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Comment: 53% of women say the feeling is mutual. It's so nice we all agree for once.
After all this talk of allyship, you didn't show up to the polls to push back against the openly racist, xenophobic, misogynistic now-President-elect Donald Trump.
Comment: They did, they just showed up to push back against you, who obviously have had your right to speak for them summarily revoked.
The exit polls from the Nov. 8 election show that 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump, compared to only 43 percent for Hillary Clinton. It appears many white women are not moved by Trump's sexism, and instead would rather applaud the candidate for his lack of political correctness.
Comment: Yes - because we don't live in Maoist China you insipid ideologue.
After all the supposed progress we've made, painstakingly trying to change a white feminist movement into an intersectional one (and for that we have only the hard work of women of color to thank), white women didn't show up to fight back against a man whose rhetoric and policies directly attack women of color, immigrant women, Muslim women, LGBTQ women and more.
Comment: It's amazing that Trump's critics don't see it: whatever negative biases or views Trump may or may not have, when it comes down to it, he is practical. If he thinks someone can do the job, he will hire them, whether they're female, gay, black, brown, or whatever else. He doesn't hold such things against people, and he doesn't let things like race, gender, or sexual orientation determine the role those people will play in his business. Perhaps he will take the same approach with the country as a whole?
Anti-Trumpers are horrified to see displays of racism in Trump's wake, saying such things as "I don't want this to be my country." Newsflash, this is your country, and it has always been like that - you just didn't see it. Trump (and the media) have brought that to the surface. As the most publicly powerful person in the country, Trump wields an enormous amount of influence and responsibility. He therefore has a choice. He can either exacerbate whatever hateful biases some of his supporters have, or he can model a better way.
For a country that has yet to realize the ideal of seeing other groups simply as human beings, Trump's 'business' approach can be a good thing. It may not be a utopian ideal, but it is better than the status quo. It may even provide a model to deflate racial biases, along the lines of this piece by Scott Adams, by "pacing and leading": How to unhypnotize a Killary supporter: A step-by-step guide. Whether that happens remains to be seen, of course, but assuming the worst case scenario is just that: an assumption.