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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm 16. On Nov. 6 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft.
On the morning after the election, I walked up the staircase of my school. A preteen was crying into the shoulders of her braces-clad peer. Her friend was rubbing circles on her back.
I continued up the stairs to the lounge, where upperclassmen linger before classes. There I saw two tables: One was filled with my girlfriends, many of them with hollows under their eyes. There was a blanket of despair over the young women in the room. I looked over to the other table of teenage boys and saw Minecraft on their computers. While we were gasping for a breath, it seemed they were breathing freely.
We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman. Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to cross the street to avoid will be addressed as Mr. President. Where the body I havent fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday.
What made my skin burn most wasnt that over 75 million people voted for Donald Trump. It was that this election didnt seem to measurably change anything for the boys around me, whether their parents supported Mr. Trump or not. Many of them didnt seem to share our rage, our fear, our despair. We dont even share the same future.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion/donald-trump-women-girls.html
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Excellent read! Highly recommend!!
Explains why women are so angry at men, because this experience was EVERY AGE GROUP!!!
Not just teens.
hlthe2b
(106,359 posts)But, let's just say it might save their lives one day (and any man who encountered a woman armed with such knowledge damned well better treat her with the respect she deserves).