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LadyPact -> RE: College Students Given Coloring Books & Play Doh to Help ‘Cope’ With Trump’s Victory (11/14/2016 8:24:53 PM)
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RM, I'm going to give your thread some legs.
Until I was doing laundry today, I didn't really have a lot of time to respond to a lot of threads about the election. It wasn't that I didn't *care* or wasn't willing to read things from different sources. I did. Wasn't always sure that I was articulate enough to write anything of my own.
I said on another thread earlier today that I didn't really want either of these candidates in office. I meant it. I did think one of them was the lesser of two evils and people can think what they want about that.
All I can say is, there wasn't any of the idea of disappointment of, "oh, my candidate didn't win". It's not like this is the first time the person I would have preferred to win an election didn't actually make it into office. Everybody has that at one time or another. It wasn't even me saying 'holy crap, this person is going to have horrible economic policies' or whatever that I didn't think was the biggest issue we had going.
Granted, most of what's getting said on threads here and other places are a bunch of personal opinions and various people look at things differently. He's anti-gay, no he's not, he's a racist, no he's not, he had sexual harassment allegations made, it's not important. Whether people think he is those things or isn't those things, it's pretty plain that some of his supporters are. (I'm not saying her supporters are all innocent angles.) There are plenty of threads right here about what people are already doing. Trump has already had to tell his supporters to stop harassing minorities and various other crap. There are people in my own community that are being told that, now that Trump won, they can't wait for them to be deported and their family to die. Some sexual assault victims are having trouble because we elected this guy in particular. Not all of it was get me a tissue kind of stuff.
We just spent a good while in this country of playing the game of 'let half of your neighbors, co-workers, etc show you (whatever 'group' you are) just how much we do actually hate you' and maybe some of the 'yous' have some legitimate reasons to be afraid. There are absolutely people in this country who are afraid of losing their rights, how much of this rhetoric is reflective of what legislation the next four years might bring, and more.
Isn't it you that is always saying that you are losing your rights or don't have any? I'd have to think that would help you identify. What if the most feminist-positive, anti-male hating, het bashing person (in some people's eyes) got elected? That would suck to you, right?
I actually saw the best essay a couple of days ago. Can't re-post it. No permission to link it. Smart message though. (Not advice I'm always smart enough to take on other issues but that doesn't mean I didn't think it was good.) It was basically this:
If this election actually *does* have a reason for you, up close and personal, to be afraid of some of this stuff connected to it; Stop reading thread after thread on the internet about it, stop watching the damn news channels for a while, process your fear, anger, frustration, whatever, but don't keep adding more so that it's actually detrimental to you. That's really not supposed to be a bad thing.
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