class-with-liberal-arts-degrees-from-good-schools ladies in pink hats to brave the journey to Medinah or Cairo to stand with their Christian and Jewish sisters? Or does Sisterhood only extend so far?

Does it extend to the daughters of those women marching with them who are trapped in arranged marriages, or who were or will be mutilated? Or are those things merely 'cultural differences', ergo off limits? Nothing to see here, move along.

Did one of those ladies display a poster with the sexual battery victims of Bill Clinton who were further victimized by Hillary? Or does Sisterhood not extend to them? Don't the Sisterhood demand that victims be believed, unless of course, the victims are Clinton victims?

What of the women who didn't vote their way? What Sisterhood for them?

What of the women who work and work and work, and haven't seen incomes rise in almost twenty years? Those ladies were working today, no time for pink hats and selfies for them.

The questions just keep on coming.

And finally--is it just OS who sees a disconnect between The Donald's inaugural address and the hysteria of the marchers? Does anyone see a disconnect between the dignity of 20 January and the shrill tone of 21 January? Does anyone see a disconnect between the laconic treatment of 20 January and the breathless coverage of 21 January?

Tomorrow is 22 January, Monday is 23 January, etc.

And Donald Trump, thank Heaven, is President.