White Women Voted for Trump

Hi All,

I am new here. Thank you Logan for giving me a space to be cranky on the internet. 

Here is my first post...

You may have seen that sign from the women’s march floating around, the one that says, “Remember, white women voted for trump.” When I first saw that image, it stung. It felt like a betrayal, to see someone is a crowd of women in the women’s march in what I perceived as an attack on her fellow protestors. I didn’t see the point in coming to a place of solidarity and accusing a large group of people of being part of the problem.

This kind of reaction to a sign is dangerous and wrong, and let me tell you why.

One of my favorite past times is to talk about how garbage and disgusting men are. They constantly objectify us (and sexualize really anything), they are dumb, they can’t seem to conceive of what sex is like outside of porn. These are complaints I love to bitch about. But here is the thing – there are some good men out there. And the men I associate with, they know that. They know that I am not talking about them, because they are not part of the problem.

You see where I am going with this? Maybe you didn’t vote for Trump, but maybe also consider that that isn’t enough. The fact of the matter is, white women did vote for trump, in overwhelming numbers. My own mother did, in fact! We cannot escape that fact. We have to acknowledge that unpleasant bit of information, and realize that to many, feminism still means white feminism. If you think that a black woman drawing attention to the problem of white women voting for Trump is divisive, then it may be worthwhile to step back and evaluate why you feel that way. You may, in fact, be part of the problem.

I have read many accounts on Facebook from the perspective of trans women and POC stating that they felt overlooked (to be an understatement) and looked down upon by smug white women at the marches. We need to listen to these stories, and internalize that we need to be better.

We need to rise up to anything that is a threat to ALL women, not just what affects us personally.