Stand together for our daughters' future

Donald Trump won for only one reason, cultural misogyny. This doesn’t mean that everyone who voted for him is a jerk or white supremacist, but that the culture they were raised in has ingrained in them a basic belief that a woman is always inferior.

Conservative religious leaders are guilty of promoting misogyny. They believe and preach that God doesn’t love women like he loves men. They refer to God as a “he” even though that is clearly absurd. God is too big to have a gender. Religious leaders pull on a tiny loincloth of a few scriptures and Jesus’ sex to dish out poison to the women in their congregation.

Trump promotes this hatred, like when he immediately blamed the woman pilot in the DC crash as a DEI hire. Assuming she could never have earned her spot, the military just handed her the keys to a black hawk helicopter.

And we women have lapped up the poison. Women, do you place looks and femininity over smarts and hard work? Is a man a leader and a woman aggressive for doing the same thing? Are other women competitors or sisters. Until we women reject this poison our daughters face a bleak future of powerlessness and abuse.

So, what can we do? Stop being involved with jerks. Seriously girl he will never have your back. Stand up to your religious leaders and point out their hypocrisy. Stand together sisters not apart, for the future of our daughters.  

MARY HALEY

Sandpoint