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Not everything is about man vs woman

Great news people, US Elections 2016 is finally over. In not so great news Trump won and if you happen to have friends and family in US, I say good luck to you. If you haven't encountered the "scary times" narrative, you indeed have a set of very brave friends and family, or maybe just realistic people. I am a woman, hence most of my friends tend to belong to the same gender. And some of these friends seem to be echoing the same thought that Hillary lost because she was a woman. In their words, if Hillary were a man, her mistakes (Email Scam & Benghazi) wouldn't have mattered that much. When questioned on corruption (mishandling of funds, shady primary win), I get a very cool response all politicians are corrupt and a women needs to be even more cut throat. And at that very moment my world starts spinning around me, and I want to start breathing out fire. As you can see I am not a fire breathing dragon, I resort to punching keys vigorously. Since this angry s