I woke up this morning and saw that the Internet was buzzing with yet another one of your tweets, Mr. President. Like most other times, I scrolled the interwebs trying to ignore the latest filth you’d spewed. There were more important things I needed to focus on then give into the attention seeking tantrum of a manchild.
Contrary to what your enablers tell you, there’s not a shred of charm, grace, honesty or dignity in you. But despite your repulsive, disgusting, bigoted, misogynistic, hideously petty and racist tendencies, you need to be called out on your recent diatribe.
You see Mr. President, many of us have recognized a pattern all too familiar. A pattern we’ve seen abusive men use over and over again, the gaslighting, the pivoting, the normalization of abuse and the dehumanization of our bodies. The pattern that aims to take away our agency, that tries to berate and minimize us as objects you can displace to salvage your fragile male ego.
As a woman, as a reporter, as someone who has met the likes of you many a times I know how to deal with it — but I shouldn’t have to, and neither should Mika Brzezinski, Caitriona Perry Megan Kelly, Rosie O’ Donnell, Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy, Elizabeth Beck, or Gail Collins; the list is endless. We shouldn’t have to live through the constant dehumanization of our bodies, the objectification, the mocking, the endless barrage of sexism that toxic masculinity breeds.
I understand your frustration comes from not being able to comprehend that us women (cis and trans) have the ability to dismantle the likes of you, that our every existence — unless it exists in glossy magazines and even then — threatens you, that the only way a man as petty as yourself could deal with our agency is by engaging in and perpetuating rape culture.
But you’d be wrong to assume it would stop us from doing our jobs. You see, Mr. President we’ve been abused, mocked, beaten, raped, mutilated and our existence shoved into patriarchal binaries — but we have persevered.
The fact that you hold the highest office in the country gives you immense power, as believers in American exceptionalism will say: You are the most important man in the world, Mr. President. Yet, even the power rush that comes with that office can’t overcome the deep seated insecurities you possess.
I get it, you’re hiding your own insecurities by displacing them onto others — but have no doubt we see you, and to your delusional ego, testosterone-induced frenzy and pathetic self-esteem I say: Fuck you and your toxic masculinity.Â
