Hey, Donald: You Have Really Bad Hair

So, The Donald.

Until the recent Republican debate,  he was pretty much off my radar.  A bombastic buffoon with truly terrible hair (my hairdresser is sure he cuts it himself), someone who would go away, thank God.  Implode, and the sooner the better.

But when I read that Megyn Kelly asked him about calling women "fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals,"  it really touched a nerve.  Apparently, he's also called women "ugly, grotesque, and "the unsexiest woman alive."  The last referred to Sarah Jessica Parker.



Now I really, truly despise him.


I remember the first time a boy said a really mean thing about me.  It was during a school dance class in the 7th grade.  He muttered to a friend, loud enough for me to hear, that I had big feet and hairy legs.

Thanks, Steve van Sickle.  Did I mention at the time that you had bad hair and nerd glasses?  No.  Would I have thought to within your earshot?  No.  I wanted you to like me.  Also, I was not mean.



When I was young and single, I heard similar remarks from some men.  Why was my hair so short?  Was I a lesbian?  My feet were big (again).  I had a moustache.  I looked like I'd gained weight.

A lot of these unkind comments were meant to get me to prove I was a woman by having sex with these these people.  I never did, but I was hurt and full of self-doubt. (Do guys use the lesbian line anymore?  Or is it so politically incorrect that they've given up?  I fervently hope so.)

Trump is one in a long line of males who try to intimidate women by making cruel remarks about their appearance.  At 65, I'm invisible to men like him, and I move in "liberal, coastal, sophisticated" circles, as a New York Times writer characterized us in last week's Sunday magazine.  I can't imagine a man I know making such comments.

But I'll bet that this kind of intimidation is going on at Berkeley High School, just across town.  I'll bet there are boys sniping away at girls about their appearance, trying to bully them into submission. There are still men who model this kind of behavior, and Trump is one of them.

So it's not so much Trump's implying that Megyn Kelly was having her period and therefore "mean" to him that I find most offensive. That's so absurd and irrelevant that it isn't worth addressing.  It's the point she brought up in the first place: that he makes derogatory remarks about women and whenever the hell he wants.

I began to wonder: We may make fun of Trump's hair, but has anyone ever said it to his face?  Has anyone ever told him that he looks bad, has a tight mouth, a sour expression, and--I don't know--big feet?  Or that he has an extra roll around his middle (I'm guessing here)?

I doubt it.  The press makes fun of him, and so do we Coastal Liberals, privately.  But he's rich, aggressive, and scary. Who wants to step up to The Donald and tell him what we're all thinking?  Is anyone that brave? (or mean?)
 
He's a bombastic buffoon, yes.  But he's also unkind, controlling, and a bully.  He verbally beats up men and women. Sorry if I offend anyone with this, but,  really, he's just an asshole.  When I get to be President, I'm going to build a tall fence to keep people like him out of  the country.