Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Women, Take Today Off

 
You, like me, are aghast. You don’t know what to say, how to act, how to feel. You had no idea that you needed to even prepare yourself for something like this, so in addition to feeling gutted, you feel like you’ve had the wind knocked out of you. There is a grand injustice in the fact that today, after knowing we as a nation elected Donald Trump as our president, we as women — people who are hated and demeaned so continually in this country — must show up to our jobs and pretend like nothing has happened. We are being asked to pretend like this decision — one that millions of people, including an incomprehensible number of white women, made in good faith — is not a direct assault on our well-being.

Women, if you are in a position to do so: take today off.

It’s a small protest, but it’s a start. Much of this election has centered on women’s roles in the working world. Should we be free from sexual harassment at our jobs? Should we receive equal pay and equal respect? Can we aspire to lead the free world? One way we can respond, now, is to refuse to participate in a nation and economy that does not value our personhood, nor the personhood of anyone who doesn’t identify as a white male. It’s a small protest, but it’s a start. 

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Source: NYMag.com

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