To preface this article, I am just your average college student who tries to stay politically informed but is also balancing a thousand other things on my plate. However, this election season it has been hard to stay uninformed on the bigotry that can be summed up simply by calling it the "Trump campaign." Just when we thought it couldn't get worse … it did. When Trump called, or rather reiterated someone's sentiment that Ted Cruz is a p**** because he is anti-waterboarding.
As intelligent human beings we can understand that Trump isn't talking about vaginas. He's talking about the people who have them: women.
"The message Trump sent is loud and clear: I’m a real man, Ted Cruz is like a woman, and being like a woman is undesirable, weak, pathetic and bad."-Jill Filipovic
As I began my research into this topic, I started to slowly realize that I was way too liberal to come up with any real defense for Trump or Cruz. So here is a list of more accurate things Trump could have called Cruz.
1. Valedictorian
Of his high school class.
2. Princeton & Harvard Law Graduate
He's got brains, people.
3. A Father
I can get on board with that. Dads are cool.
4. Paranoid
He legitimately thinks the UN is trying to destroy golf courses. Oh no, where did those brains go?
5. Homophobic
He vowed to stop gay marriage, but not just that. He even went as far as to introduce a constitutional amendment to prevent the federal government or the courts from attacking or striking down state marriage laws.
6. Patriarchal
He was one of eight senators to vote against the Violence Against Women Act. Is there anything else to even say here?
I could go on, but I think I've made my point well enough: If you're going to call someone something, at least be accurate.
