El Douche-bag Donald Trump is a wreck! by The Bard of Bat Yam, Poet Laureate of Zion

El Douche-bag Donald Trump is a wreck!
Talk about politically incorrect,Trump is ethical broke!
Your proverbial bad joke!
Can his Twittering get any dumber?
Has he thought reality of his numbers?
Thinks he is our knight in shining armor,
Can't even handle personal indiscretion war.
Ask Ivana and Melania about his demeanor,
Has no right to call anyone a loser
If he should happen to win,
Call me Canadian!
Talk about Arrogant
When he passes a mirror he stops and pouts
Donald Trump 45th President, a hellish dilemma
#RIPUSA God Save America

#RIPUSA , # SoTackySoTrump Melania poses with a Gun, Thong on Trump's $60 Million Plane

.... and the alt right had a problem with Michelle's arms ? Oy Vey #AmericaHangsItsHeadInShame


Well there you have it… He thinks he is King of the World and she poses like she in an auditon for a James Bond movie. The NRA endorsed Trump.. HA. totally classless and they call themselves conservative. Hypocritical right wing trashed our First Lady because she bared her arms differently.


I guess to get millions of voters on the right has proven that all you have to do is bully, threaten violence and have a wife show her ass. So much class...Oh my. I just can’t see these people in the White House.

Al Smith Charity Event. Hillary Clinton captures the Audience. Trump forgets the cardinal rule ," Know your Audience" and gets gets Tarred and Feathered.

Sound Off "I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election, if I win." — Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Ohio, making light of the criticism that he is undermining a foundational principle of American democracy "People look at the Statue of Liberty and they see a proud symbol of our history as a nation of immigrants, a beacon of hope for people around the world. Donald looks at the Statue of Liberty and sees a “four.” Maybe a “five” if she loses the torch and tablet and changes her hair." — Hillary Clinton at the Al Smith dinner Donald Trump broke the first rule of public speaking Thursday: always know your audience. There is only one way to describe his performance at the Al Smith Dinner, a New York tradition that every four years features the major party nominees for a night of light-hearted humor to benefit Catholic charities: He bombed. The billionaire former reality show star misread the room of New York elites and the moment—which is used to playful reading and self-deprecating jokes but not political invective. He opened by comparing himself to the son of God and it went downhill from there, fast. By the end of his remarks he was being booed by the white-tie and begowned audience in the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria hotel. He called his rival anti-Catholic and corrupt. “I don’t know who they’re angry at, Hillary, you or I,” Trump said. The answer was clear. Hillary Clinton, by contrast, delivered on the goal for the evening, with some laughs at her own expense and a few at her opponents'. Clinton's best line: "Every year, this dinner brings together a collection of sensible, committed, mainstream Republicans—or, as we now like to call them—Hillary supporters." Trump's best line: "You know, the president told me to stop whining, but I really have to say, the media is even more biased this year than ever before — ever. You want the proof? Michelle Obama gives a speech and everyone loves it — it’s fantastic. They think she’s absolutely great. My wife, Melania, gives the exact same speech — and people get on her case." But the line of the night belonged to Alfred Smith IV, the master of ceremonies, commenting on the sad-but-true takeaway from the upcoming election: "If you were born into immense wealth or if your husband was president you can accomplish anything." Donald Trump is still not backing off his refusal to commit to honoring the results of the November election, and made light of criticism that he is undermining American democracy at a rally Thursday. Meanwhile, he walked out on a local news interview questioning him about controversial comments he has made. President Obama stepped up his criticism of Donald Trump and down-ballot Republicans for their refusal to walk away from him Thursday, as he continues to be one of Clinton's best surrogates on the campaign trail. First Lady Michelle Obama spent the day firing up voters in Arizona, a GOP-leaning state that Trump has put in play.

Al Smith Charity Event. Hillary Clinton captures the Audience. Trump forgets the cardinal rule ," Know your Audience" and gets gets Tarred and Feathered.

