Haunting, heartbreaking essay by a 16 year-old girl

Haunting, heartbreaking essay by a 16 year-old girl
Xinyue Chen
We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman. Where the kind of man my mother instructs me to cross the street to avoid will be addressed as Mr. President. Where the body I haven’t fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday.