On Nov. 6, 2024, Donald Trump was announced as president-elect for 2025. Nov. 6, 2024, I woke up with a pit in my stomach.

I hadn’t even looked at my phone yet, and I knew that my country had failed me. I knew from the stillness in the air, the quiet from the streets, from the headache that was building.

Denying my instincts, I turned my phone on to search for the election results.

The country was red. Trump has over the 270 mark.

AP has called this race.

The pit in my stomach grew.

How in the world could this country fail its daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, grandmothers? How could this country fail half of its population?

This has happened before, back in 2016 when Hillary Clinton ran against Trump. During Clinton’s time running, I wanted her to win purely because she was a woman. While I was less aware of what the government was like, how it was run, and everything else, I was still very saddened to know that she had lost.

People are celebrating the win of a convicted felon. Trump, a well-known businessman before he ran for president for the first time in 2016, has failed businesses all around him. His casinos, hotels, vodkas and wines, and airlines all have gone bankrupt.

Do people who voted for Trump know that Harris served in all three parts of government? Serving as a U.S. Senator, a state prosecutor, and the Vice President, Harris was and is more qualified than Trump will ever be.

The world is laughing at America, and people in the U.S. are celebrating.

The America I grew up in has changed, and it has changed for the worse.

I grew up in an America where people would choose a candidate based on the candidate’s plans, how they spoke, how they acted, how they cared for the American people.

This election proves that as long as the candidate is a woman, these values do not matter.

Kamala Harris’s biggest critique that I have seen, during both her time as Vice President and her campaign, is that she is a woman.

“Women are not for office. They are for making dinner.”

“What if she gets her period and starts a war?”

“Women are too emotional to run a country.”

These are examples of comments I have read in a variety of ways on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms. Both of these comments have come from Democratic and Republican voters.

“I watched an interview with her. She is attractive, animated, and absurd.” This was from Facebook. The source claims it came from Steve Baldwin, a former Congressman of the state of California.

“Joe and the Hoe Gotta Go.” – another slogan that Trump supporters and voters used.

Trump himself said to Fox News, “She’ll be so easy for them [world leaders]. She’ll be like a play toy.”

On top of all of these comments, there is one very popular video made by Nick Fuentes, a famous white supremacist, saying, “Your body, my choice” over and over once the election results were published. This saying can be found in comments on women’s social media, mainly those speaking about the election’s results or other subjects involving the election.

All these comments have made me angry over what this country has turned into.

I only have 18 years of living experience; however, half of those years were spent being sold an America that was welcoming and safe for everyone – no matter a person’s gender, race, religion, or sexual identity.

Now men and even some women are coming out and saying that women are not seen as independent people, that they should stay at home, that they have too many emotions.

Are women truly ‘too emotional’ in the sense that when men express their feelings about a project it is seen as ‘passionate’ or ‘enthusiastic’ but if a woman were to do the same it would be seen as ‘dramatic’ or ‘sensitive’? Are women ‘too emotional’ compared to the men who freak out if you tell them ‘no’ after they ask for a date and decline so they kill an innocent girl?

Samyia Spain is a young girl killed because she told a man ‘no’.

Samyia Spain (19) was with her twin Sanyia Spain and older brother when Veo Kelly (20) asked Samyia for her number. Samyia declined, and the siblings entered a corner store to get away. Kelly had been waiting outside the store with some friends, taunting the girls once they left. Spain’s older brother ended up getting physical with Kelly which caused a fight to happen between the group. During this, both sisters were hurt. Sanyia was slashed in the arm and Samyia was stabbed in the chest.

Unfortunately, Samyia did not survive. She died on March 17th, 2024.

Samyia Spain was hit on by a man, told the man no, and died as a result of the fact Veo Kelly was unable to take her decline.

But women are too emotional?

America’s people have always shown their feelings about women. America likes the idea of a female president, the idea of a woman having a type of authority. In practice, not so much. A very good example of this is the movie 9 To 5, in which the character Violet Newstead, played by Lily Tomlin, has been working at an office longer than her current boss and is the person who is truly running the company by training her boss and giving him ideas. She is blocked to climbing the ladder due to the fact it is the 80s and she is a single working mother.

A 2016 article describes Harris as: … first Indian woman elected to a Senate seat and the second black woman… vs a 2020 headline: Biden picks Kamala Harris as running mate, first Black woman. (Both come from the Associated Press.)

Adding both identities in Harris’s description will allow little girls who are of these ethnicities to see a woman who looks like them be referred to how they are themselves. A female president will already allow little girls to feel like they could be like that, but to say Harris’s full identity may make a little girl like her see herself in Harris and grow up to be in a large part of government just like Harris has done.

To see that Trump had won robbed those little girls.

Every little girl knows that America doesn’t want a female president. I felt the sadness that all little girls are feeling now back in 2016 when Hilary Clinton lost to Donald Trump.

Girls in all parts of life have felt sadness that America doesn’t want us. 24 women have run for president and those girls who saw women running may have felt put down in the same way. 

Victoria Woodhull ran before women even had the right to vote (and was the first woman to run), Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman in both chambers of Congress, Patsy Mink was the first Asian woman in Congress, and Sherley Chisolm was the first African-American woman in Congress.

More women have started to run for president recently, but none have gotten a political nomination until Clinton.

With much more knowledge about government, I feel like I was just hit in the face that Kamala Harris will not be the 47th president.

America is for everyone. Unless you are a girl.