ANTI-TRUMP ‘WOMEN IN WHITE’ SPECTACLE FALLS FLAT
‘Top Democrats refuse to stand, clap for Navy SEAL widow’
CHERYL CHUMLEY
WND.com
3/1/2017
Female Democrats wore white to President Trump’s first speech to a joint session of Congress to convey a solidarity, sister-type rebuke of the White House on women’s issues – but the message fell a bit flat.
Some in the House chamber watched with wonder as woman after woman entered wearing white, not understanding the reasons behind the uniform color.
And as the wearers of white themselves pointed out: The color actually signifies a slew of political and cultural messaging. Confusing?
Indeed.
As Townhall noted: “Unbelievably, a handful of Democratic women who had dressed in white (for reasons hard to understand) to protest the president, remained seated at [Trump’s] mention of our soldiers.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tweeted the reason for the white, saying it was to show support for “women’s rights, in spite of a @POTUS who doesn’t!”
Still, more explanation was needed.
The Hill tweeted: “Dem women wearing white – a symbol of the suffragette movement.”
CNN followed on Wednesday with a full story, explaining the dozens of Democrat women who donned white.
“Many of the 66 Democratic women representatives and delegates who make up the House Democratic Women’s Working Group wore white clothing, dubbed ‘suffragette white,’ in a nod to the women’s rights movement in the early 1900s, which encouraged its supporters to dress in white as a representation of purity,” CNN said.
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