What a week. Doesn’t it already feel like Harry and Meghan announced their engagement 100 years ago?

After starting Monday off on such a happy note, the news cycles that followed have continued to focus on the sexual misconduct reckoning that started with Harvey Weinstein and show no signs of slowing. It’s important, obviously, and I hope it continues. But as a woman, it also weighs heavily on my spirit.

Never did I think the pick-me-up I so desperately needed would come in the form of a campaign ad from Dana Nessel, who is running for Attorney General in Michigan. But in 2017, up is down and anything is possible. I know what you’re thinking because I was thinking it too: “2018 campaign ads already? The midterms are so important but can’t we at least get through the holidays first?!?” But that’s just because you haven’t seen Nessel’s badass ad yet.

She opens by commenting that if recent news has taught us anything, it’s that more women are needed in office before launching into some 2017 real talk: “Who can you trust to not show you their penis in a professional setting? Is it the candidate who doesn’t have a penis? I’d say so.” This is where Dana Nessel became one of my new favorite people. She cemented her slot by going on to argue that there is nothing wrong with what could become an all-female Democratic ticket for major state offices. PS: Go Michigan!

Nessel then lays out what she will not do: Sexually harass her staff, tolerate sexual harassment in your workplace, walk around in a half-open bathrobe, use tax dollars to silence victims, or join right-wing lawsuits that make it harder to get health insurance.

And the kicker? She totally nails that, too. “Yes, I’m a woman. That’s not a liability, that’s an asset.”

Preach, Dana. Preach.

Watch the entire ad here:

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