Sound Off "I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election, if I win." — Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Ohio, making light of the criticism that he is undermining a foundational principle of American democracy "People look at the Statue of Liberty and they see a proud symbol of our history as a nation of immigrants, a beacon of hope for people around the world. Donald looks at the Statue of Liberty and sees a “four.” Maybe a “five” if she loses the torch and tablet and changes her hair." — Hillary Clinton at the Al Smith dinner Donald Trump broke the first rule of public speaking Thursday: always know your audience. There is only one way to describe his performance at the Al Smith Dinner, a New York tradition that every four years features the major party nominees for a night of light-hearted humor to benefit Catholic charities: He bombed. The billionaire former reality show star misread the room of New York elites and the moment—which is used to playful reading and self-deprecating jokes but not political invective. He opened by comparing himself to the son of God and it went downhill from there, fast. By the end of his remarks he was being booed by the white-tie and begowned audience in the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria hotel. He called his rival anti-Catholic and corrupt. “I don’t know who they’re angry at, Hillary, you or I,” Trump said. The answer was clear. Hillary Clinton, by contrast, delivered on the goal for the evening, with some laughs at her own expense and a few at her opponents'. Clinton's best line: "Every year, this dinner brings together a collection of sensible, committed, mainstream Republicans—or, as we now like to call them—Hillary supporters." Trump's best line: "You know, the president told me to stop whining, but I really have to say, the media is even more biased this year than ever before — ever. You want the proof? Michelle Obama gives a speech and everyone loves it — it’s fantastic. They think she’s absolutely great. My wife, Melania, gives the exact same speech — and people get on her case." But the line of the night belonged to Alfred Smith IV, the master of ceremonies, commenting on the sad-but-true takeaway from the upcoming election: "If you were born into immense wealth or if your husband was president you can accomplish anything." Donald Trump is still not backing off his refusal to commit to honoring the results of the November election, and made light of criticism that he is undermining American democracy at a rally Thursday. Meanwhile, he walked out on a local news interview questioning him about controversial comments he has made. President Obama stepped up his criticism of Donald Trump and down-ballot Republicans for their refusal to walk away from him Thursday, as he continues to be one of Clinton's best surrogates on the campaign trail. First Lady Michelle Obama spent the day firing up voters in Arizona, a GOP-leaning state that Trump has put in play.

Donny T Trump is my ex-husband

Donald Trump is my ex-husband

When we met, he smiled, complimented my looks, took me to fine restaurants, took me dancing. He showed me off, flashing me on his arm like expensive cufflinks. He swept me off my feet, showered me with attention, overwhelmed me with the intensity of his desire for me. He told me how great and accomplished he was and how lucky I was to have him, marveled at the confluence of events in the universe that had brought us together. One month after the day we met he told me he loved me, and one month after that he proposed. Not so much proposed as began talking about how we would be married some day, as though it were the most natural assumption in the world, the inevitable result of our miraculous joining. He said that having a ceremony was almost redundant because we were already married in God’s eyes, yet it was urgent that we marry as soon as possible because the only way we could be together physically was within the sanctity of marriage, which was the only way he wanted his children (and mine) to witness our relationship. We would be a shining example to them, and to the world, of a real family, a Christian family, a good and proper family, where the man treats the woman like a precious diamond and the woman is her husband’s helpmeet in all things. Even though I was an atheist, he declared that my character and outlook on life were more Christian than those of all the other women he had known. He readily admitted that he had been a player, with a string of marriages, one-night stands, three-ways, and physically confrontational relationships behind him. But he was now changed. He was godly, Christian, a new man, a tender and attentive father of two innocent girls. A beloved teacher, a devout churchgoer, a devoted brother to his single sister, and a forgiving son to his deeply damaged father, whose marital indiscretions had resulted in his parents’ divorce when their children were very young. And I was his angel, his love, his inspiration, his very reason for living.

