To bloody love Madonna for doing this?

[Destinysdaughter]

I've been watching the speeches from the Washington women's march today and have felt so inspired and uplifted by them, it's really given me hope, didn't know Madonna was going to be there and I don't want to take away anything from the other speakers as they've all been brilliant but I just wanted to say well done Madonna for being there and adding your voice ( and admittedly celebrity kudos and attention) to this amazing show of dissent, power and love.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/live/2017/jan/21/womens-march-on-washington-and-other-anti-trump-protests-around-the-world-live-coverage?page=with:block-5883cfe4e4b00b8fc2ae363c#block-5883cfe4e4b00b8fc2ae363c

Creating a climate of fear is dangerous. We now have a society in which reading the wrong book or being seen with the wrong people or making an "off" joke can lose you your job and provoke abuse.

Yup, the new McCarthyism comes from the "liberal" left.

Well obviously they demonstrate against the EDL and NF. But that brings up a two pronged reason why people are reluctant to organise protests on things like Rotherham.

Firstly, demonstrations like that can and do get hijacked by people like the EDL and Britain First who would start sharing them on their FB pages and encouraging people to attend. And really who would want to end up in a position where they were painted as being associated with them? On the left wing the Socialist Worker does exactly the same thing and has form for turning up handing out signs and holding huge banners pretending they've organised it.

Secondly, the UAF etc do have a bit of form of labelling anybody who doesn't quite fit in with their agenda as a facist and protesting against them even if they're not.

It is rather a chicken and egg situation and one I believe a local residents group protesting against the building of a large mosque because of issues over the designation of land as green belt and questions over the planning approval process not being properly followed faced. On one hand you get people you'd rather not associate with getting involved, on the other you risk being put in the same box as them by people like the UAF.

Which does really show exactly why people are so fearful of getting publicly involved with something which might be perceived as close to that territory.

Great to see so many strong women in here who refuse to become sheep! These marches where mostly for right on Facebook status updates.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38717186

Will there be a protest March about this??? Will there fu (k.

Nothing stopping you from organising one, yeeoo.

Nothing except the various "liberal" and anti racism groups that would activity try and destroy my life.

The woman is a fucking moron. She took a peaceful march which had a genuine cause, and used it as a platform to spout off, and make some stupid reference to bombing the Whitehouse.

There are laws about bomb threats, I guarantee if you or I had said that, we would have been prosecuted - regardless of whether you were joking.

The woman is a disgrace to every female on the planet.

She's an embarrassing Pratt. I cringed

"Madonna is a disgrace to every female on the planet".riiight.for millionth time don't exaggerate
Frankly you lost it at every female

She took a peaceful march which had a genuine cause

Which was what, exactly? Not trying to be an arse, but I can't seem to pin down exactly what they were marching about. It seems to have been a mish mash of causes, ideologies and opposing groups.

It was a general Anti trump march hiphop, Anyone and everyone jumping on the banwagon.

It was an absolute shambles.

Madonna's star fizzled out many years ago (my teenage DDs and their friend's have no idea who she is) but, sadly, she seems incapable of fading gracefully from view.

Instead, she keeps trying desperately to portray herself as a feisty, sassy, relevant 30-something. It's embarrassing.

I was at the march in NYC. It was cordial and respectful. Some of the signs were a bit close to the cuff, but there was no trouble, and people sang with heart the national anthem before the main rally began, and applauded the passing fire trucks and police cars.

As far as what's at stake:

Abortion limitations.
LGBT rights.
Public education as we know it, with alternative proposals ranging from vouchers to online learning.

And on and on and on...

The marchers were a diverse bunch. They were tony, working-class, smartly dressed, not giving a damn about how they dressed, white, black, Hispanic, day, straight, from a few months old to ninety-years-old and determinedly walking with a cane.

*gay, that should obviously read.

The marchers were a diverse bunch.

Such a shame it was overtaken by the "Women's March" people isn't it, to the point where it's now being thought of as a Women's March.

We now have a society in which reading the wrong book or being seen with the wrong people or making an "off" joke can lose you your job and provoke abuse

Care to provide any concrete examples there? .

It is rather a chicken and egg situation and one I believe a local residents group protesting against the building of a large mosque because of issues over the designation of land as green belt and questions over the planning approval process not being properly followed faced

Care to provide a link to this, at all?.

I'm just waiting for someone to tell us that you can't wish someone Happy Christmas because Muslims will take offence, and then I believe we will have a full house in our game of bigot bingo .

243 messages in, and correct me if I'm wrong, but not a single one of these posters who are so searingly, dreadfully offended that the marches in the US didn't focus on the oppression of women in Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia etc, have, actually, admitted to getting off their arses and doing anything whatsoever in support of these women in Nigeria, Pakistan, or Saudi Arabia.

full house in our game of bigot bingo

Oh God the irony

stubbornstains - do you ever challenge your own thinking? You come across as being very narrow minded.

When stupid men say stupid things, the whole entire planet's population of men aren't assumed to be represented by that man. Yet this is not the case when someone like Madonna makes a bit of a childish speech.

She's entitled to her opinion. It's as simple as that.

You know someone's losing the arguement when they start introducing the word 'bigot' into their posts. It's a word thrown into the mix when forcing their opinions on others isn't working.

For all of those who were saying that those marching only care about America and were ignoring the poor rights of women in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia etc: huff.to/2jRogWT

This is what I was trying to tell you- it's ALL women's rights and Trump has already done significant damage and we are only 3 days in.