A win for one, loss for some

So, the people have spoken after all. Did someone else lose except Hillary Clinton?

The ayes have it. The women lost.

What could women really have achieved had Hillary been elected Potus?

Power image, to start with.

 As late as it is now, let’s take another look at the third presidential debate, anyway. There was Donald Trump with a smoking gun in his hand aimed at his opponent and there was Hillary, demanding of him a sane clarification of what his recorded tape revealed about his views on women and their sexuality. There was no explanation. At least not that could make sense of it all to women voters. The only explanation he gave of what was in the tape was that it was nothing but a lockerroom talk. Heck, that was some locker room talk! That is not all the US election run game was about.

 There was more. The manifestos. What exactly did Trump’s manifesto laid out as a policy to advance women’s rights?  Clarifications, I say. In one rally, he makes a remark, demeaning women, calling them fat, pigs and sexual objects and the other day he clears it as not intended. The President-elect had a great help of his Twitter account for that matter. However, Hillary Clinton , a woman herself, a someone from among the same camp, had something a lot better to offer to women. She promised reforms to give women sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Not just that. This woman was really serious about steering reforms to deliver access to abortion, free birth control, funded Planned Parenthood and more. Whether Trump would advance these things is up for speculation but women-folk really lost some assurance of their rights with Hillary Clinton. Her manifesto that promised free access to birth control and access to safe and legal abortion and other empowering acts could have changed the gender-dynamics.  And now, I guess, we just have to keep up with surprises from our President-elect who, in his campaign, vowed to repeal the AffordableCare Act. Not just legally, Hillary being the President could have given a huge moral support to females that they were being represented in the real sense.

Anyway, hope is a good antidote to cope with the loss.

 Let’s hope Trump proves himself a different kind of a man than the one seen in the campaign.

 But, make no mistake.

It’s the same person as our President-elect who once poked fun at Hillary for her need to go to the bathroom for a call of nature. May be the President-elect is absolved of this need, but not the rest of us. Let’s hope it does not bother him anymore. PresidentObama, in his speech to the black caucus 7 weeks from elections, cried out to the people to either vote the person who would advance democracy, tolerance, good schools and an end to mass incarceration. He was no doubt referring to Hillary. Now, along with the women, the LGBT community the Black race, and the other colored Americans would have to pray that Trump did not mean those things that he said about them.

 Let’s have our fingers crossed in hope that Trump is not really up for White supremecy.