Freud.) That genital lack has often been thought to symbolize intellectual and moral deficiency and has provided a convenient way to justify women's second-class citizenship.ĭuring last year's campaign cycle, the art collective Indecline surreptitiously erected life-size statues of a naked Donald Trump in six cities across the country. And who "lacks" between their legs more than women? Historically, the whole idea gets a rundown in psychoanalytic literature, which reduces the vagina to a source of penis envy for women and castration anxiety for men. Making fun of Trump's small appendages belittles him on the basis that he is lacking in the penile department - aka that he is more "feminine."Īlso popular, and no less problematic, were signs that allude to gay sex as a form of taunting, like one sign I saw in New York that proclaimed, "Putin's butt boy not my President." When feminists use this narrative, we play into Trump's message that manliness is what matters, and that women and gay men are laughable.Ī small penis is derided because it means a lack between your legs. The small hands line is a tempting way to lash out at Trump, but there's a big problem: it is essentially woman-hating. The joke speaks to the cultural notion that a man's virility is equal to his strength, and that both can be measured by the size of his genitalia.
The joke is that small hands mean a small something else, and that a small you-know-what is a sign of a man's weakness. "Keep your tiny hands off my rights," read another.
"Big ovaries trump small hands," read one sign I kept bumping into at the Paris march. Like at any protest, much of the message was made through signs, quite a number of which played on what is possibly Trump's biggest sore spot - his small hands. It’s sure to be damn sight better than having to sit through 3 Doors Down and watching Trump himself trying not to burst into flames as he places one of his decidedly tiny rat claws on the bible to be officially sworn in as the President of the United States.Pictures from the Women's Marches on January 21 show a movement declaring that the future is female in the face of President Donald Trump's misogyny. The song itself has been uploaded to SoundCloud and you can listen to it below. What better way to get the message across than to chant “ We don’t want your tiny hands/Anywhere near our underpants” over and over.
The march is one that demonstrates a commitment to standing “ in solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families – recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country.” It seems that while Trump’s team had a hard time finding just about anyone to play at his inauguration (at the moment, it’s been confirmed that 3 Doors Down, Toby Keith, Big & Rich, Jackie Evancho and Sam from Sam & Dave will be playing… as if anyone even knows who they are…), organisers of the Women’s March have estimated about 200,000 people have registered to take part in a protest that appears to inherently oppose just about everything Trump stands for. Now with his inauguration fast-approaching, the singer-songwriter has once again loaned her talents to the anti-Trump cause. She performed the the song in a rare live appearance during a Standing Rock Benefit, which supported the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Over the recent holiday season, Apple shared the wonderfully festive Trump’s Nuts Roasting On An Open Fire, a take on Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song which included lyrics such as: “Everybody knows some money and entitlement can help to make the season white/Mothers of color with their kids out of sight will find it hard to sleep at night.” on January 21, the day after the President-elect’s inauguration. Now, she’s teamed up with composer Michael Whalen to give us all a little reminder of exactly where she stands, delivering a protest chant written for the Women’s March on Washington that is taking place in D.C. Fiona Apple has made no secret of her dislike for Donald Trump in the past.
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