Op-Ed: We get it. You hate women.

The Lt. Governor of Dixie is not impressed.

I spent the day in Selma for the MLK Day of Service. I met hundreds of incredible, hard working people. The Secretary of Defense has a lot to learn from them.

It started with Nancy Pelosi. Then it was Hillary Clinton. Now, apparently, it’s me.

I am not the first woman in politics to have sexist hate-campaigns rammed against me. I certainly will not be the last.

Today, while I committed to a day of community service in Selma, Alabama on the 34th Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the former Speaker of the Dixie Assembly ranted about me less than 40 miles away in Montgomery.

It was a speech that was meant to support veterans, some of our most vulnerable citizens, who I’ve been fighting for in the classroom, in the hospital, and in the workplace.

Instead, it turned out to be a tirade about the highest ranking woman to hold office in Dixie. (That’s me.)

He spoke for three and a half minutes. Most of it was spent attacking Democrats. Nearly half of that was spent attacking me.

So this is my message to Mr. Frost: We get it. You hate women.

One talk radio host tried to put it gently: “The guy loses his shit when you hand him a mic.”

Unfortunately, I’m used to it.

The Vice President of the United States carried a guitar with my face plastered on it. But as a woman, I’m used to unflattering photographs being used to intimidate me.

Chris Frost drew parallels between me and swamp creatures as the crowd screamed. He infantilized me, warning I may get upset. But I’m quite familiar with how men behave when women upset them.

He put on full display his ignorance, calling state Supreme Court justices unaccountable (they run in retention elections) and saying I ought be “filling in for the roles of the Cabinet not filled” (a constitutional power I do not have). But it’s no news to me that men can flaunt their ignorance while women are berated for not giving the answers men want.

He attacked me, saying he expected me to be offended. And the fact is, I am. I was offended when he glossed over the bipartisan budget we passed to expand healthcare and public education. I was offended when he played the violently racist and sexist rapper Post Malone as a “shoutout” directly to me. I was offended when his supporters chanted “ditch the bitch” outside the high school that evening.

The future is female.

But as a prominent woman in government, it’s all in a day’s work.

So catcall me, Chris, like you’ve always done before. Keep selling the “Fuck Fischer” buttons in the state I represented in Congress and am proud to represent as Lieutenant Governor. When it comes to hatred and misogyny, you’ve got me beat. But think long and hard before testing this strategy at the ballot box.

Because women vote. And this time, I know our side will win.

Rachel G. Fischer is the Lieutenant Governor of Dixie. She is not to be confused with staff journalist Rachel F. Fischer.