Pussy hats are offensive.
Many people are excluded from the contemporary women’s movement due to its “reproductive system-focused” nature, the University of Oregon’s Taylor Griggs argues, especially transgender individuals.
Writing in the Daily Emerald, Griggs says campaigns such as “free the nipple” and the knitting of pussy hats overlook the trans demographic, and she quotes Mic columnist Marie Solis who goes further — that such are oppressive to transgender women due to the message “having a vagina is essential for womanhood.”
Griggs does concede the whole situation is a bit complicated. She understands, you see, the rationale of “genitalia-centered rhetoric” as a logical backlash to now-President Trump’s “attacks on the female reproductive system,” and admits that female reproductive organs do have a place in any dialogue.
But … don’t dare forget about intersectionality![…]
Ah, yes — in these modern times we certainly can’t have anyone feeling uncomfortable — or “unsafe” — by … donning a pussy hat.
Ms. Griggs might want to add “preposterously ridiculous” in there, but that wouldn’t fit the narrative, natch.