Six months after we met, we married. We continued living in our separate households for a year to help our children transition into our new life. We visited each other and had sleepovers when the kids weren’t home. It was like a year-long date weekend. He hung a photo of us on his bedroom wall with the caption, “A man’s greatest treasure is his wife. She is a gift from the Lord. Prov. 18:22.”

I moved into his house after our first anniversary. I put the contents of my house into storage with the idea that I would gradually incorporate my furniture, appliances, and pictures into my new home. But his house was so completely furnished that there simply wasn’t room for any of my things, which he took to calling “junk.” Once all my things were in storage and I was more or less settled in to the space I was allotted (a dresser and a closet—or, as one of my best friends observed later, “You went from a five-bedroom house of your own to a nursing home.”), he came home one night, found that I hadn’t done something he had wanted me to do, and called me a name. I laughed in his face—it had to be a joke, right?—until I saw the hate in his eyes and realized he was serious. I could hardly believe it. I never dreamed this side of my husband existed. But from that point on, that was the side I primarily saw. 

There were moments when the charming, sweet, solicitous man I thought I ‘d married came out, particularly at gatherings or in public, and so long as that man was beaming at me, I was limp with relief. I redoubled my efforts to be as good and hardworking as I could be to avoid arousing his ire, which I found terrifying. After several such episodes I managed to screw up the courage to ask him, gently, to explain what had happened. He told me that sometimes he reacted the way he did because of his traumatic childhood watching his father abuse his mother. He said that he needed me to reassure him that he was valuable and lovable and that he never wanted to be “on the outside of” my love. I believed his promises that he had changed because I desperately needed to. My credibility, my son’s happiness, our very lives depended on it. When the smiles were replaced by the flashing eyes and the silent treatment that often stretched on for weeks, I felt sick and useless and worthless. He called it being in “the man cave”; I felt I was in the doghouse. I tiptoed on eggshells.

Then the threats came. He always said he’d married me because he needed a good woman to help him “get to the next level”; now he said that if I didn’t help him, he would find someone who would. I was in it too deeply; a year and a half into the marriage three children watching anxiously, hopefully, for the stability they were promised. I clung to the good times that would eventually emerge after the “man cave” times and told myself that the good times were our “real” life, our “real” marriage, and that the ever-lengthening periods of his white-hot anger were the anomalies.

Presently I discovered that he had active profiles on several online dating sites and was hitting on women daily. I managed to save screen shots of his activities and messages, knowing that they would be useful sometime.

I hid it well. I didn’t breathe a word of what I was enduring to my family or friends. I even went to great lengths to tell them how happy I was. I smiled at church, which I attended with him because he said it was important to him. Once the pastor invited to the altar women who had ever been abused. I sat stiffly in the pew, watching in horror as women poured down the aisles by the hundreds, some weeping, and clogged the front of the sanctuary (it was a mega-church with a weekly attendance averaging nearly 5,000). I longed to join them, but I knew that if I did I would pay dearly later.

Any time I was busy with one of my community activities, he would accuse me of neglecting my family who needed me more than did a “bunch of strangers.” I was involved in a local Dancing with the Stars production, and I frantically rushed from rehearsals to get home in time to avoid his wrath. During the show I went backstage to check my messages. I had received a text message from him, and my heart jumped—was he coming to see me in the show? I opened the message to read, “I think it’s best if we get a divorce.” I felt my body freezing from the inside out, my neck tingling, my limbs hardening and then becoming brittle as though they might shatter if I moved a muscle. I stood motionless until the lights dimmed, signalling the end of intermission, then I put down my phone, walked onstage, and danced with my blissfully oblivious partner, a prominent doctor in the community. Afterwards I went home and slept fitfully on the couch. But when morning came he woke me up with yelling, putdowns, accusations and, finally, violence. A broken dresser remained after he stalked out of the house, but I understood that the furniture was a proxy for me, and that if I stayed, I would be next.

