Thanks John, for leaving such a non-incendiary response to my post.

I totally understand much of what you write.

My question is how we become aware of an influence on our decisions without stopping to reflect on it. What appears logical can actually be bias. In a world where there seem to be so many indicators that women are not treated equally, many of which I spoke and wrote of, I only recently stopped to query my own behaviour.

So yes, if I had voted Mr. Clinton but then not Mrs. Clinton, that might be a sign.

But so many, albeit not you, responded to my article with brash statements that waved misogyny away as if we live in a society that has risen beyond such bias.

So I appreciate the tone you took. I did take liberties with my argument. I generalized, but I can say that as a far-right liberal, I do believe my behaviour was far below my ideals when it came to Ms. Clinton and statements I had made.

But now I have a much greater mountain to climb. How to understand what has transpired. I get not voting for Clinton, but I am struggling to understand how to understand a vote for Trump as anything but support for bigotry, racism and worse. I don’t mean that as an attack on you or any other voter.

I am just hoping that there is something I don’t comprehend and that approaching 50% of our population is indeed not pleased to support such things.