First we need to define a Misogynist. The text book definition is: “a person who hates, dislikes, mistrusts, or mistreats women”. I agree with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in her speech concerning Tony Abbot in October 2012. In this speech she added words “entrenched prejudice of women” to the definition of the word to fit in today’s treatment of women by some men. The urban dictionary defines Misogynist as “Misogynists hate and discriminate against women, but they still like f***** them.” Basically saying a woman is only here for one reason alone, sexual gratification for men. And Trump is a Misogynist, so are half of his cabinet selections. For example Sen Jeff Sessions in response to the GOP nominee, if Trump actually did “grab the woman by the p*****” then “I don’t characterize that as sexual assault”. Yet, with all of this, you voted for Trump and his misogynist buddies anyway.
Unlike so many others, Trump supporters have stayed mostly silent on this behavior. Sure, some Republican Senators and Congressmen have spoken up, but clearly not enough as to remove him as the Republican nominee. They didn’t have the spine to do that. And in not doing that, here is what you have brought onto your wife, daughter, sister, mother and all women in this country, you have brought forth fear, fear that they too can be accosted by men who believe it is their right to treat women this way. And should it happen to them, will they report it? Maybe not, if that man is their employer, if that man is a man in a position of power, a man with money, they will fear to report it, they will fear the consequences should that man, in a position of power, retaliate, retaliate against her or her family. So Trump supporters, this is yours to own, this is yours fix. And to the Trump woman voters, if this happens to you please don’t complain to the police or try to prosecute under our laws if you can’t hold Trump to the same standards. And to the Trump male voters, same thing. And, oh yeah, don’t behave like the abuser Trump is.
Trump supporters have acknowledge and tactfully approved this behavior by casting a vote for Trump. And in doing so each of you have taught the country, your community, your family, your son, your daughter a terrible lesson. You have taught the country that is okay to Impeach Bill Clinton for a consensual oral affair, which by the way, under the law is NOT “sexual relations” but is okay to have President that can grab women at will for their own pleasure. You have taught your community you are hypocrite by saying one thing about one party, but support the same in your own party. You have taught your son that, if the President can “grab her by the …”, so can he, regardless of what you say. You have taught your daughter that she is chattel, her worth is based on her looks, her appeal to men. Men like Trump. Do not think for even a minute that you can speak to them so they learn that this is wrong. Your child watches your actions and behaviors and learns from that more than your words.
Trump evangelical voters have stayed silent on this behavior or worst yet, have said, well we disagree but we’ll vote for him anyway because HRC mishandled emails. On the email point, for that email to get to her server, someone had to send it to her, and those are the people that should be investigated if that email contained sensitive information. But back to the point on evangelical voters, one word sums it up – sinners, yes sinners. It is a sin, in your religion, to “covet your neighbor’s wife, property, etc” but you covet the power of the presidency to install a pseudo theocracy that aligns with beliefs, and impost those same believes on others. And you have completely abandoned the concept of “love your neighbor as yourself”. This is your sin, yours alone.
Trump supporters knew about his pending case by a woman who, 13 years old at the time, “alleged that he and Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her at a series of sex parties that Epstein threw in 1994”. This woman, now in her mid-thirties withdrew her lawsuit due to death threats. I have read many articles, some of the legal filing on scribd.com, and there is enough there to give this woman the benefit of the doubt and allow the case to proceed. Plus there are many other women who have spoken out for how Trump treated them, grabbing them, forcing himself of them. Or how Trump walked in, into the changing room of teenage beauty contestants. This shows all of us the type of man Trump is. So shame on those that threaten this woman. Shame on all of you for not allowing the courts, our legal system, to decide the merits of the case. She was 13 years old at the time, and studies show that young women are ashamed, afraid, to report such things at that time for the same reasons I have stated above. Studies show it takes years, even decades for the violated individual to report it, confront their abuser, and get the therapy they need as a result of this abuse.. Each and every one of you should have stood by this woman, you did not. You threw her under the bus.
As I have said, this “Trumpism” is a disease. It is everything that we, as a society should work to abolish. And validating Trumps misogynistic ways will haunt our society long after he is out of office. It will haunt generations of women, the generations of women in their teens, twenties, thirties that have seen so much progress over the last four decades, and with one administration put us right back to the starting point of woman’s liberation movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s or maybe even the woman’s suffrage movement of the early 1900’s were women obtained the right to vote in 1920. And this is sad, for I know so many women in the workforce that bring so much to the table with their skills and abilities. And I know so many women in the world at large that bring so much to their community, and to the lives around them. It is sad because it is not too hard to imagine that these same women will not be treated as equal in our society under “Trumpism”. It is for these women I will not stay silent.