Official Women's March Organizers Promote "Confront White Womanhood" Movement

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You can't make this up...

On their official Twitter account, Women's March posted the following message on December 14th:

"Hey all! Women's March organizers will be on @SXMProgress @MakeItPlain at 7:30am ET Friday, 12/15, to talk about how to #ConfrontWhiteWomanhood. Tune in from SiriusXM 127 or look out for a livestream at the link here: http://www.facebook.com/MakeItPlain"

The livestream they mentioned, which took place on Facebook page Make It Plain, featured a panel that discussed the topic of "confronting white womanhood." Women's March organizers Sophie Ellman-Golan, Heather Marie Scholl and Rhiannon Childs were in attendance:

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Never heard of #ConfrontingWhiteWomanhood? Neither have we until now.

After a bit of research, we discovered an article from October on Cosmopolitan titled Inside the Most Popular Panel at the Women's Convention: "Confronting White Womanhood" and written by Hannah Smothers.

According to the article:

"The panel was held on Friday as planned, but interest was so high that only a fraction of the (mostly white) women waiting in line were able to get in. Almost immediately after Friday's session ended, the panel organizers planned a repeat of 'Confronting White Womanhood' for Saturday afternoon. The line outside of Saturday's panel was again so long that women behind me in line joked that every white woman at the convention must be in it. Women crowded in to sit on the floor and stand in the back of the room. Then the location was changed to a larger meeting room with about 500 seats, which is what prompted the unintended Women's March portion of the Women's Convention."

Well, she definitely wasn't wrong about the mostly white women who were waiting in line to attend:

A calendar event screenshot was featured in the article which described exactly what the panel was about:

"For centuries, violence has been done in the name of - and even physically enacted by - white women. While all people are welcome to attend, this workshop is designed for white women committed to being part of an intersectional feminist movement to unpack the ways white women uphold and benefit from white supremacy. The workshop will include personal story-sharing, vulnerable discussions about complicity, and empower attendees to disrupt white supremacy from within their own communities."

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Have we literally entered The Twilight Zone??

It's possible.

Per the Detroit Metro Times, ticket prices for October's Women's Convention were around $295 each:

"Tickets for the gathering at Cobo Hall in Detroit cost $295, plus an $8.37 online processing fee, for three-day general admission. For youth (under the age of 25) and students, it’s $125 and $4.12 in processing — one-day passes for Friday or Saturday have the same costs. On Sunday, it’s $75 and $2.87 processing. "

So, you're telling us a bunch of (mostly) white women paid that exorbitant amount (plus airfare, hotel, food, etc.) to attend a panel that shamed them into feeling guilty about their race AND gender while confronting their "oppressive" womanhood?

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Okay... this is really getting crazy.

Continuing on with Cosmo's article, and reaffirming our previous point, a couple of the Women's March organizers who spoke at the panel voiced their opinion on the movement and why it's good:

"Scholl and Ellman-Golan see the way the leadership of the Women's March — many of whom are women of color — has mobilized white women as a good thing. 'We live in a world where some people have power and some people don't,' Ellman-Golan said. 'Racism is and white supremacy is the problem that white people need to fix.'"

They went on to explain how "Confronting White Womanhood" started:

"Scholl co-conceptualized 'Confronting White Womanhood' with Ellman-Golan over the past year. Ellman-Golan reached out to Scholl about putting together a panel that would facilitate discussions about the ways white women contribute to white supremacy and violence against black men when Betty Shelby, a white woman and former police officer in Oklahoma, was acquitted for fatally shooting Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old black man. They've tried to present the panel discussion before, but they said a lack of interest stopped them from going forward with it. Friday at the Women's Convention was the first time they said it was 'fully implemented' to an overflowing room of women."

Now, if you're thinking the room this panel took place in was designated as a "safe space," you're wrong. It was actually called a... "brave space":

"'We’re not going to pretend that this will be a safe space, and it certainly will not be a comfortable space,' she said, addressing the packed room of women, many of whom were taking notes in their laps. 'Assume good intentions, we’re all here, we all f*** up all the time. If you’re a white woman and this feels hard, please try to stay. That’s where the brave part comes in.'"

So, is this movement really a good thing for our society and culture as a whole?

Probably not.

Someone who might agree also coined a famous saying nearly eight years ago: