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Louis Dor
Jan 21, 2018
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More than 200,000 protestors took to the streets of New York City on Saturday, a year to the day after the initial women's marches against the inauguration of Donald Trump, according to a senior adviser to the mayor.
Fuelled in part by Trump administration policies on abortion and the impact of the #MeToo movement, the protesters gathered with renewed fervour and outrage.
Frank Lesser, a former writer for The Colbert Report, tweeted about a man who was standing triumphantly in his underwear on his fire escape as the protesters passed.
He appeared to believe the cheers were for him, rather than the woman dressed in the Supergirl costume two flights up.
That awkwardly symbolic moment when you're a dude in your underwear who thinks the Women's March is cheering for yo… https://t.co/33gSbJHtj1— Frank Lesser (@Frank Lesser) 1516480811
He did eventually appear to realise, but Twitter was already marvelling at the irony:
@sadmonsters https://t.co/Mpii4SvVPn— maura quint (@maura quint) 1516485239
@sadmonsters @goldengateblond Did someone womansplain it to him?— IAteAButterfly (@IAteAButterfly) 1516482255
@sadmonsters IDK. He has nice legs. They both get participation trophies in my book.— Penny (@Penny) 1516483765
As well as the lack of self-awareness in the replies:
@cdeblock @sadmonsters Mansplain Alert.— Qira | BLM (@Qira | BLM) 1516484623
@clintnwilson @sadmonsters @versharma Mansplain alert— Mr. Sara Britton (@Mr. Sara Britton) 1516493532
HT BuzzFeed
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