The Bad Orange Man has really done a hell of a number on liberals — particularly, it seems, young upper-middle-class white women from places like Georgetown or Portland, indoctrinated into the Social Justice™ cult.
“Trump’s Win Terrifies Me. Why Don’t Boys My Age Care?” rhetorically asks the teenage girl who attends the school with unisex bathrooms.
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Via The New York Times (emphasis added):
On the morning after the election, I walked up the staircase of my school. A preteen was crying into the shoulders of her braces-clad peer. Her friend was rubbing circles on her back.
I continued up the stairs to the lounge, where upperclassmen linger before classes. There I saw two tables: One was filled with my girlfriends, many of them with hollows under their eyes. There was a blanket of despair over the young women in the room. I looked over to the other table of teenage boys and saw Minecraft on their computers. While we were gasping for a breath, it seemed they were breathing freely.
We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman. Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to cross the street to avoid will be addressed as Mr. President. Where the body I haven’t fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday.
Really amazing stuff.
This girl has obviously been groomed politically. No 16-year-old would ever organically be as upset as she claims to be, as a high school junior, about her precious abortions.
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Continuing:
I am scared that the Trump administration will take away or restrict birth control and Plan B — the same way it did abortion. I am scared that the boys I know will see in a triumphant, boastful Mr. Trump the epitome of a manly man and model themselves after him. I was 8 years old the first time he was elected. Now I am 16. I am still unable to vote, but I am so much more aware of what I have to lose…
Eight years ago, I was too young to feel the full force of Hillary Clinton’s loss. Now at 16, I’ve had the wind knocked out of me. On Wednesday, I was flush with anger — but it was diluted by an even stronger feeling: defeat. I saw it in the eyes of women in my subway car that morning. I saw it in the barista at the coffee shop on the corner, the female security guard at my school and in the face of my history teacher.
In a terrible way, I’ve never felt more part of a sisterhood or more certain that pain is shared within that family. I wish the consequences of this moment for young women punctured the apparent indifference of so many men and boys I saw that day. I wish they could breathe in what the women and girls I know have been inhaling since Nov. 5.
Such is the fruit of feminism.
Note the total lack of literally any policy mention — I checked thoroughly — except for abortion and birth control.
It’s all abortion, all the time.
The abortion obsession is because a.) people of this class have no real problems to get worked up about, and so Democrats need a lightning rod issue to galvanize the base, and b.) this girl, like so many of her class, wants — needs — to be a victim.
Social capital opens up for her benefit by being a permanent victim.
Her personal identity is victimhood; if she ever overcame her oppressors, who would she be then?
Like a fish flopping on solid ground, she’d have to reinvent herself and her place in the world.
What this is is Munchausen syndrome of a non-standard variety.
Via Cleveland Clinic (emphasis added):
Munchausen syndrome (also known as factitious disorder imposed on self) is a mental health disorder where you falsify, exaggerate, or induce physical, emotional or cognitive disorders.
People with factitious disorders act this way because of an inner need to be seen as ill or injured...
If you have Munchausen syndrome, you may undergo painful or risky medical tests and operations in order to get the sympathy and special attention given to people who are truly ill. You may secretly injure yourself to cause signs of illness. You may add blood to your urine, or use a rubber band to cut off circulation to a limb. Some people will cut or burn themselves, poison themselves, reopen wounds, rub feces or dirt into a wound to cause infection, or eat food contaminated with bacteria…
The online community has groups for people with physical and mental/emotional health issues. They’re meant to be a safe place where people who have a disorder can come together and discuss their difficulties, share tips and provide support. Examples of support groups include those for leukemia patients, cancer patients and cystic fibrosis patients.
