What a year. When legend after legend started dropping like flies I mourned; Bowie, Rickman, Wogan, Prince. The entertainment industry would never look the same again. Then June. Brexit. A blonde muppet and a beer lout celebrating victory, claiming to have ‘Made Britain Great Again’. And now. Another blonde muppet celebrating victory. ‘Making America Great’.
Walls to ‘protect’ against foreigners. The danger is all too often in one’s own back yard. It’s not the hardworking ‘others’ but the bigoted, racist, xenophobic arseholes who view a different skin tone with contempt. The misogynistic sexual deviants who pride themselves on their conquests and the perceived quality of their prey.
Slow clap America. Slow clap Britain. Bowie was far from the worst that was to happen this year.
“Let’s regain control over our borders” forces thousands upon thousands of desperate people to do desperate things. Children fleeing as The Jungle was torn down, untraceable and unaccounted for, through fear. Bodies washed up on shores. Families divided forever. “If they’re so desperate then how come they had iPhones back home” It could happen to us, Apple won’t protect you from terrorism, dictatorships, civil war, world war.
Build walls, stop people with different coloured skin getting in. Divide. Build walls and build fear. Ignorance. Guns don’t kill people. They just give those firing them the ability to kill people. Jo Cox.
Bowie, Rickman, Brexit, Trump.
Entertainment loses some of its most prolific and wonderful talents. Humanity loses some of its most valuable and intrinsically vital qualities.
And in my beautiful home, with my beautiful family by my side, I feel detached and yet completely overwhelmed. I feel fearful of my children growing up in a world where walls and sexual abuse create power, where those in the most dire need die and those with the most money and the least humanity thrive.
I can’t stop whatever chain of events may come as a result of the voting decisions that have been made this year. All I can do, with Phil, is raise our children with morals and values that reflect the good that does still remain in this fractured world. Raise them to know that acceptance is right and sexual abuse is wrong. That we shouldn’t judge by race or gender or sexuality or looks but by character. Is the person standing before me a good person with good values? They will follow where Phil and I lead, so we will take their hands and guide them to the best of our abilities.
Kate | Lesbemums 9th November 2016 at 7:37 am
I didn’t want to wake up this morning (not in a horrid way, obviously). I didn’t want to read what deep down I knew would happen.
HOW has the world become like this? I’m in complete shock. I have no words.
I’m concerned. I’m angry. I’m scared.
What sort of world am I bringing T into. How can I possibly explain there is good in the world when stuff like this happens?
Everything hurts right now.
Rach 9th November 2016 at 9:21 am
This line is everything:
Entertainment loses some of its most prolific and wonderful talents. Humanity loses some of its most valuable and intrinsically vital qualities.
#bestandworst
The Tale of Mummyhood 9th November 2016 at 9:53 am
A crazy outcome. And as for Rickman, I’m still in mourning :(.
#BestandWorst
Sarah Howe 9th November 2016 at 4:35 pm
I’m shocked but not shocked. I think America has very different values and beliefs to a lot of us and they think in a different way. Privatised healthcare and guns?? Not really the American dream. I tend not to get too upset about stuff like this really and would rather wait and see what happens. Fingers crossed some of his ridiculous policies will never become true!! Hope you feel better soon and thanks for sharing with #bestandworst xx
Elizabeth 10th November 2016 at 6:49 am
It’s a scary world we live in now. I genuinely fear for my children’s futures. Anything can happen.
Emma 10th November 2016 at 9:09 am
Children are the future, so hopefully if we as parents raise them with good values, morals and an understanding of kindness, they will be able to create a kinder, less divided world when it is their turn to shape it.
Sarah - let them be small 10th November 2016 at 8:33 pm
it’s does feel very overwhelming and like we are on the cusp of some huge change.
it all feels a bit helpless x
Gill C 10th November 2016 at 9:11 pm
This year has been dreadful. Still not over Brexit. And oh god, Donald Trump…still too awful to contemplate…
Lyndsey O'Halloran 10th November 2016 at 10:51 pm
This has been a really tough year for many reasons hasn’t it. We still have 2 months left too!
Talya 11th November 2016 at 2:10 pm
Every year seems to get crazier and crazier but this has to be one of the craziest on record in my book. It feels like world has tipped onto a very strange axis indeed.
clairejustine 12th November 2016 at 7:46 am
So many sad things happen in the world, sometimes I wish I could wrap my family up in cotton wool and move to a little island
It ha been a strange 2016 for lots of things hasn’t it 
Fashion and Style Police 13th November 2016 at 9:33 am
I am shocked but not shocked at the same time. I saw this happening kind of. Think both candidates had issues.
Mrs TeePot 13th November 2016 at 5:01 pm
It has been an awful year, my heart has broken for the state of the world, for what humans are returning to. I’m angry, I’m sad, but I’m determined to do what I can to fight for the good that’s left in the world.
Anosa 14th November 2016 at 12:03 am
2016 has been a year in history that will probably not want to talk about. I like to think everything for a reasons but I am at loss right now