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[–]MarkTwainiac 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

From the website of the Pussy Hat Project

The name Pussyhat™ was chosen in part as a protest against vulgar comments Donald Trump made about the freedom he felt to grab women’s genitals, to de-stigmatize the word “pussy” and transform it into one of empowerment, and to highlight the design of the hat’s ’pussycat ears’. Leveraging social media and the close-knit nature of the global knitting community, word was spread and the fuse was lit.

https://www.pussyhatproject.com/our-story

The hats originated in response to the shaming of women by Trump, a man who is an exemplar of domineering, blowhard, attention-seeking misogyny in its more traditional form. And the hats quickly went out of fashion coz of the shaming of women by trans-identified men, who exemplify domineering, blowhard, attention-seeing misogyny in its latest and currently most fashionable form.

Website of Krista Suh who says she first came up with the idea: Krista Suhhttps://kristasuh.com/the-pussyhat/

The Pussy Hat Project and Suh say Kat Coyle, owner of Little Knittery, designed the pattern. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pussyhat-project

[–]hmimperialtortie 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the extra info!

I cringe a bit at the “empowerment” bit. Verrrry optimistic, like the whole “reclaiming slurs” idea - we’ve seen how well that went.

It always strikes me that Trump would fit perfectly in the trans movement. He’s already got the misogyny, the addled brain, the perversions, the dreadful hair, the layers of makeup ...