Why I Feel Like Quitting America Today

Yesterday was International Day of the Girl Child, and it passed by us largely unnoticed. In fact, if it weren’t for my cousin Karli Sue posting this on Facebook, I wouldn’t have remembered this year.

For more on Karli Sue’s nonprofit, One Love Worldwide, bringing water to the thirsty, see here

America, I forgot. I forgot a day created specifically to celebrate being FEMALE. I forgot because I was too busy being inundated with

This kind of crap:

This headline:

Conservative Christian pastor: It’s better for a president to grab a vagina than to have one

This realization:

No matter where along the journey towards gender equality you may think we are in this country, if Donald Trump’s opponent was born and continued to identify as a white male, we wouldn’t be having the discussion we’re having right now. And it has not one thing to do with fitness to lead the country.

It has to do with reproductive organs.

Because I really believe that any man…

ANY ONE AT ALL…

Who was running with Hillary Clinton’s SPECIFIC flaws and strengths —

The political equivalent of HILLARY in every way, but born white with a dick —

Donald Trump wouldn’t be in any position to strike fear into the hearts of Americans, because he would have no support.

The pastor above cites religion as his reason, but the same logic applies to all the people who have heard Trump’s derogatory rant who responded with,

It was just boys being boys

or

It was just locker room banter

WE ARE IN THIS POSITION AS A NATION BECAUSE WE ARE STILL THAT GOD DAMNED FAR AWAY FROM COLLECTIVELY BELIEVING THAT GIRLS AND WOMEN ARE PEOPLE, TOO.

And I knew it to an extent, just from being female. But it hadn’t hit me until I realized that there are a lot —

A LOT

of people who will put up with ANYTHING Trump does JUST to avoid electing a woman president.

ANYTHING HE DOES. SO THEY AREN’T BEING LED BY A GIRL.

Has anything made you as ashamed to be an American as that?

Me, NEITHER.