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To downplay the banners as meaningless also ignores what culture actually is and where it comes from. Culture is inextricable from language. We, as individuals and as societies, establish identities around the words used in private conversations, the ones shouted on banners, and those printed in magazines. And the notion that foolish people doing thoughtless things isn’t newsworthy is absurd.

if we have indeed reached a place where some thoughtless people get called out for using the language of a culture that normalizes the objectification of and violence against women, that may be progress.

The suggestion that women should suppress their anger in deference to grown men who want to marginalize them in the name of “a little fun” is childish.