Personal Narrative: Gender Equality In The United States

With 2016 have being an election year, politics are everywhere. People wear shirts, have signs outside of their homes, and often times discuss or argue about these with others. Personally, as an 18 year old this was my first year voting. I was excited and overwhelmed with such a decision. However, growing up I have always been raised to have particular beliefs and I have always stood by those beliefs. My choice was very clear from the beginning of it all. I was with her. I grew up in a very small town with a population of 1,300. Everyone from this town, except for my family and maybe a few others made it very clear how conservative their beliefs were. My three best friends from this town, two who are attached to the military and one whose …show more content…
However, when this man became a possibility for president of the United States, many spoke out. They told their story. Trumps responses were demeaning to these women. Away from these events, he has put down women by stating that breastfeeding is “disgusting”. He has made insulting comments about women 's appearances with no remorse. His remarks about the LGBTQ commnity are completely against them having any of the rights that they have fought for for far too long to lose them after just being handed them. The stances he has places on people of color follow these in the same way. Basically if you are not a white educated male, Trump has an issue with it and has not been afraid to tell anyone how her feels. Personally, I still cannot understand how 42% of women voted for Trump (Tyson), despite knowing his sexist approach towards women, or that 8% of African- Americans still chose to vote for Donald Trump …show more content…
If anyone brings politics up, I politely decline to carry out the discussion. Personally, I will forever feel that I am correct for believing in equality and love, but I am also aware that people feel differently. As a whole, it seems that everyone who lives their lives more conservatively use religion, primarily christianity, as their reasoning for their beliefs. Although I do admire them for being able to stand so strongly by their beliefs, it is also difficult for me to even think of using my religious beliefs as a way to berate other beings such as women, people of different races, or members of the LGBT community. I have noticed that many of my Facebook friends like to use the reasoning that God wants Trump as our president and that is why he won. However, I still struggle to understand why God would want a man filled with so much hate to lead our