There has been much talk of healing in this fervid season. The racism that President Obama's election forced to the surface emboldened the so-called alt-right, but also forced many white Americans to acknowledge lasting inequities. That may well be the case during the tenure of President Trump: an eruption of sexism and an inability to deny its virulence.
"Some men have this feeling that women are coming " in education, on polls, on social media, they have a voice," said Marianne Cooper, a sociologist at Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. "This upends a long history of women knowing their place."
So what comes next, now that Mr. Trump has defied political convention and political correctness? Some of the men who feel pushed aside are looking to him to rebalance the scales they feel have tipped against them. Many women are wondering whether words and deeds that a half-century of feminism tried to put off limits will now be acceptable.
The pink and blue divide may prove as deep, fractious and mutually incomprehensible as the red and blue
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