Miss Virginia Woolf writes to President Donald Trump
Dear Mr.Trump, Through my writings I have expressed many different ideas on the patriarchy and how it is represented in the media. You must already know this from your excessive studies before becoming the president of the United States. However, if it has slipped your mind due to the fact of current pressures, I will gladly enlighten you once again. I would just like to make clear the parallel of our views.
My published work, “A Room of One’s Own”, which I am sure you have read, contains many of the opinions I will be comparing to your own. The first one that comes to mind, when watching you perform on stage, would be to claim that what you say has been, “written in the red light of emotion and not in the white light of truth.” When evidence is presented this way it becomes worthless. However, this can been seen many times when you present yourself to an audience with the illusion that you believe you are delivering facts. A specific example would be in your Republican National Convention speech. In the beginning you promise, “I will present the facts plainly and honestly. We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore.” This is completely discredited once you open your mouth for the second time with fierce emotion and spew the words, “So if you want to hear the corporate spin, the carefully-crafted lies, and the media myths the Democrats are holding their convention next week.” This ill-passioned behavior continued when you participated in the Presidential Debate against Hillary Clinton. This would bring up a second notion of mine stating, “When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument; and the reader cannot help thinking of the argument too.” You, however, had a very different approach to this.
The way the second half of my writing fits with your dedicated performance in front of the voters is quite remarkable. I expressed, “Yet,it is absurd...that a man with all this power should be angry. Or is it anger, I wondered, somehow, the familiar, the attendant sprite on power?” And then I realized I found the line I wrote that just captured every thought that had danced its way past my mind. “Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority.” This can been seen past your presidency and through an interview in 1994 with ABC News when you explained, “I think putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing. Unfortunately, after they’re a star, the fun is over for me... It’s very sad.” To walk through your reasoning and arrive to your blunt conclusion that a woman’s worth degrades when her success increases did not ring true to me until I remembered how well females compared to a looking-glasses. “Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.” The proof of you believing you are twice your realistic size is most evident through your attitude, aura, and the limitations you force onto others. It is seen through your words, for example, when you discuss women, “I do own Miss Universe. I do own Miss USA. I mean I own a lot of different things.” This ownership statement takes all humanity off these individuals. This statement alone could prove my theory that without women enlarging your importance, “...the earth would still be swamp and jungle. The glories of all our wars would be unknown. We should still be scratching the outlines of deer on the remains of mutton bones and bartering flints for sheepskins or whatever simple ornament took our unsophisticated taste.” This metaphor continues to speak truth when I say, “The looking glass vision is of supreme importance because it charges the vitality; it stimulates the nervous system. Take it away and men may die, like the drug fiend deprived of his cocaine.” An example of this would be your reaction whenever your title was threatened by your opposing candidate, Hillary Clinton. Once again, you bring into light aspects that have no purpose when running for president with your tweet, “If Hillary Clinton can’t satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?” Through this you show that the only way to determine whether one can be a decent leader of the United States is how well you perform in the bedroom. You continue to directly attack your opponent when you feel your image beginning to shrink in comparison to hers with such words as, “This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction, and weakness.”
I have a strong belief that, “Fiction is likely to contain more truth than fact.” However, in your case of ‘alternative facts’ the only truth is that you highly underestimate women, an extremely dangerous move on your part. This is seen even with your pathetic attempt to claim, “I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than I do.” If this fiction does have any truth you would understand the confusion from the crowds of young females whose future is being decided by a man who stands in front of them and thinks, “When you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy.” This fiction, like your campaign, contains no facts. The only truth you have proved to the country is that you are a “pathological liar” , “an embarrassment” , “not qualified to be president” , and “a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.”
Best wishes, Virginia Woolf
