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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