Within days, he brought me flowers, declared his undying love, begged me never to stop loving him. I had called the National Domestic Violence Hotline several times over the past few months, but I always stopped short of following their advice to get out as soon as possible. After the broken dresser, I acted. I got a referral to a local support group for survivors of domestic violence and began attending weekly meetings. Ready at last both to acknowledge that I was in an abusive relationship and to follow the advice I was given, I squirreled away money, packed a bag with necessities, made copies of important documents, secured promises of shelter from a few close friends, and waited, with as much cool as I could muster, for the right time to leave.

Where is our nation’s broken dresser? How much longer will we deny we are in an abusive relationship with a lying, cheating, controlling, violent bully? When will we finally screw up the courage to call him what he is and reclaim our dignity and peace of mind? How did we even get to this point in the first place? Why did we allow ourselves to be seduced by an empty showman? How did we miss the red flags?

And how will we ensure we will never fall into this trap again?

I left without a backward glance with my preparations in order and my spirit intact. It took the better part of a year to regain my footing, and my son is still regaining his. But he and I reach, ever hopeful, toward a new future. Will America?

Donald Trump "Grab by the 'Pussy Tape": Melania Trump Responds ;"The words my husband used are extremely unacceptable and very offensive to me,"

MELANIA TRUMP RESPONDS: Extremely unacceptable and very offensive to me'


Melania Trump and Bill Clinton. Patrick Semansky/AP

Melania Trump, the wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, responded Saturday to the shocking leaked 2005 recording of her husband boasting about being able to "grab" women "by the p---y" because "when you're a star they let you do it."

The recording of Trump, which was picked up by a hot mic andpublished by The Washington Post on Friday, came from an interaction between Trump and television personality Billy Bush. In addition to his comments about grabbing women "by the p---y," Trump made a litany of other sexually suggestive remarks.

According to The Post, the recording came several months after he married Melania, his third wife.

"The words my husband used are extremely unacceptable and very offensive to me," she said in the statement. "This does not represent the man that I know."

"He has the heart and mind of a leader," she continued. "I hope people will accept his apology, as I have, and focus on the important issues facing our nation and the world."


Trump addressed the matter in a Friday statement, in which he called the comments "locker room banter" and added that former President Bill Clinton has said "far worse to me on the golf course."

That was later followed by a late-night video address, offering a brief apology and saying he looked forward to the Sunday night presidential debate. He posted a tweet Saturday morning to call the past day "certainly ... interesting."

Almost immediately, Trump came under fire from those on both sides of the aisle — as many top Republicans either strongly condemned the comments or unendorsed the Manhattan billionaire altogether.

Donald Trump 's Family Values ....Wife(s) yes plural Wallfowers... barefoot pregnant in the kitchen behind a padloock. Daughters on pedestal

Why Men Want to Marry Melanias and Raise Ivankas



Ivanka and Melania Trump at a presidential debate in South Carolina. CreditEric Thayer for The New York Times

You can tell a lot about a person by whom they choose to marry. As the nominees selected at this week’s Republican National Convention and next week’s Democratic one take the stage along with their family members, they will display not only stark policy differences, but also two competing views of marriage, kin and the role of women in society. What we saw from Republicans: Men who want their wives at home while they celebrate the professional successes of their daughters.

The Republican Party has long praised traditional family values and intrinsic differences between men and women, while Democrats emphasize egalitarianism and expanding opportunities for women and girls. Few candidates in recent history have embodied those dissimilarities in such sharp relief as Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump. On Monday night, Mr. Trump’s wife, Melania, spoke about her husband and their family values. The speech was, like the woman herself, fairly unobjectionable on its face, with platitudes about family and country, patriotism and hard work. Like much of the Trump image, though, the shiny veneer hid shoddy construction: The very same parts of the speech that lauded integrity, hard work and honesty were lifted almost word for word from Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech.it seems not even purported Trump family values are authentic. To borrow from Mr. Trump: sad.

