Major Thorns In Trump's Side
Haley and Carroll
The New York Times has an article today titled, “The Looming Contest Between Two Presidents and Two Americas.” Fasten your seatbelts! It really does feel like two Americas, sadly.
And it feels like two worlds in the world of feminism right now. This is a very interesting article today, also from the NYTimes, titled “Barbie is bad. There, I said it.” I agree with everything Pamela Paul puts forth here, I wish I had written the piece. I feel like feminists are split—certainly not the first time. I read a wonderful quote years ago, and cannot recall who said it and can’t find it on the internet….so help me if you know. It was either bell hooks or Audre Lorde. But the idea from the quote was that “there are many feminisms.” She meant it in a good way, that we should try to understand each other’s experience and that we may not all agree on the same approach to what’s right for women. There are many feminisms. And this I do recall, bell hooks said, “Feminism is for everybody.” It’s true, we all want the same equal rights for women. Here is an older drawing of mine sort of on this topic.
Nikki Haley is staying in the race for President, even though many think she has no chance of winning the GOP nomination. But you never know—Trump could start losing it more, or he could be convicted, which would certainly change things (even though his supporters say they will still vote for him; I bet many of them won’t). Her presence in the race is good, as I see it. She will be a constant thorn in his side, and we know how he hates women, particularly strong women like Haley. She already got under his skin several times since New Hampshire. Another strong woman, E. Jean Carroll is also a major thorn in Trump’s side; he took the stand today in her defamation trail against him in Manhattan. I just love that these two women are tenatious—and right— in their efforts to strip Trump of his facade and expose him for the fraud that he is. He can’t stand it.
Another older cartoon, below. I believe it’s from 2016. Can you believe we are still dealing with this horrible man?
Thanks for being here, happy Thursday! I am traveling to LA for my stepmother’s 90th birthay, but I will see you tomorrow.
Let’s add Roberta Kaplan, E. Jean Carroll’s lead lawyer, to the women toppling Trump.
I love the two feminism-related cartoons. I like to think of myself as a feminist, or at least an egalitarian, but my female co-founder of two anti-racist charitable orgs keeps calling me out for having a lot of old school white maleism. This is going to sound horrible, but it's not because I think being white or being male makes me superior, but that being ME make me superior, including superior to most other white males. I don't go strutting around (unlike Trump) but I tend to trust my own opinions because if I don't have good cause to trust them, their not my opinions, just thoughts, sometimes under-informed thoughts. I think a significant proportion of people of all kinds feel this way about themselves, but that's not a reliable sign that they're (or I'm) right about it. What IS a sign is the humility to say when you don't know, or aren't sure; another sign is to be able to back up your opinions with decent reasons -- these characteristics being very non-Trumpian, but possessed by a lot of women and people of color, and hell, even some white males. If you now feel like throwing a cream pie in my face, please make it chocolate cream pie, so we both get something out of it.