I'm 16. On Nov. 5 the Girls Cried, and the Boys Played Minecraft. [View all]

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This election, voters sent many messages, but perhaps one of the most disturbing is to young women that their lives and futures simply don’t matter. This election was all about men and boys and how they needed strong models of masculinity because young white men are being left behind. Girls and women, according to Vance and other Republican candidates, were destined only for motherhood. They should just forget their dreams for careers and economic independence.

“Eight years ago, I was too young to feel the full force of Hillary Clinton’s loss. Now at 16, I’ve had the wind knocked out of me. On Wednesday, I was flush with anger — but it was diluted by an even stronger feeling: defeat. I saw it in the eyes of women in my subway car that morning. I saw it in the barista at the coffee shop on the corner, the female security guard at my school and in the face of my history teacher.

In a terrible way, I’ve never felt more part of a sisterhood or more certain that pain is shared within that family. I wish the consequences of this moment for young women punctured the apparent indifference of so many men and boys I saw that day. I wish they could breathe in what the women and girls I know have been inhaling since Nov. 5.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion/donald-trump-women-girls.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aU4.pF_7.2i0dKLnycjhQ&smid=url-share