Trump.

I read an extremely concerning statistic earlier, 52% of women, voted for Trump. 52% of women voted to give one of the world’s most powerful positions to a man who does not care for or respect them or their rights. There is a huge list of things that are frightening about Trump being President but for me, as a woman, with two daughters, it is his attitude towards women which I find most terrifying. This is more than just the fact that the POTUS has been RECORDED as saying he just “grabs them by the pussy” it’s so much more than that. It’s that with his words, his policies, the treatment of his wife and daughter, his aggressive, hostile and disrespectful attitude towards the female gender just seeps from his every pore.

One of Trumps policy platforms was an end to the funding of Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood already gets a rough ride in America, it is an institution which provides birth control and terminations to women, basically its Marie Stopes USA. It’s something which stopped back alley abortions that led desperate women to risk their own lives rather than be barbarically forced to continue a pregnancy they didn’t want. Thanks to Trump, it’s now seriously at risk. Thanks to Trump, the rights of a woman’s body now lie in the hands of a man. It’s the 50s again and women are at the back of the queue. Ending Planned Parenthood means women no longer have a safe space to discuss avoiding pregnancy aswell.

On Election Day, Trump was pictured LOOKING DIRECTLY at his wife’s ballot paper. The act and right to vote, which women fought and died for, which should be a private moment, Trump invaded that right, he stomped all over it by thinking he had the right to monitor his wife’s actions (and the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, his son Eric was pictured exhibiting the same behaviour towards his wife also)

Then there is Trumps derogatory and violent stance on women’s bodies, bodies which Mr Trump feels entitled to grab, simply because of his wealth. He defended Mike Tyson after his arrest and sentencing for rape, declaring that Tyson should be freed. He has stated that women are essentially aesthetically pleasing objects. You hear that ladies, your brain is unimportant, as is your successes and achievements, you are only good for looking pretty! (Something further proven by the fact that until 2015, Trump owned Miss USA pageants, where he could work in on women changing because he “owned” them)

His belief that sexual assault in the military is inevitable because “what did you expect when you put men and women together”, not rape Donald, we didn’t expect rape, why would a woman ever expect that? Or that Angelina Jolie can’t be attractive because she’s dated too many men, oh look, it’s that age old contradiction of promiscuity, women are sluts but men are to be celebrated for the same behaviour. It’s all cool though for The Donald, provided you have a “young hot piece of ass” by your side, so let’s all stand and congratulate Melania Trump, his wife, on being Trumps trophy wife, his young hot piece of ass, we look forward to your contribution as First Young Hot Piece of Ass of the USA.

Trump has a creepy approach to daughter Ivanka, making comments about her “best body” and how if she weren’t his daughter, she’d be his date. Which is literally 100% creepy and 100% making my skin crawl.

& then of course, his treatment of opponent Hilary, in a since deleted tweet Trump asked, how Hilary could possibly satisfy America if she can’t satisfy her husband, do you hear that scorned women of America, has your husband cheated? Left you? Donald wants you to know that you are to blame for not handing out sex on a plate at every possible chance!

But by far, the most concerning part of his 52% female vote is this, two days before his second presidential debate that infamous recording came out, where Trump claimed he could “grab women by the pussy” because he’s “a star” so he can “do anything” . Its sexual assault, its vulgar and disgusting, sexist and forced Donald to do something unprecedented for him, apologise. But it his apology is full of hot air, because Trump has a catalogue of disrespect and sexism towards women, a history of basing a women’s worth purely on her looks and a “boys club” attitude towards a woman’s place  in society, because besides your vote, Donald doesn’t care for you at all.

There are literally thousands of other reasons why Trumps new position is incredibly frightening, his ideology that peace is achieved through strength, his determination to start war with China, his infamous wall and one of his most terrifying polices; his plan to reduce Government, therein reducing the amount of people who can stop and argue against his insanity.

So women of America who gave your vote to Trump, I hope you saw something in him that the rest of us don’t, because you just set fire to the legacy of the Women before you who fought for equality and for their voices to be heard and respected.