While it is difficult for me to fathom why anyone still supports Trump, seeing women do so is downright astonishing and more than a little repulsive. Men are feckless creatures. It's in their biology and in their culture and upbringing and it doesn't matter much what culture it is. But women are naturally more contemplative.
When Roberta Kaplan, the Harvard educated lawyer who represented E. Jean Carroll, described some of her meetings with Trump this week, I wasn't surprised that he behaved badly to the point of throwing things, but I was at first a little puzzled about some of the verbal exchanges. I am somewhat embarrassed to say that "See you next Tuesday," did not resonate with me initially. I admit that the word this phrase represents is not one that is normally in my vocabulary, but it clearly is in Trump's.
I am a feminist. I am not a shrinking violet and I have been known to use salty language even in inappropriate situations, but I have never in my life called a woman a "cunt", "pussy", or "chick", or any of the other crude or rude and demeaning words that predominate in some men's discourse, nor did I allow any of my three sons to do so. That a candidate for the highest elected office in the country does so says far more about him than his imagination can grasp.
It also says a great deal about the people, male and female, who cheer him on for uttering language that demeans, abuses, and insults all women everywhere. I had to listen to The Deadly Nightshade to rid my head of Trump's abuse.
I actually had to ask Google what was the significance of Trump's comment. So childish, tiresome, and cowardly. He's like a bad joke that won't go away.
ReplyDeleteAs an Anthropology major I was required to take a departmental linguistics class. At the first class meeting, the professor proceeded to say the f word, which in 1969 was still a highly forbidden word, over 25 times...to point out it was just a group of sounds. So when I see these words, which is rare, they have no power, only a definition which defines the user and society's misogyny.