How funny is this? For more than a decade, your Congress has been flirting with the idea of adding a Women’s History Museum to the Smithsonian. Right before the COVID experience was thrust upon us, Congress actually passed the Smithsonian Women’s History Museum Act. “The bill cites the under-representation of women in historical accounts, monuments, memorials, and museums, specifically the lack of a national museum. The bill proposes to fill that gap and highlight the contributions by women to U.S. History with the establishment of the National Women’s History Museum.”
Go girl power. Here’s the homepage.
So, what’s the problem? The Women’s Museum doesn’t actually exist. It is a virtual experience. There is nowhere to bring the bacon home to, too, no pan to fry it up in, and as for never letting you forget you’re a man, well – that’s a problem too. A very vocal sliver of the nation, and your congress, doesn’t know what a woman is except to say that men can be women too, so what does that mean for the ‘Women’s Museum’?
It’s not the men-dressed-as-women museum, which might not be so bad if it featured Benny Hill, the Pythons, and The Kids in the Hall. Funny men dressing as women to be funny, but to the left, this is no joke. They bailed on an actual building to house “The Women’s History Museum” because Republicans said no men (dressed as women) allowed.
The bill failed in a 216-204 vote, despite years of bipartisan support for the project. The legislation had been spearheaded by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis.
The collapse came after Republicans amended the proposal to specify that the museum would be dedicated to “preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements, and lived experiences of biological women in the United States.” The revised legislation also prohibited the museum from portraying “any biological male as a female.”
Wait. There’s more!
Democrats claimed the dispute extended beyond transgender issues. The revised bill also granted President Donald Trump authority to select an alternative National Mall site for the museum and included language calling for “equal representation of the diversity of the political viewpoints and authentic experiences held by women in the United States.”
Leaders of the Democratic Women’s Caucus accused Republicans of politicizing the museum effort.
Objecting to Trump picking the site isn’t political? Expecting the women represented to be from other than the progressive wing or viewpoint is politicizing the museum. And since we’re on the subject, who politicized gender to a degree that actually erases women from history?
The Democratic Women’s Caucus comes to mind, which, based on its name, includes men dressed as women and could, in practice, exist without a single actual woman in it?
And that’s what has people worried with regard to a Women’s History Museum. The Left is forcing everyone to accept a world where women might not have a place in their own history. From sports to awards to high-ranking positions in liberal administrations, men are occupying spots pretending to be women, and women, especially Democrat women, are expected to see this as empowering them.
The left hates women so much that they not only demand that they recognize men as women, bend the knee to not just the rhetoric but the practice, and if they refuse, they risk getting ostracized, doxxed, smeared, insulted, and excommunicated.
This is not a phase.
Despite 80% of Americans agreeing that men should not compete with women or occupy their safe spaces, the Democrat Party is not backing down. And when it comes to museums, if men can’t be part of women’s history, then neither can women.
