What Donald Trump’s America Really Means For Women’s Rights 

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It seems quite barbaric to be researching the ‘Donald Trump Effect’ on women, but here we are.

 United States of America will be very different from today, as the Republican candidate takes his post as the leader of the fucked world. But one of the groups of people America will be very different for is women. In particular women of colour.

Trump’s win wasn’t based solely on the fact Hillary Clinton was a woman, but it certainly played a part. The tangerine twat is proof that a man can beat a woman despite an abhorrent personality because he can shout louder, tell better lies and preach that he knows what’s best for women more than women do.

 won the election. But what will Trump’s impact on women’s rights around the world really be?

Based on positions outlined on Trump’s campaign website and statements prior to Election Day, the following are situations that may happen now he holds major control of the presidency, House, Senate and Supreme Court. Don’t expect many smiles.

In 2013 Trump tweeted: “26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?”

By voting in a man who promotes sexual harassment as “locker room talk” to call the shots of the most powerful country in the world, the message circulating the globe is that violence against women is not just acceptable behaviour, it’s laudable.

Unravelling decades of the feminist fight against rape culture – which clearly still thrives in a world where a man who has allegedly raped can be hailed by the electorate – Trump’s win will be detrimental to rape culture’s targets.

Survivors and future victims of sexual assault and rape will be silenced by the misogynistic future. Girls growing up will learn that sexual harassment is a trivial subject, a subject locker room lads joke about with their mates acceptably. Women will have reiterated to them that there’s no point going forward with sexual assault claims because their abusers might be President one day.

We ask women why they don’t come forward when sexually assaulted. It’s because we live in a society where their abusers can become President

— Darren Hayes (@darrenhayes) November 9, 2016

Who better to look up to that the red cap-wearing President of the United States? Backed by the majority, people will be more confident and vocal in their prejudices aimed at women with little or no punishment.

An extreme result of Trump’s America will see misogyny hailed as the new go-to attitude. “Woke” will be replaced by “alt-right” and defenders of free speech will insist on prioritising hate speech. And vicious misogyny will be a direct consequence.

The hyper-conservative alt-right is already inspiring hundreds of thousands of America’s young men, who are happily xenophobic, homophobic and racist and hail Trump as their “glorious leader”. The growing far-right movement is also happy to call out feminism for a number of reasons.

It denies rape culture, accuses feminists of lying about sexism and prioritises the fight for men’s rights over the fight for women’s. What’s most terrifying about the fringe group though is that people were already listening before Trump was elected.

If Trump’s state of mind infects enough US citizens, we could see the alt-right become more powerful than ever, which will in turn legitimise the inferiority of women.

Despite the mogul’s attempts at keeping vague about abortion in some debates – his stance on it has changed over time, according to the man himself – Trump’s most recent comments were that women who have abortions should should face legal punishment of some kind.

Although in 1999 the businessman claimed he was “very pro-choice”, he recently branded himself pro-life. Trump has since said he is staunchly against abortion, unless in cases of rape, incest of if the mother’s life is at risk.

He also said that he would defund Planned Parenthood – America’s number one organisation for reproductive health – because a portion of its services contribute to providing abortions.

Regardless of the significant battle from women’s rights campaigners to have control of their own bodies and the choice of abortion, a Trump America could see Planned Parenthood scrapped and abortions demonised and even criminalised. At the hands of a man.

What’s even worse though is that without Planned Parenthood, contraceptives will be damn hard to access. And not bringing babies into this hateful abyss is high on our to-do lists.

Women of colour will once again take a backseat

Hillary Clinton wasn’t the perfect candidate to bring positivity, equality and democracy to America. And yet, at least under her, women would have been considered during the lawmaking process more than under Donald “grab her by the pussy” Trump.

But with The Donald and his long history of disrespect for people of colour and minorities, the White House has officially experienced a so-called “whitelash” which will affect black women the most. On CNN last night, political commentator Van Jones explained how Trump’s success is a “whitelash against a changing country”.

Racism and sexism hand in hand, Trump rushed to victory on his platform of hate in a world that was finally championing black power with Barack and Michelle Obama becoming the first presidential couple to discuss racial issues at length. Endorsed by the KKK and aiming for a blanket ban on Muslims entering America, Trump truly could fuck so many lives.

Of course Trump’s discrimination will target black people of all genders and ages. But the most vulnerable as a result will be black and minority women. Continuously on the receiving end of hostility from the rest of the world, we will all have to open our eyes when the future gets bleak for women of colour and resist.

Melania Trump will be our iconic new First Lady

Chin up, it’s not all bad. Sure it’s terrible that “misogynist” will be in everyone’s Twitter bios, abortions will land you in prison and rape jokes will be everywhere like the plague. But to counteract all that is the chance to honour the enthusiastic new First Lady, Melania Trump.

She will show the world that Michelle Obama’s understanding of the real struggles black women experience in America doesn’t mean shit when you can worship a woman who copied her speech instead. Basically the same! Right?

Donald Trump and his wife Melania, the new First Lady (Photo: Q)

This map shows that if only young people voted Trump would have lost