In a global, history-making protest, more than three million people across the planet banded together over the weekend to fight for human rights as part of the worldwide Women’s March.
The protest stretched as far as Australia, with One Nation leader, and openly pro-Trump supporter, Pauline Hanson commenting on Brisbane’s 400-person-strong turnout.
“Don’t these clowns have anything else better to do with their time other than to hold sad, anti-democracy protests?” she wrote on Facebook, clearly not planning on holding anything back.
“Why on earth would anyone want to walk around in this heat chanting about One Nation and the new President of the United States of America, Donald Trump?”
“Oh well, at least they didn’t seem as bad as the left wing protesters in Washington who were vandalising businesses and committing assaults.”
“And I suppose it’s good that they were out and about and doing a bit of walking because it looked like a few of them needed to get a bit of sun and do a bit exercise.”
Wait… what?
Sure, we didn’t exactly expect the One Nation leader to wave her own hand-painted sign high in the air against President Trump, but her fat-shaming comments serve as an unnecessary low blow that is in no way fair, let alone sensical.
Not only that, but her words just add fuel to the Trump-ignited flame of exactly what pro-women’s rights activists are striving to put out: slanderous comments pertaining to the mere appearance of a person – male or female.
Seriously, Pauline, please explain why you think it’s OK to fat-shame the people who you are supposed to be ‘representing’ on the nation’s political front?
Because, quite frankly, we don’t like it.
