Lorraine Berry

If the 2016 election has taught us anything, it is that attacks against powerful women politicians will focus on the fact of their being "imperfect females" as if those mythical imperfections are disqualifications for office. Having a voice as a woman in 2016 is no different than being a powerful woman five centuries ago: when political opponents cannot beat you on the issues, they'll revert to the old chestnuts: powerful women are monsters, bitches, and, according to the British conservative tabloid The Daily Mail, "lesbians."

"Such a nasty woman."

Pity the male white supremacist: he began the year hopeful that a man who made no attempts to hide his racist rhetoric would ride white resentment all the way to the highest office in the land. But now, with three weeks until the general election, the great white behemoth is sinking under the rain of harpoons launched by angry women, and no matter how they try to spin the numbers, Donald Trump cannot win the election with the sole support of white men.

A Trump supporter, worried that there were other "closet" Trump supporters who felt unheard in Virginia, stood outside a Congressional candidate's campaign office for twelve hours while displaying a loaded firearm. Daniel Parks said that his protest was peaceful, but that he intended to "stand his ground" on behalf of other Trump supporters.

If one needed more evidence that the gap between the haves and the have-nots in New York City is an uncrossable ravine, the most recent story from Manhattan's Upper East Side may have kicked out the last strut holding up the mythic bridge to equality. City Parks worker Tasheema Chatman was ordered by her supervisors to bring cleaning supplies over to the park to clean dog feces off the shoe of an artist.