In the lead-up to International Women’s Day, a debate emerged over whether the general women’s strike planned might merely end up as a day of leisure for ladies who’d probably be lunching regardless. Some progressive critiques—Sady Doyle in Elle, Maureen Shaw in Quartz—framed race and class privilege as something to keep in mind when organizing a strike whose aim is ostensibly to battle such privilege. Notably, these critiques did not argue that the strike was conceptually bad idea. (In response, strike organizers ultimately spelled out that they were taking privilege into consideration.) Others—including several conservatives and the politically hard-to-place—used the presumed privilege of would-be strikers as a pretext for dismissing the endeavor.