One traditional value Mr. Trump does hew to: wanting an old-fashioned wife but a modern, professional daughter. On Thursday, convention-goers heard from the elder Trump daughter, Ivanka, a successful businesswoman whose feminism-tinged speech about the gender wage gap and affordable child care sounded less like any policy positions ever pushed by Mr. Trump and more like her book-in-progress, “Women Who Work.” They also witnessed how the Trump family embodies a very old sexist hypocrisy: Men who want one thing for their wives and another for their children.

While Trump family values may not be particularly honorable, they are perversely traditional. Melania Trump told the R.N.C. audience that “Donald is intensely loyal to family,” a claim belied by his own marital history — she is wife No. 3, and No. 2 was the woman with whom he cheated on No 1. Mr. Trump has children with three different women; he blames giving his wife too much responsibility in his business for his first divorce, and his wife’s wanting him to spend too much time at home with her and their daughter for his second.

The qualities Mr. Trump seeks in his romantic partners are remarkably retro. Melania Trump is a former model with her own QVC jewelry line and skin care brand who emphasizes that her role as a mother comes before all else; Mr. Trump has spoken disparagingly of working women, does little in the way of child care, and expects women to be moreaesthetically appealing than intellectually substantive. “We know our roles,” his wife has said. “I didn’t want him to change the diapers or put Barron to bed.” Mr. Trump agrees: “I won’t do anything” to take care of the children, he toldHoward Stern in 2005. “I’ll supply funds and she’ll take care of the kids.” By contrast, Mr. Trump took out a campaign ad featuring Ivanka, and said of her: “I am so proud of Ivanka. She is a terrific person, a devoted mother and an exceptional entrepreneur.”It can feel unfair to criticize political spouses, who are often dragged into the spotlight only because of whom they married. Mr. Trump, though, is running for office, making his treatment of women — personal and political — as relevant as his treatment of his employees or business partners. The distinctions between the Clinton marriage and the Trumps’ reflect an uncomfortable evolution also happening in homes across the United States. In the past half-century, American women have undergone a transformation in roles, and married couples now look a lot more like the Clintons — or Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner — than whatever traditional view of women and home life that Mr. Trump holds: Most women work outside the home full time, and men increasingly marry women who are their educational and professional equals.

But the public remains deeply ambivalent about these shifts. Today, 40 percent of women are their family’s primary breadwinners, and nearly 80 percent of Americans agree that women should not return to traditional roles in society. A third still say it’s best for small children if Mom doesn’t work at all. The Republican Party has particularly struggled to accept this new model, and still pushes back on women’s progress by opposing policies that would help women work and plan their families: things like federally funded child care, paid parental leave and access to birth control. Ivanka Trump’s speech on Thursday was closer to a laundry list of the very policies Democrats have promoted and Republicans have tried to block.Continue reading the main story

And like Mr. Trump praising his daughter’s business acumen, men want different things in their wives than in their daughters. Changing gender roles look less threatening when it’s their children who benefit. According to a survey published by Maria Shriver’s Shriver Report, American men listed “intelligence” as the top quality they valued in both a wife and a daughter, but then the responses split: More men said they wanted their wives to be attractive and sweet than said the same about their female children. For daughters, men ranked being independent, strong and principled as more important qualities than those same characteristics in wives. Two-thirds of men want an independent daughter, but only one in three wants an independent wife. Fourteen percent of men said they wanted a wife who was a homemaker; just 5 percent said the same about their daughters.

This dynamic seems to play out in the Trump family: Mr. Trump’s wife is professionally attractive, anecdotally nice and by her own telling fairly traditional, while his elder daughter is a strong, independent and well-educated businesswoman who was mentored by her father and rose to prominence inside his companies. Ivanka has been more publicly involved in the campaign than her stepmother, serving as something of a surrogate spouse to Mr. Trump bydefending his treatment of women and emphasizing his good character. And it was Ivanka, not Melania Trump, who not only introduced Mr. Trump as the Republican Party nominee on Thursday night, but highlighted what he would do in office to help women.

