There, I said it. Misogyny Elected Trump.
I’m not saying this because Hilary lost to a man. I’m not saying this because everyone who has been president has been a man. Although these facts certainly speak for themselves.
I’m saying it because a man has been recorded on tape boasting about his prowess as a sexual predator against women, and this was not enough to prevent his election to the presidency.
He’s a sexual predator, and he’s proud of it. And to millions, it is not enough to keep him from being president.
And you know, deep in your hearts, that there were millions of men, pulling that lever, tapping that screen, tracing that line on the paper ballot, thinking, “Yeah, I’m not lettin’ no bitch run the government.”
Yes, there were women too, marking that ballot for the predator. Deluded creatures, Bible-addled, self-loathing types. Women who think it’s okay that boys will be boys.
Women so addicted to attention from men that they are flattered at catcalls. Women who go back to the abusive boyfriend. Women who accept woman’s second class citizen status as the Will of God. Be submissive. Be silent. I know. I grew up among them.
Women can be just as misogynistic as men.
I will close with an excerpt of a speech made by Shirley Chisolm, an African-American U.S. Representative from New York on the floor of the House of Representatives on May 21, 1969:
"As a black person, I am no stranger to race prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far oftener discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.
Prejudice against blacks is becoming unacceptable although it will take years to eliminate it. But it is doomed because, slowly, white America is beginning to admit that it exists. Prejudice against women is still acceptable. There is very little understanding yet of the immorality involved in double pay scales and the classification of most of the better jobs as “for men only.”"