If you had any doubt 2016 is about women's equality, #Repealthe19th is trending

There is a choice before us: A woman who advocates for women, or a man who treats us like garbage. And the decision will have far-reaching consequences, both legal and cultural, for women. Is our nation ready to move forward on women’s rights, or is our equality going to be delayed once more?

That question could not be more appropriate. With a flood of revelations about Trump’s egregious and aggressive behavior around girls and women, as well as the suggestion that women should lose the right to vote, Hillary Clinton’s candidacy takes on even more significance.

She is the tip of the spear, bearing a thousand cuts and scrapes and scratches as she smashes through the final layer of the glass ceiling. And far too many of her supporters have endured endless intimidation and marginalization as they carry her to victory.

These wounds are the price we pay for progress. On November 8th, voters will send a message to the world that America values and respects women and that the misogyny Trump represents has no place in our society.

As Melissa so eloquently conveys:

Electing Clinton would not solve institutional gender bias: We are not, despite claims to the contrary, living in a post-feminist world. Electing President Obama did not solve institutional racism, either — but his election was an important symbol, and much more than a symbol, too.

This little Black boy touching the President’s hair and discovering it feels like his is more than a symbol. This little Black girl losing! her! cool! in the most adorable ways about getting to shake the hand of a (then future) President who looks like her is more than a symbol.

To little girls, like Lilly who wanted to change her name to Lillary, and to women, like 103 year-old Ruline, who never thought she would get to vote for a woman, electing Hillary Clinton would be much more than a symbol.

Especially when the choice is not merely between a woman and someone who isn’t a woman, but a feminist woman and a profoundly anti-feminist man.

This is what I know: There is only one candidate in this race who respects me in my full humanity. Who believes that women’s rights are human rights, and said so, under no small amount of pressure not to.

That candidate is Hillary Clinton.