What Women Want

OK, that caption probably sounds like click-bait, or something that would be an article tease on the cover of some men's magazine (or Cosmopolitan).  It's a joke, of course, because no one knows what women want.

Including, apparently, women.

Last week, we were treated to a set of "women's marches" around the nation, mostly of course, on the coasts.  Ostensibly they were to raise awareness of "women's issues", except that it was pretty murky what those issues might be, except of course for aborting unborn babies -- which is already legal.

I say that, because I took pains to watch some of the on-the-street interviews of women who were out there marching their little feet off.  I really wanted to know what they wanted, because since no one could precisely say what the marches were for, I figured at least the people who were doing the marches ought to have some idea of why they were there.

So it would have been one thing if the marchers interviewed had cited four or five different issues that maybe a dozen of the marchers would have noted when asked.  That would be OK.  What was not so OK, depending on how you look at it, was that the prevailing answer didn't actually have a reason for marching in it, certainly if you concede that answering "women's rights" is a true non-answer.  It is indeed not an answer, given that you pretty much have to explain what rights they currently don't have in law (hint: I don't know either).

That doesn't say they weren't effective, at least in getting attention.  After all, all three of the main TV networks had stories (or at least mention) of the marches, which was curious given that not one of them so much as mentioned the fact that five whole months' worth of texts, between the two senior FBI people who were engaged in an extramarital affair, had disappeared, and the FBI was apologizing profusely to Congress about it.  That was not worth even noting, but the marches for no clear purpose were.

Well, if marches get attention then, by God, it ought to work both ways.

It is clearly time for conservative women to take the streets.  Their message, an economic one that says that a woman who wants a job can now get one since President Trump's removal of regulatory bars to hiring, well, it ought to be heard.  Their message might include a desire to protect their unborn children and promote adoption, but it does not have to -- but it could be heard as well.

Their message, which could include support for the USA military that protects their homes from foreign attack, could be heard.  Even their appeal to have their and their children's jobs protected from competition from illegal aliens could be heard.

There are certainly messages and, although they may not be specific to women, at least they coalesce into a platform, one that coincidentally is the one that won the White House last year.  And I encourage them, accordingly, to take to the march lanes.  Let the nation and the press know that the left does not have a monopoly on what's good for women, especially when they send female marchers out who apparently don't even know why they are walking.

Of course, this has been done before, although primarily for the single issue of opposing abortion.  Curiously enough, the press either never covered them, or spent an equal amount of coverage on the opponents, even if they weren't 1% in number of the total.  So maybe conservative women, not all of whom are even pro-life, ought to try to take all their issues out there and march in numbers that the press can't ignore.

I might even walk with them, and I have a Y chromosome.

Copyright 2018 by Robert Sutton
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