Senator Chris McDaniel (R) from Mississippi posted this to his Facebook account yesterday:

This isn’t the first time I have seen this sort of sentiment from a man, whether he is a legislator or just some loudmouthed friend of a friend whose ignorant ramblings have made their way onto my Facebook page. This interpretation of why women are upset about a Trump presidency is flawed on so many levels, but I’m going to try and break down a few of the obvious points.

Not All Women Want or Need Free Birth Control

This seems to be a difficult point for some men to understand, so I’m going to state it as simply as I can: Not all women are obsessed with consequence-free fucking. (There are many more medical reasons women take birth control that have nothing to do with preventing pregnancy, but I’ll stick to the basics, lest we confuse the menfolk.)

I don’t need birth control. It’s quite the opposite, considering my husband and I have struggled unsuccessfully to overcome infertility. I’m willing to bet there are thousands of LGBTQ women protesting Donald Trump’s inauguration who are similarly unconcerned with access to free birth control pills. Also, and I realize Senator McDaniel isn’t a doctor or anything, but he might want to take a minute and consider whether or not Gloria Steinem, age 82, is fighting for access to free birth control. (Spoiler alert: She is not. See also: menopause.)

Women have myriad reasons for wanting access to affordable, quality healthcare. We have hearts and lungs and bad backs and all that other shit that you men avoid going to the doctor to treat. We’re not simply walking vaginas. I know, right? SHOCKING.

Also, we’re not just fighting for the Affordable Care Act, as big of an issue as that is and as hell-bent as the GOP is on dismantling it.

Women Aren’t Just Fighting for Their Own Self-Interest

This is the other aspect of Senator McDaniel’s ignorance that I find offensive: If a woman can afford a plane ticket to Washington D.C. or a tattoo or a Coach bag, what could she possibly have to be upset about?

Are you fucking kidding me?

Here’s the part where I lay out my privilege to make a point: I’m a white, straight, upper-middle class woman with a caring husband and a nice house. Do you want to know how much of an effect a Trump presidency will have on me personally? Probably not that much, to be honest.

I know how fortunate I am and I acknowledge that. I own that. My race, my sexual orientation, and my general station in life are not something I came by through hard work. It was pure luck. I could have been born anywhere to anyone.

I am not just fighting for myself.

What about immigrants who come to America seeking a life I was lucky enough to be born into? What happens to a Muslim child whose classmates call her a terrorist? How do black mothers cope with sending their sons out into a world in which the president has replaced the government website’s section on civil rights with a diatribe about respecting law enforcement? Do I sit back and relax, secure in my marriage, while LGBTQ couples worry about the legal fate of theirs?

We Are All Affected by This Presidency

Then there are the things my privilege can’t protect me from, and you aren’t safe either, Senator McDaniel.

Climate change doesn’t stop happening just because mention of it is deleted from the government’s website.

Our enemies abroad don’t take a seat when our president chants, “America first!” Do they hear Trump’s promise of “America winning” and back down, or do they rise to the challenge?

I read a comment a right-winger made on Twitter about how the reason that Trump’s inauguration didn’t have as many attendees as Obama’s was because “they all had jobs to go to.” But I thought that’s what Trump’s supporters were complaining about: lack of jobs?

It’s not very productive to boil either side down to a clever sound bite, is it?