Teen Girls, Body Image, and Donald Trump

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1. No one should pay any attention

to anything that Trump says, unless they want to make fun of it. He has room to talk about any one's looks. He's such a beauty himself with his orange face and his ridiculous dyed combover. Double ugh.

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2. Great video. Very important point.

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3. No filter on his mouth for certain.

Bad roll model without a doubt.

The topic of who we were voting for came up the other day in a social gathering. There were young and old, but all white. One young single lady said she's supporting Trump. One of the guys standing next to her had to question how she can reconcile voting for someone that views women with such disdain, she giggled nervously and said "I don't know. I like Trump."

She has psalm post-it messages all around her desk where she works. She must be indoctrinated. Sad, but that's what we're up against when trying to win the minds of some people.

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4. Not a day goes by when Trump fails to say something offensive about someone

Trump is a racist, an sectarian bigot and a misogynist. On one occasion he ridiculed a disabled man. If he's said anything homophobic then I've missed it. Perhaps it's an oversight on his part, or maybe it is the one thing that makes him preferable to Ted Cruz.

Trump's misogyny is on full display here. A woman, he says, should be tall, slim but not skinny or "flat chested." Trump has been married three times; all three of his wives have been young blondes. Based on that, I haven't figured out what he has against Megyn Kelly, other than she's older than she looks wearing her TV make up and is about six inches shorter than Trump's ideal woman.

It's one thing for Trump to have an ideal woman. It's quite another for him to believe that his ideal woman is the only possible ideal woman. It isn't fair to other men (I have an ideal image of a woman that differs from his) and it certainly isn't fair to those women in the world who are not tall, slim, young blondes.

I empathize with the young ladies in this video. One of the pressures young women face in an age of mass communication is to be an ideal woman when mass media presents a very concrete image of an ideal woman, especially in her physical features. That, of course, is unfair to young ladies who could never possibly meet those standards, but may possess wit, charm and intelligence, which are things that make a woman attractive to, among others, your most humble hare.

I empathize with young ladies who are caught in a world not of their making trying to conform to an image that really isn't one they could ever hope to conform. When I was in high school, I couldn't conform to the image an attractive man. I'm short. That certainly wasn't a deliberate choice of mine, although I felt like it was something for which I was blamed. I couldn't buy a date. When I was about 17 and talking about myself one day, I actually described myself as "deformed." How's that for low self-esteem? I usually got high marks in PE, yet I was "deformed." Needless to day that I've spent my adult life in and out of therapy for depression.

I really, really hate Donald Trump. It's personal, even if I don't know the man. He's a bully, which to me is the lowest form of human being. Yet he thinks he's so great. He's been married three times and has treated every one of his wives as an accessory. When one get old, he discards her gets a younger one. That's a shallow man, not a great one.

Let us pay him no attention. He isn't worth it.