This female empowerment narrative — of the daughter, not the wife — is one Americans are more ready to accept. A man who says he’s never changed a diaper and is on his third marriage to a former model may appeal to a resentful male minority, but will look unfamiliar and unappealing in much of the country. A successful child, though — that’s relatable and desirable. When men have daughters, their attitudes shift and they begin to adhere less stringently to traditional gender roles; no similar effect happens to mothers of girls. Fathers of daughters are also more likely to support reproductive rights than men who don’t have girls.

Men have often given their female offspring more opportunities than their female partners, perhaps seeing their children as extensions of themselves. Even today, many men find themselves newly appalled at sexism after having a girl, a reaction apparently not stoked by being born of a woman, married to a woman or simply seeing women as human. In our reluctantly feminist America, one question this election poses is whether we’ve evolved enough to value women as individuals instead of assessing them relationally, as an attractive wife supporting her husband or as a high-achieving daughter reflecting a flattering light back on her parents.

It’s a question Mr. Trump has addressed in his personal life. His answer isn’t very pretty.

Melania Trump least popular spouse since 1988

Melania Trump Is One Of The Least Popular Spouses Of A Nominee Since 1988



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Melania Trump, wife of Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, delivers a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.




It’s difficult to cover campaign stories involving candidate spouses. Are they political combatants? Bystanders? A mix of both? But the story of this convention right now is Melania Trump. Last night, she gave a speech at the Republican National Convention that in some portions mirrored Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. I have no idea how much effect, if any, accusations of plagiarism will have on the campaign, but it’s clear that Melania Trump is already one of the least popular nominee spouses since 1988.

According to Gallup, Melania Trump has just a 28 percent favorable rating compared to a 32 percent unfavorable rating. That means her net favorability rating is -4 percentage points. That’s lower than Bill Clinton’s net favorability, which is +6 percentage points, according to a recent CNN/ORC survey. It’s also lower than the net favorability of every presidential nominee’s spouse in every final campaign poll that asked the question since 1988.

Melania Trump isn’t popular, but it may not matter

YEAR	SPOUSE	NET FAVORABILITY	SPOUSE WON
1992	Barbara Bush	+62
2004	Laura Bush	+57	✓
2000	Tipper Gore	+47
2012	Michelle Obama	+44	✓
2000	Laura Bush	+39	✓
1988	Barbara Bush	+37	✓
1996	Elizabeth Dole	+34
1988	Kitty Dukakis	+31
2008	Michelle Obama	+29	✓
2008	Cindy McCain	+21
2012	Ann Romney	+21
1992	Hillary Clinton	+14	✓
1996	Hillary Clinton	+6	✓
2016	Bill Clinton	+6	—
2004	Teresa Kerry	-2
2016	Melania Trump	-4	—

Data for elections prior to 2016 comes from the final poll taken of spouse popularity during the campaign.

SOURCE: CNN / ROPER CENTER

Of course, having a popular spouse is no guarantee of winning an election. Barbara Bush, in 1992, was the most popular spouse from 1988 to the present, and her husband, George H.W. Bush, went on to lose that election. Moreover, being an unpopular spouse isn’t a guarantee that you’re going to lose an election, either. Hillary Clinton had the second-lowest net favorability of any spouse of a nominee in 1996, and Bill Clinton easily won re-election. John Kerry nearly won the 2004 election despite his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, being the only spouse with a net negative favorability rating at the end of the campaign since 1988.

