Hillary Clinton’s new ad calling out Trump’s sexist self is bang on

‘A woman who is flat-chested is very hard to be a ten’


In 2016, it seems as if women have really begun to make way in the tireless process of reclaiming one’s body for oneself – whether it’s celebrities like Rihanna working to normalize the female nipple, or women like Hillary Clinton, making waves as the first female major-party presidential nominee.

What is important to remember is that we still have a long way to go. Women continue to be shut down. We continue to be over sexualized, and yet we must continue to fight on.

With Trump, a major-party presidential nominee, continuing to make sexist remarks such as, “I’d look her right in the fat ugly face of hers,”She ate like a pig,” and “She have a good body, no. She have a fat ass, absolutely,” we need to questions how much real progress we have actually made.

In 2015, women working full time in the United States were paid just 80 percent of what men were paid – a gap of 20 percent. The gap itself has increased one percentage point since 2014, and according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the earnings ratio hasn’t had significant annual change since 2007. If the rate of change continues at the same pace it has been, women will not even reach pay equity until 2059, but judging by the slow in recent years, even this now seems optimistic. In fact, continuation at the rate seen since 2001, would leave us hanging until 2152.

But how can we fight for equal pay, or equal jobs when we haven’t yet gained the respect of being treated like humans? We need to stop and ask ourselves if we are settling for something far, far less than we are capable of.

“Do you treat women with respect?” an interviewer asks Trump at then end of the ad. “Uh, I can’t say that” is his only response.

Is this the president we want for our daughters?