Welcome to the platform, Sarah! Great piece here!

I like to think of Trump and his ilk as inadvertent purveyors of spiritual plyometrics. They're making it SO BAD that we collectively can't help but leap up to a higher and better level of being.

As a fellow feminist pen-wielder, I think that we're going to be seeing this (hopefully positive) reaction to the flailing bluster and incompetence of the old regime for a while yet. My mentor Dr. Riane Eisler calls this "the dominator mindset."

We're going to have to activate our awareness that it is not actually MEN who are at fault, it's the system that placed men in charge. Because we don't want to do to men what they did to us. Marginalize, dismiss, blame, and other.

Otherwise, the change we crave won't have space to grow. And we will slip into the dominator mindset without realizing it.

No, we're going to have to pull up our big girl panties and change the SYSTEMS with our newfound power and influence. We're going to need to help pull men out from under the rubble of the fallen patriarchy, and give them new places in a PARTNERSHIP based world, as the dominator mindset goes the way of the dodo.

Of course, they're going to need to do their work as well. It's not all on us. #mentoo

These values of empathy, intelligence, and resilience need to stop being coded as female-only - and start becoming the norm we all aspire to.

And yes, we women are here to lead the way. Finally!