Because I am female, many people are appalled when I tell them that I did not support the Women’s March that took place subsequent to Donald Trump’s inauguration. Facetiously, they ask if I support male supremacy. As much as the majority of other females, I contend that, in an ideal world, both genders would be treated identically. However, the world is not ideal, and the Women’s March was not centered around women’s rights.
Instead of protesting for equal pay or raising awareness for global gender discrimination, the Women’s March was an anti-Trump rally in disguise. Would the march have transpired if Clinton won the election? Of course not. By claiming “Trump is not MY president,” women at the rally not only expressed their fallacious beliefs that Donald Trump’s election would somehow strip them of their rights, but also demonstrated their disapproval of the component that has allowed America to prosper throughout its existence – democracy. Trump was elected through the same system as were each of our other presidents, yet women (and men) at the march acted as though they can deny that he now presides over the United States. Although people have the constitutional right to speak out against Trump, claiming he is not their president is, ironically, repudiating democracy.
Furthermore, by erroneously dubbing an anti-Trump rally the “Women’s March,” dissatisfied people created the illusion that their beliefs mirror those of every other woman. As a female who did not support the event, I do not want to be associated with their actions simply as a result of my gender. Though I still would not have agreed with their intentions even if they had verbalized their true purpose, I would have respected the protesters more.
Lastly, in 2017, American women are nearly equal to their male counterparts. While a wage gap does exist in the United States, women in other nations are barred from driving, voting, dressing as they please, and receiving an education. The fact that women in the United States feel the need to rally as a result of their “inequality”, while girls in Pakistan are being attacked for attempting to attend school is downright deplorable and reinforces the fact that the Women’s March was not truly a women’s march.
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