All my great grands ON THE MOVE

[Leghorn21]

Last edited Sat Mar 24, 2018, 02:26 PM - Edit history (1)

my darling little sisters!!!

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Ivanka is there?

[MineralMan]

2. Yup, the photo tells the story.

That was not their concern today. Bravi!

[EarnestPutz]

12. It's just another example of how the kids are leading the way.

Some kids are growing less superficial and are starting to see society and it's penchant for consumerism and looks for what it is.
The kids from Florida are angry at adults because they are contemporaries of the first graders at Sandy Hook, and nothing has changed.

[Drahthaardogs]

3. And what if they did?

Does that make their voices somehow less valuable?

This makes no sense.

[nolabear]

5. I know. It's a divisive post. We don't need this.

[MineralMan]

13. Look again. Scroll down to the bottom of the post.

You've missed the posters point altogether.

[nolabear]

14. I don't think so. Correct me if I'm wrong but

the post disses young women who might want to wear makeup, who wear expensive shoes, who preen the way lots of fine, responsible, caring young women just naturally do. It's counterproductive to make them feel unwelcome and looked down on.

[Ms. Toad]

17. You are correct.

It pitts young women who choose to dress in traditionally more feminine ways against those to dive in and get to work (not wasting time on their hair and make-up), treating the two a mutually exclusive.

It is misogynistic because it judges women's worth based on the choices they make about presentation.

[nolabear]

25. Precisely. I love a sneakered warrior and a girly girl warrior equally.

And I say that as an eternal member of the sneaker set.

[malaise]

6. +1,000

This Kelly kid who's talking about his dead twin brother said his brother was the best dress man.

There is nothing wrong with dressing up.

[Leghorn21]

8. No, not less valuable at all, D. I am just an old woman who has watched young women spend

90% of their waking hours working on their lips/eyebrows/eyelashes/skin-care products and immersing their lives into fashion, shopping, and other meaningless pursuits for way too long, and I ain’t never liked it for a minute.

This overproduction of physical appearances (which can include surgery, anywhere on one’s body ffs) has made me sad for quite some time, so when the kids get down to their real selves looking REAL, and become engaged in real and meaningful work - well yep, I’m lovin it!!

(Also, I am a superficial asshole, no question about it!)

[blake2012]

20. Was definitely thinking it an odd angle to take in this

[Kirk Lover]

4. And to know that there are people in the United States who will be killed by gun violence

TODAY.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. It doesnt matter if they wore gunny sacks or ball gowns.

They are out there making their voices heard. That's what counts.

[Angry Dragon]

9. +25,000

[kcr]

10. Thank you

Who cares what they wore or if they have makeup on. Not important.

[Wellstone ruled]

19. You Nailed it perfectly

[cwydro]

11. What an odd OP.

Do you thing women are the only ones who might primp in front of a mirror?

Shame on you. What a shallow thing to post.

[Tarc]

15. The grousers are missing the point, and btw, this thread was alerted upon

This is hitting back at the alt-right whackados who claim that the kids organizing the protests are professional, couched, and trained plants, preening for the cameras, that this is all about spectacle and furthering political agendas. The OP is showing these are everyday teens and young adults who are there with an actual goal and not just to pose.

The stereotype of millennials as vapid, self-absorbed social media obsessives is busted.

[Tarc]

31. "I, too, would likely have voted to hide."

Guess we dodged one there...

[SMC22307]

32. Guess we did. Hey look...

the OP has been edited! Go, grousers! LOL

[Tarc]

33. Score one for mob rule and intimidation....

Proud of yourself, I'm sure...

[SMC22307]

35. ...

[kcr]

24. Really? Grousers? I don't think so. Explain why only the girls were mentioned n/t

[oberliner]

16. What the hell?

Why does it matter if they did or didn't?

[blake2012]

21. Please consider editing to just have the photo

And your pride in young people. The rest is.....questionable.

[librechik]

22. OMG MileyCyrus??/

err not that there's anything wrong with that~


outa here.

[Sam McGee]

26. It's about young people

I'm 73 -- was a college student in Alabama in the 1960's.

While the focus was on the leadership, as it should have been, the foot soldiers were young people. It was young college students and high school kids who sat in at lunch counters and had hot coffee, ketchup, mustard, sugar, salt dumped on their heads . . . and they kept coming. It was college students who were washed down by Bull Connor's fire hoses and bitten by his dogs . . . and we kept coming.

The NRA, Breitbart, Fox, Coulter, Ingraham and the rest of the bullshit artists will mock the young people who spoke and marched today.

They forget the life cycle of a movement:

The movement starts.
The powerful react -- first, they laugh at you.
Then they mock you.
Then they attack you.
Then you win.

[onetexan]

27. Matthew Mcconnaughey was at Austin rally. Thousands of marchers in Houston, Dallas & elsewhere in Tx

https://www.statesman.com/news/local/thousands-austin-students-expected-rally-saturday-for-gun-control-starting-noon/gHAGLBfi6EBw6dYPYZdhuI/

Scroll down to see his pic. He's a Longhorn alumnus. I'm sure other UT Austin students were marching en masse. Woohoo!

[sprinkleeninow]

29. Go figure. I always deemed McConaughey to be aloof

and an elitist bc him being in them Lincoln ads.

Who knew?! Book-judge-cover.

[Demovictory9]

28. great pic. great kids

[Ms. Toad]

30. Thanks for editing the OP!

How fantastic they are!

[Wounded Bear]

34. K & R...to support...nt