I feel it too.
I feel the eyes on me as I walk down the street, even when I'm wearing sweatpants. I feel the disgrace of having your voice shut down because you are "overreacting". I feel the toils of being a woman in 2016 America. I feel the burden of being a woman on this earth.
Yes, Donald Trump won the presidency. He won the electoral college fair and square, the way the electoral college is supposed to be won. A lot of us had hope in Hillary, to bring us up, to carry us through to this next year. We all know 2016 has made us face hardships. With Planned Parenthood being attacked, millions of women not getting access to birth control and feminine care. We fought for the right to love who we want to love, and to try to get a leg up and close the wage gap.
Now we feel that we have lost.
Hate crimes have broken out all over the United States, against women, against minorities, against humanity. So we feel that we have lost.
We still have our sisters, our mothers, our daughters, aunts and grandmothers. We still have each other to lean upon. Modern feminists are regarded as they just belittle men, that we seek to destroy the patriarchy all together. This is not the case. We as women will join together upon this call to action that America has made us face. We as women will make bonds with each other and not let each other drift apart. We will take this President with a grain of salt as we move forward as we as a mass are stronger than one man.
This is not the end of the American woman.
This is the beginning of an era where we can stand together and not fight, not harm, but speak out together, and carry the weight of the world. We are strong, heck, babies come out of us, mother nature visits us every month and brings pain and suffering. Nothing can tear us down when we try.
So don't attack your fellow americans because of who they voted for, or try to force them on to your side. But don't ever let anyone bring you down for speaking your mind. Your mind is your body, and your body is your mind. You have control of your future, just like I have control of mine. So don't explain to your daughters that this is the end.
This may be the present, but it isn't the future.
