"To My Conservative Sisters"
"While y'all are nitpicking reasons and why's and stuff, I'll be making a fuss to protect your right to do so.
To my conservative sisters mocking and complaining about this historic protest last Saturday, a gentle reminder:
Each time you go to the voting booth to choose your candidate--republican or democrat or green or libertarian--you are doing so because of women who marched.
Each time you practice your right to have an opinion about politics and the workings of your democracy, you are doing so because of women who marched.
Each time you get up in the morning and go to a job outside the home to provide for you or your family, you are doing so because of women who marched.
Each time you purchase or get a refill on your preferred birth control so that you can plan and decide the best time for your family to have children (or how many), you are doing so because of women who marched.
Each time you open a checking account or credit card, buy a property or make an independent financial decision, you are doing so because of women who marched.
Things you have today are a product of protest, social unrest, activism, and resistance. Even the most anti-feminist 21st-century woman still lives in the shadows of female activists who were willing to fight for generations they would never know.
Of course, none of this means that you must subscribe to any particular political party, but I do wish it would cause you to look at protestors with whom you disagree with a degree of respect. The women who marched 100 years ago were also considered deceived and radical. While our struggles are thankfully not identical (and perhaps small in a global context), the spirit of the fight is similar. I am proud when women march in the streets to reclaim their bodies and I am proud when students call out racial injustice and I am proud when people "make a fuss" and disrupt the status-quo, and I am even proud when we can argue about it, because that's what it means to live out this messy democracy.
Complicated and at moments imperfect protest by ordinary citizens has laid the very foundation of human rights, and this Women's March was a reminder that it likely always will."
(Copied and pasted from anonymous author).
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