The April 9 issue of Time magazine carried large print at the start of its section "The View." The headline on the article was "Stormy Daniels: underestimated warrior." Susanna Schrobsdorff gushed in fingernail-sized type:
"As numb as we have become to the shock and ugh of the Trump presidency, here’s one thing we didn’t foresee: Stormy Daniels, porn star, director, entrepreneur and fiercely funny tweeter might just be the woman that the resistance needs."
By that, she means Stormy could be the weapon to tear down Trump's presidency. Time declared that Stormy Daniels won no matter what happens next in the legal battles. Apparently, she could be fined millions of dollars for violating her non-disclosure agreement, and she's still a huge winner:
Regardless of the legal outcome, Daniels has in many ways already won. In her 60 Minutes interview, she calmly, articulately dismantled Trump’s macho armor in a way that an army of feminists hasn’t been able to. Think of it: a President who turns even his relationships with world leaders into a virility contest about whose button is bigger had to watch a woman who has sex for a living tell 22 million viewers that she didn’t want to have sex with him.
It's not surprising a young woman wouldn't want to have sex with an old man....but on CBS, she said she did anyway, because she thought it might be a "business deal." The porn star has become a heroine to "women," not just Trump-hating women, all women:
On Twitter, Daniels is anything but quiet. She not only discusses her case, but also promotes her subscription-only videos and battles sexist trolls with wit and a kind of fierce pride that a lot of women find inspiring. If someone calls her a whore, she says thank you. She has the world’s best comebacks to questions about her breasts. And she admonishes anyone who calls her a victim, because she says it diminishes real victims. Women praise her courage and find unexpected solidarity with her, and have tweeted things like, “Whether you’re an adult film star or a teacher or whatever, if you’re a woman, you’ll be called a whore one day.”
Unsurprisingly, the "unexpected solidarity" comes from a woman whose Twitter bio reads (her caps) "HILLARY VOTER."
