The owner of a Tennessee knitting store doesn't want anyone buying its yarn to make 'pussyhats' for the women's movement, following weekend protests by marchers in knitted, pointy-eared caps.

In a Facebook post on a page for the Franklin, Tennessee, store, The Joy of Knitting owner, Elizabeth Poe, announced the ban on Tuesday and drew thousands of responses - both support and vows of a boycott.

Poe said that as a business owner and a Christian, she promotes values of 'mutual respect, love, compassion, understanding, and integrity'.

But she called the women's movement 'counterproductive' to unity.

'With the recent women's march on Washington, I ask that you if you want yarn for any project for the women's movement that you please shop for yarn elsewhere,' the social media post says. 'The vulgarity, vile and evilness of this movement is absolutely despicable.'

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Elizabeth Poe, the owner of The Joy of Knitting in Franklin, Tennessee, has banned women from buying her yarn to make 'pussyhats' for the women's movement

She announced the ban on Tuesday in a Facebook post that drew thousands of responses - both support and vows of a boycott

The post came after thousands of movement marchers on Saturday wore the pink, pointy-eared hats they called 'pussyhats' - partly responding to Trump's past caught-on-camera remarks about grabbing women's genitalia.

Poe said she made her Facebook post after a customer came into the store asking for pink yarn to knit a hat of their own, according to WKRN.

It's unclear whether the store sold any yarn to people who attended the massive march in Washington, DC, or the protest in nearby Nashville that was one of many held around the world Saturday.

Many commenters on social media called the post bigoted and hypocritical, and they vowed to take their yarn business elsewhere. Others applauded Poe for expressing her strong beliefs.

'While I support your right to make your feelings known, Elizabeth you really need to pick up a history book,' one Facebook user wrote. 'The fact that you are able to own your own business is, in part due to some brave women marching decades ago.'

'You are an example of a strong woman with strong beliefs voicing a strong opinion and I applaud you for it,' a commenter said.

The post came after thousands of movement marchers on Saturday wore the pink, pointy-eared hats they called 'pussyhats' - partly responding to Trump's past caught-on-camera remarks about grabbing women's genitalia

Poe told The Tennessean that her phone has been ringing nonstop since she made the post.

She said she has received more positive private messages than what's visible on the store's Facebook page.

'This is starting to undermine their efforts,' Poe told the newspaper. '... I think if you want to get your point across you need to do it the right way and I just think that walking around dressed as a vulva is gross. Hatred is not acceptable speech.'

Poe told WKRN that she is 'all for women's and minority rights', but says women at the marches on Saturday 'are going about doing the right thing the wrong way'.

'We live in a nation that we are blessed that we can actually protest, but not that way,' she said. 'Not that way to that level of indecency; [it] is not acceptable.'

As more her Facebook post went viral this week, Poe wrote a comment on the post saying that she did not want it to be a platform to be a debate.

'Please, this is not going to be used as a platform to hash out your beliefs v. my beliefs. I said my peace [sic],' she wrote. 'I am sorry that you don't agree with my policy. I am certainly willing to live with my decision.'