God Save America from Donny T....What Trump's marriages may have in common with ours Hell Nothing.... Trump is a chauvinist,sexist,anti feminist along with horrific racist, suffers from terminal Islamophobia and supports Martine Le Penn ( her fathers daughter )of the Holocaust Solution to the Islam = ISIS and Donny T concept of democracy is Me, Mtself . I Donald Trump Autocracy..... He Capital Hill and Joint Chief of sStaff... anyour sere services are no longer require.... who shall I nuke today.... why was I stacked and racked over London last week... what the hell lets nuke Elizabeth R 's England

God Save America from Donny T....What Trump's marriages may have in common with ours Hell Nothing.... Trump is a chauvinist,sexist,anti feminist along with horrific racist, suffers from terminal Islamophobia and supports Martine Le Pen ( her fathers daughter )of the Holocaust Solution to the Islam = ISIS =Muslim Camel Keepers . Donny T concept of dDemocracy is Me, Myself , I, Donald Trump Autocracy..... Capital Hill and Joint Chief of Staff... your services are no longer required.... who shall I nuke today.... why was I stacked and racked over London last week... what the hell lets nuke Elizabeth R 's Capital and for good measure England and Europe.

I hesitate to view the behavior of Donald Trump as a reflection of anything other than the behavior of Donald Trump.

His story — the "small loan" from his father, the string of private mansions, the reality TV stint — is so completely unrecognizable to most of us that it's difficult to imagine his life represents our lives in any real way.

But a column in Thursday's New York Times by Jill Filipovic looks at Donald Trump, family man, and draws some fascinating conclusions about his — and our — competing views of a woman's role in society.

In "Why men want to marry Melanias and raise Ivankas," Filipovic argues that the Trumps embody a family dynamic that looks all too familiar: "Men who want one thing for their wives and another for their children."

"Men have often given their female offspring more opportunities than their female partners," Filipovic writes, "perhaps seeing their children as extensions of themselves."

Ivanka Trump, Trump's older daughter, is scheduled to speak Thursday at the Republican National Convention. She's been proudly portrayed by Trump and his campaign as a successful entrepreneur, and she's writing a book called "Women Who Work."

But Trump has been less supportive of his wives working. He told ABC News his marriage to Ivana (Ivanka's mother) failed when Ivana started to work outside the home. "I have days where I think it's great," he said. "And I have days where, if I come home — and I don't want to sound too much like a chauvinist — but when I come home and dinner's not ready, I go through the roof."

He once told Howard Stern: "I won't do anything (to take care of the children.) I'll supply funds, and she'll take care of the kids," Filipovic points out.

So what does this have to do with the rest of us?

"Like Mr. Trump praising his daughter's business acumen, men want different things in their wives than in their daughters," Filipovic writes. "Changing gender roles look less threatening when it's their children who benefit."

According to a Shriver Report survey, she writes, two-thirds of men want an independent daughter, but only one in three want an independent wife. Fourteen percent of men said they wanted a wife who was a homemaker, and just 5 percent said the same about their daughters.

Sometimes this dynamic is less overt. In far too many families, the bulk of the domestic responsibilities of keeping a household running fall to the wife, whether she's working or not.

On an average day, 19 percent of men do housework (cleaning, laundry, etc.), compared with 49 percent of women, according to Time Use Survey data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sixty-eight percent of women spent time on meal prep or cleanup, while 42 percent of men did. For families with kids under 6, the data show, women spent one hour providing physical care to children, while men spent 26 minutes providing physical care.

Those figures reflect our priorities in ways we may not admit to out loud. And they absolutely affect women's career success. As Sheryl Sandberg pointed out in "Lean In," when Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter was asked what men can do to advance women's leadership, she answered: "the laundry."

Filipovic's column is well worth your time — whether it forces you to examine unequal dynamics in your own home or inspires a moment of gratitude for happily equal ones.

"In our reluctantly feminist America," Filipovic writes, "one question this election poses is whether we've evolved enough to value women as individuals instead of assessing them relationally, as an attractive wife supporting her husband or as a high-achieving daughter reflecting a flattering light back on her parents."

Good questions to ask about our own families as well.