"The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Afghanistan’s Taliban offered its congratulations to the American people for 'not handing leadership of their great country to a woman.'”

William Lindsey :toad:

@HeatherTX I'm really sorry to hear that — and I can fully understand. The night of his re-election, I lay in bed trying to sleep and didn't fall asleep the entire night. I've had repeated nights like that since the election. It's exhausting, dealing with the shock of knowing what some of us fully intend to do to others of us, given power.

William Lindsey :toad:

“There was perhaps no clearer measure of white solidarity than the actions of white women in 2016. The majority of them — 53 percent — disregarded the common needs of women and went against a fellow white woman to vote with their power trait, the white side of their identities to which Trump appealed, rather than help an experienced woman, and themselves, make history.”

~ Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, p. 328

#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
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William Lindsey :toad:

“Fascist opposition to gender studies, in particular, flows from its patriarchal ideology. National Socialism targeted women’s movements and feminism generally; for the Nazis, feminism was a Jewish conspiracy to destroy fertility among Aryan women.”

~ Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, p. 43).

#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
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Paxil

@wdlindsy 100% about religion they are #Trump's base it won't change until their daughters or granddaughters get raped or die of sepsis.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Absent an understanding of the role of Southern white sexism in this realignment, racism and religiosity read as two chapters of separate books. They were and are an ensemble cast in the same story."

~ Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields, The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics, p. 9

#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
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William Lindsey :toad:

"What started as a defense of traditional gender roles morphed into an offensive drive for Christian nationalism, in part sparked by southern, white, primarily Christian women who demonstrated against their own liberation."

~ Ibid., p. 10

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William Lindsey :toad:

“In 2016, the idea of a female president was not an abstraction, but a real possibility. In the end, whites who live in the South, particularly white women, played a big part in Hillary Clinton's loss.”

~ Ibid., p. 207

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William Lindsey :toad:

"Throughout the world at the present day, the most easily heard tone in religion (not just Christianity) is of a generally angry conservatism. Why? I would hazard that the anger centres on a profound shift in gender roles which have traditionally been given a religious significance and validated by religious traditions."

~ Diarmaid MacCulloch, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, pp. 990-1

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William Lindsey :toad:

@Paxil Even then, I wonder. See Monica Potts' excellent book The Forgotten Girls on how women in the solid-red Southern evangelical-dominated states choose to vote against their interests and the interests of their daughters as they reinforce male control that harms them and their daughters.

Paxil

@wdlindsy Born and raised there I know all about it.

@wdlindsy

Always find it weird, or just outright dumb, that when women decide to have fewer children it is referred to as a decline in the fertility rate.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Paxil Nothing like growing up in that environment to teach us some hard lessons about who many of us really are and what many of us really want, is there?

William Lindsey :toad:

@the5thColumnist Yes — and that hysteria on the part of men is usually focused on the choice of white women, in particular, to have fewer children.

lupus_blackfur

@wdlindsy

Been waiting since the election for someone to lay these truths bare for all to see.

Seems blatantly obvious to the casual observer and yet "analysts" everywhere have simply refused to mention.

Fear? I dunno...

AndyGER :verified_coffee:

@wdlindsy The radical Islam is called Islamism. So how do we call the radical Christians?! Those who voted for Trump and the Republicans, who are far right fascists …

acm

@wdlindsy NYT opinion piece right after the election talked convincingly about "hegemonic masculinity"...

Paxil

@wdlindsy The Southern Baptist and Evangelical churches are nothing but white political arms of the #Republican party the United Methodists seem to be a bit more empathetic to certain demographics but still incredibly segregated. I grew up #Jewish there wasn’t great they abused #black folk though.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Paxil Yes, I agree. I grew up Southern Baptist with two Methodist grandfathers, so saw both denominations up close as I was growing up. The Southern Baptist Convention is, just as you say, now an arm of the Republican party. My experience teaching and doing administrative work at two Methodist colleges/universities allowed me to see that group up closer than ever, and I find it very disappointing. Lots of nice, smiling talk about loving others, but cheap talk not matched by costly walk.

William Lindsey :toad:

@acm_redfox A very good phrase for what we're seeing as a central driving force of political life right now.

William Lindsey :toad:

@andreas_heitmann Some people have in recent years used the label "Christianists."