How I, A Victim Of Sexual Assault, Feel Having Trump Elected President
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How I, A Victim Of Sexual Assault, Feel Having Trump Elected President

How am I supposed to have a president who is a constant reminder of the past lead my country?

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How I, A Victim Of Sexual Assault, Feel Having Trump Elected President
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I am not going to bash anyone by any means nor am I going to tell you are wrong for voting for someone. I don’t care whether you voted for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, or a third party. I am not saying I am for one or the other. What I want America to hear is something that needs to be heard no matter your opinions.

As a victim of sexual assault, I am in shock over Trump being elected to the presidency. How am I supposed to live in a country with a president who doesn’t have the respect for women as one should? How am I supposed to have a president who is a constant reminder of the past lead my country? It’s already hard enough but now, and I think I speak for us all, it is going to be harder.

America already has too many reports of sexual assaults. America is already a place where people don’t feel like they can speak up about their assault(s). I am so scared of where we are going to be in four years. We wonder why we have such problems in the US, but here we are electing a president who has been accused of sexually assaulting women. We wonder why victims don’t come forward and tell someone...because we elect presidents who are abusers. Now, I have no idea if those reports are actually true or not but whether or not they are, Trump’s “locker room” talk is still an issue. He has said some things about women that just hit me to the core. This is where rape culture starts! Young men and boys are going to look up to Trump. It breaks me inside to know that they are looking up to someone who doesn’t see his “locker room” talk as a way of encouraging rape culture.

I feel like my country doesn’t care about a problem as big as this. How did we look over this? How are victims supposed to look up to him? How are they supposed to be proud to be an American when their president is just like the person who forever changed their lives? America, when you voted and didn’t want either so you wrote in Harambe, did you think about what the outcome would be? America, when you voted did you think about your daughters, wives, sisters, girlfriends?

America, when you voted did you think of us, the victims?

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