Trump Adviser’s Slur Is a Sign of Things to Come

Whenever I debate with myself whether it's the religious bigotry or the overt racism of the Trump movement that shocks and disgusts me the most, I recall the extreme misogyny, and give up trying to put a taxonomy on evil.

The history of the world is replete with men seeking to keep women "in their place." Hopefully by next week we will all see that our place is in the Oval Office as POTUS and not just as an appendage to a man.

I never heard the disgusting slurs emanating from Trump and his supporters either in locker rooms or during four years in the U.S. Navy. Trump needs to have his mouth washed out with soap and be sent into a permanent time-out after election Day.

Every time a male Trump supporter publicly uses language like that against Mrs. Clinton, it makes a few more women more inclined to vote for her.

It was less than 100 years ago that women got the right to vote in this country. The suffragettes went through hell for it too -- arrested on trumped up charges because they picketed the White House, they were sent to a prison in Occoquan, Virginia (which is to this day a rural area) and when they went on hunger strikes for their cause, they were force fed raw eggs through their noses.

I'm sure there are still American men today who think women should not have gotten the right to vote. Misogyny is passed on from generation to generation, but with a woman president, I hope it eventually will die out.

As Eleanor Roosevelt famously said: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Most women understand this, but apparently Trump's supporters don't because they have let him make them feel as though they are inferior.

Unfortunately it is people like Hillary who have to endure this sort of treatment that remind me that I have a thick skin, I am proud, and I will speak up when insulted.

Trump and his language insulting women and others, his boasts about sexual assaults, and his behaviors of stalking, mocking, and shaming have emboldened his followers. This rises to the level of hate speech, and violence has been threatened (Second Amendment, threats at rallies against Hillary Clinton). Trump's supporters are proud to brandish signs and bumper stickers with graphic language that cannot be explained to children.

The pioneer faces the deepest challenges. Yes, there are echoes of what almost all women have experienced at one time or another including insults and sexual assaults. Susan B. Anthony found herself in mobs of men with pistols and knives; she was hung in effigy and called names. But she persevered.

Hillary Clinton has met her enemies stoically and with courage and grit. She is a trailblazer that will make the path easier for the next women who aspire to the presidency or other senior positions. Trump on the other hand is an anachronism, a dinosaur with outdated ideas about women as sexual property and admiring silent trophies, someone who believes as a billionaire that he is some kind of feudal lord who gets his way, can do what he likes, and can ignores laws, convention and civility as he demagogues. The fate of the dinosaurs was extinction.

This has to be the most disgraceful and disgusting example of the GOPs' desire to win the race to the bottom.

Beginning late next January, there will be a new way to address Hillary Rodham Clinton. When she is Madame President, that won't replace or even change the slurs that will continue to emanate from the mouths and pens of angry imbeciles. But it will signal a change in the landscape, especially for girls and young women who aspire to live beyond the boundaries prescribed for them by ignorant people of both genders.

If women are going to be "hurt" by a nasty word they deserve to be mocked. Stand up and fight for what you believe in. Your feelings are hurt? Tough. Women around the world are fighting off rape and sex slavery. Is Hillary going to shrink into her hidey hole when Putin tells her to shut up and sit down?

Apparently, none of these boys listened to their mother, then or now.

This is nonsense. Slurs and smears against a particular woman have no connection about attitude towards all women. Face it liberals, some women and some men have such bad character traits or disgusting behavior that naturally invites slurs and smears. They are directed at the inviduals, and not their identity.

You say Trump is against women because he has demeaned some women? If he demeans as many or even more men in his life, then he certainly si not against women. Either he is impolite or has encountered enough sleazy characters in his life that selecting those partucilar ones for scorn makes perfect sense. I am sure the liberal do the same.

Articles such as this have no basis in reality; they display pure partisam politics and add nothing to the understanding of nations's politics or its character.

I don't see this as a thing that is new.
Democrats use the same word when they feel it is justified.
I use it sometimes.
I don't think it applies to Hillary Clinton.
I don't believe she has done anything that using these words justify
I would say these things if I thought she did something terribly wrong and I think this writer would do the same.

Oppressed people have put up with worse, and we have plenty of exemplars from centuries of Civil Rights development to remind us to Rise Above and Stay Above. So, Bring It, if you must.

This is appalling.

I’m sorry but where was all the “female” support for Hillary over the last 12 months?
While Trump was on his anti- woman rampage where was the female support?

In the Republican debates Trump said of the lone female Republican “Look at that face”.

We women have stood shell shocked as Trump verbally (and physically) walked all over us.

Now, with 6 days to the election, Woman want to stand with Hillary?
Sorry too little too late.

Worst of all are all of the women who find this perfectly acceptable. I could weep, because until this election I thought my girls were living in better times. In some ways, yes, they are, but it is frightening how many men have a seething hatred of women. The internet has become a sewer.

This campaign has sunk to a low I never imagined, making me turn away in dusgust from even the good news. I hope you are wrong, Anna North, and that we can move on from here to something more positive and women-friendly -- especially if we (hopefully) have our first woman president!

Next step: Any criticism of Hillary, no matter how polite, will be called sexist. Just like President Obama, where all criticism, no matter how polite, substantive and thought out, is deemed racist.

I never understood the immediate anger, hatred, and resentment aimed at President Obama. Now Hillary Clinton is facing it as well. Yes, the specific slurs have changed, but the vehemence behind it has not.

If we learned anything these last eight years about the Grand Old Phallus caucus, their psychopathology never fails them.

Bereft and bankrupt of sustainable ideas, the Republican Party passenger plane appears to function almost exclusively on the jet fuel of spite, anger, animosity, antipathy and ill will toward others.

Republicans spent eight years perpetuating the Hateful Birther Lie....because, as Lyndon Johnson said 50-plus years ago about Trump Trash Nation..."I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

That's your Republican Party, America, happy to hate for a living and tear the nation apart with a hate-filled heart.

And now insult is added to injury in the endless 'humiliation' of the angry white Confederate male as Hillary Clinton has outsmarted the worst generation of Republicans offered to the nation during this year's GOP Clown Car show, with the last Apprentice contestant still stumbling incoherently, ragefully and idiotically on the Presidential stage as respectable Americans gasp in horror at the Trumpian Creature From the Black Lagoon of White Male Spite.

Republicanism is no longer a political party.

It's merely a Grand Old Psychopathology worthy of inclusion in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Hillary has publicly borne the "slings and arrows" of America's ingrained misogyny for over 25 years. How she has had the fortitude to endure it all is beyond my comprehension, but I am grateful that she has. She is bearing us on her back towards that glass ceiling. Hopefully she will shatter it at last. It won't end the struggle, and the boys in the locker room won't like it, but she will have done it.

Thank you. Why this type of hate speech is so commonplace and tolerated in our society, while we at least have gotten to a place where a majority of us agree to reject other forms of hateful speech, is beyond me. It sometimes seems like women are the only group that's not entitled to any dignity, unless it's dignity dictated on others' terms (Ryan's "women are to be championed and revered" line comes to mind).

The denigration of women by the GOP and right is no secret.

Their thinking--why take a human being seriously if you can reduce HER to a thing.

This is an election of change--no longer will angry white males get to call the shots--the results--they advocate violence against women.

No big surprise here.