Note: I know I am not perfect, and therefore not always the qualities I claim to be. I also know that not everyone who didn't vote for Donald Trump is calling us, Trump-voters, names. Similarly, I know not all Trump-voters fit into the "kind" category.

I know who I am. Thanks to me, thanks to my parents, my friends, my school—but most importantly, thanks to God—I know who I am. I am loving, I am kind, I am confident, I am empathetic. I am smart. I try to go out of my way to include people who I know are being left out. I try to make friends with people who look lonely. If someone looks upset, I ask them if they're OK, and I actually listen to their response. I am the person who will stick up for the person being bullied or made fun of. The interesting thing is, contrary to what you might say, I am all of these things, to everyone—regardless of race, regardless of religion, regardless of gender, regardless of wealth, regardless of sexual orientation.

Did I vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 election? If you look at the qualities listed above, that would seem impossible, right?

Wrong.

I voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 general election. And, according to you, I am a bigot.

I am hateful. I am homophobic, I am Islamophobic, I am xenophobic (intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries, for anyone like me who was convinced words were just being made up to illustrate how I apparently hate everything that isn't white). With that said, I am a white supremacist. I am a woman, but that only makes me slightly less sexist than my male counterpart.

So, what happens when millions of people like me get tired of putting our best foot forward and trying to be loving and kind to everyone? I mean, it should not make sense to even you for us to be kind and loving to everyone if we're going to get called "racist" and "misogynistic" and "bigoted" anyway. You are cornering us into a "no win" situation.

To answer my question, when millions of people like me get tired of being labeled something we are not, we could become what you say we are. And once we become *insert whatever non-white, non-heterosexual word here*—phobic, what are you going to call us? What are you going to call us when we are actually outspokenly hateful?

Don't worry, though, I won't become hateful, bigoted, misogynistic, Islamophobic, etc., just to spite you.

I won't, because of who I am.

I am loving, I am kind, I am thoughtful. I am empathetic. I am hard-working and I am understanding. I am smart. I am all of these things to and for everyone, regardless of their skin color, regardless of their religion, regardless of the gender and regardless of their sexual orientation. I am all of these things because they are the right things to be—regardless of the recognition I get. Regardless of the names I am called, regardless of the misleading articles that are written about me.

With that said, do you realize that you are categorizing me with the same people who lynched black people simply for being black? Do you realize that while I have done nothing but love any gay person I have met, you are categorizing me with the Orlando nightclub shooter?

You might not have called me sexist or misogynistic, but you've called my dad that—someone who has done nothing but support all the women in his life. You called my friends that—friends that have done nothing but support me. Friends that always treat women with respect. You have insulted my grandpa who has helped raise four fantastically successful and independent women.

You do know that words have meaning, right? What happens when you call people like me bigoted and Islamophobic?

The moment you call me, my family and my friends misogynistic, bigoted, homophobic, Islamophobic, etc., you are insulting our integrity. But, more importantly, you are making it less significant, less powerful, less serious, when you use those words to describe people and acts that actually deserve them.

In the words of Ernest Hemingway, "All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

Therefore, I challenge you. Consider the weight of your words and the implications of your slander the next time you speak. Don't do it to please us, do it so the misogynist knows he is misogynistic. Do it so the racist know's he's racist. Do it so the word, "bigot" actually means something when it is said, rather than it being brushed off because the word is used so liberally. Do it so when you use those words to describe hateful people, it is rightfully so.