"The 2024 election is in part about whether women can be free and equal citizens of this republic.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"THE 'GENDER GAP' MATH IS UNDER-APPRECIATED in coverage of the race. More women will likely show up to vote than they did in 2020, and they will be supporting Harris more than they did Biden four years ago. Trump may be making gains with men. But he’s going to have to turn out a lot more of them if he wants to keep up."

#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
/15

It’s the Gender Gap, Stupid!

Why that’s good for Kamala Harris.

(www.thebulwark.com)

[oddhack@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy it resonates, all right. By making me want to see a US government run entirely by Black women for the next 8 years or so. But I'll settle for a Black woman as President, and a House and Senate actually controlled by Democrats and voting for Democratic priorities.

[tizan@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Forgetting surveys...early voting is showing a gender gap of 10% in GA, NC, MI etc...GA early voting is over today. So unless Tuesday is overwhelmingly male voters the gap is going to be larger than in 2020 which was around 3.5%. Now i cannot imagine that the extra number of female voters are breaking evenly. If i am correct...both NC and GA will be called early in the night. I am willing to bet a beer or a chocolate on this logic.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@tizan Thank you for that report about the early-voting figures and what they may mean. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and trying to hold onto hope.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@oddhack I'm with you, 100%.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@UncleCharlieA The grossest kind of racist guy, I'd say.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mastodonmigration Thank you!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Thanks to Mastodon Migration for providing a link to the ad mentioned in /8 above. If you click the link below, you'll find the ad embedded in the posting.

#Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny
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https://toad.social/@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online/113409154402766593

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Awoke Touché. Unless Trump means by protection placing "rebellious" women in front of firing squads!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Rana You're absolutely right.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@sisu42 Yes, there are.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Arqtec Well-summed up.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse A good point. That hadn't occurred to me, but you're right.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@KatLS That tracks, for sure. Laws are for some people, not others, it seems.

[piousunyn@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy Great add, thought you where recommending Mastodonmigration at first. Find as of late Universodon spotty in service, but seems hard to move. Hell one can start over with a clean slate. Will miss my followers though.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Piousunyn I do definitely recommend @mastodonmigration.

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
I wonder how many Stepford wives and zombies would have voted differently, had they heard his pronouncement first. But I'm still not letting go of my furtive optimism.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse Furtive optimism is such a good phrase here. I am trying to hold on to that furtive thing myself.

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
And I'm clinging to the optimism part. If I read too much, or watch TV too much, I become terrified (or nauseous), so I'm trying to limit exposure. Hell, even Rachel looked haggard on Monday night.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse I appreciate very much your encouragement (and support) to be optimistic. I'm by nature inclined to be a glass half-empty kind of person. Or maybe it's not nature and the result of having grown up in a household headed by two alcoholic parents who were just, I have to say with all due respect for them not equipped or fit to raise children. Hope and optimism are a struggle for me, but I keep struggling! I appreciate you.