Wednesday, January 1, 2020

$2,000 Tickets And All-Male Speakers: The ‘Make Women Great Again’ Convention Is Causing Outrage On The Internet

“Make Women Great Again”—that’s the tagline of the upcoming “The 22 Convention” that will happen in May in Orlando, Florida. It’s causing some huge waves of disbelief and anger both online and in the media.

Some people are outraged at nearly every part of the convention. That it costs $2,000 dollars for a ticket (though there’s a 2-for-1 early bird deal going on now). That the speaker lineup is composed only of men. That the convention promises to show women how to be “ideal” and “ultimate wives.”

Meanwhile, the convention styles itself as an opponent of feminism and claims to promote “all forms of positive femininity.” It also states on its website that it will be “the mansplaining event of the century.”

“The 22 Convention” with the tagline “Make Women Great Again” is causing outrage

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It promises to show women how to be “ideal” and “ultimate wives”

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All the speakers will be men

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This year will be the first time the “Make Women Great Again” convention will be held. It’s a spin-off from Anthony Dream Johnson’s “The 21 Convention” that’s been running since 2007. “The 21 Convention,” according to the organizers of the event, is a “pro-father, pro-man, pro-masculinity” event that teaches men to be men in the 21st century.

Among the speakers at the “Make Women Great Again” event are Mike Cernovich, a Men’s Rights Activist known for being a ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theorist, as well as Stefan Molyneux who is described by some as a far-right white nationalist.

This is what the convention claims on its website

Meanwhile, the main speaker of the event will be Johnson, who styles himself as “The 1st President of the Manosphere.”

The so-called manosphere is defined on Wikipedia as a loose collection of mostly web-based misogynist movements that are associated with the alt-right. Johnson lashed out at this description and told the media that “this is a standard lies and nonsense smear campaign to undermine the growing strength, size, and positive impact of the manosphere.”

Dear readers, what was your first reaction when you read about the “Make Women Great Again” convention? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.

Some women couldn’t believe that an event like this could take place in modern society

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Here’s what some other people thought of the upcoming event



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Someone Tweets That The Minimum Wage In The US Has Remained The Same For 10 Years, And People Start Sharing Sad Stats

We all have our understanding of what a good New Year’s party is, but Twitter entered 2020 by sharing sad stats. However, while it’s not as exciting as lighting up some fireworks, reflecting on some important social issues really helps to put things into perspective.

Everything started when reporter Ken Klippenstein tweeted that the minimum wage in the US has remained the same for a decade – $7.25. Pretty soon, people began replying to him with other gloomy numbers. The thread has already received over 172K likes and 53K retweets, and it looks like it continues to grow. Unlike the wallets of the minimum wage workers.

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End of the decade

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