“'Your body, my choice!' 'Repeal the 19th amendment!' 'Get back in the kitchen!' These cries have been developed and amplified following the US election.

William Lindsey :toad:

“'Your body, my choice!' 'Repeal the 19th amendment!' 'Get back in the kitchen!' These cries have been developed and amplified following the US election. But they are hardly an expression of a newfound, de novo sentiment, nor one that is geo-culturally restricted. American boys and men are saying the quiet part out loud now, a reflection of their emboldening."

~ Kate Manne

#women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #Republicans #Trump
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What One Mass Rape Case Shows about the Depth of Rape Culture

So many men were willing to rape a woman. And not one was willing to try to stop it.

(katemanne.substack.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"In other words, their sense of entitlement to control women is just becoming more blatant: otherwise the election would not have gone Trump’s way in the first place."

Corporate media are waxing poetic on the reported increasing interest of young American men in religion — without, curiously, ever noting that this same increased interest in religion among young men is evident in some Islamic cultures: because misogyny.

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

As Mary Contreras notes, all the white male bros from Bernie Sanders to James Carville who are using the election to lambast the Democrats — yet again, tired old meme — for losing the working class are talking very specifically about the WHITE MALE working class.

Who are by no means the working class tout court — but some folks count and others don't, right?

#Democrats #WorkingClass #race #gender #BernieSanders
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Democrats’ Policies Help Americans. The Right Wing Echo-Chamber Drowned Them Out - Dame Magazine

I’ve had a job since I was 14 years old. I’ve spent most of it working in the service industry. I have always been part of the working class here in America. The characteristics of the working class that apply to me are: food and beverage service, low to moderate income, and tipped hourly wages.

Dame Magazine - (www.damemagazine.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"All of these men conveniently forgot the Democratic Party hasn’t garnered a majority of white voters, male or female, since 1964 when President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Texas Democrat, signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law."

#Democrats #WorkingClass #race #gender #BernieSanders
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William Lindsey :toad:

"The majority of white voters were so aggrieved that Black voters had protections against discrimination and access to the ballot box, that they took their ballots and went home to the Republican Party, where they’ve remained for over 60 years."

The solution, according to Contreras? It's clearly NOT that B. Sanders and J. Carville represent the future of the Democratic party. Center more minority voices: yesterday rather than today.

#Democrats #WorkingClass #race #gender #BernieSanders
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump kept his coalition together by stoking shared grievances. In this way, his presidential bid represented a type of inverted identity politics. He didn’t campaign on making life better for certain identity groups. He campaigned by mobilizing people against ones they loathe and fear."

~ Anna Gifty

#Democrats #Republicans #WorkingClass #race #gender #CultureWar #immigrants #misogyny #trans
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Trump ran on identity politics and won

He united voters around shared grievances, not plans to solve their problems.

(www.publicnotice.co)

William Lindsey :toad:

"The MAGA playbook will remain the same: dividing, conquering, and pitting one group against another. It’s a terrible way to run the country, but as Trump just demonstrated, it’s still an effective way to win elections."

#Democrats #Republicans #WorkingClass #race #gender #CultureWar #immigrants #misogyny #trans
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peachfront

@wdlindsy

i don't even understand how they could have forgotten it

but obviously they did since

2024 played out the exact same way as 1968, demonize a good & decent if not well-spoken man as a killer & force him to drop out & surrender the incumbent advantage

then it's easy to install the corrupt racist grifter who openly lies & not very well, tricky dick's a f'n sweaty liar but it doesn't matter because racists hate truth & will happily lose any freedom to keep down those they hate

peachfront

@wdlindsy

this!!!!

we will never win the white male bro vote because the white male bro vote hates women & always will

their holy books teach misogyny & our country literally gives their preachers of hate a tax exemption for doing so!

nothing changes while we cater to ancient lies abt how some (but always women) are inferior to others

lolonurse

@wdlindsy
Good article!

Steve Felten

@wdlindsy Incels are incapable of a mutually acceptable relationship, so theocracy enforces “traditional” roles.

William Lindsey :toad:

@stevefelten Institutionally, major world religions also tend to be in the hands of men, who claim unique prerogatives to interpret holy books and sacred symbols and control religious institutions. Religious institutions in that way become a bastion of male privilege even when their own teachings in key respects often challenge patriarchal ideas.

William Lindsey :toad:

@lolonurse I thought so, too — glad you found it worthwhile.

William Lindsey :toad:

@peachfront Well-stated. I very much agree.

William Lindsey :toad:

@peachfront Yes, I agree. I suspect they only pretend to have forgotten.

Teedi P.

@wdlindsy

Sad that it's true. Finding and sowing division has always worked quicker and more effectively than finding common ground and finding our similarities.

George Carlin said it so often: keep the lower and middle classes fighting each other while the upper classes go laughing to the bank. Sucks that we're so good at dwelling on the negatives and stay in their camp while being wary of the positives.

William Lindsey :toad:

@CaffeinatedBookDragon Yes, you're very right. Economic elites have been very adroit about sowing seeds of social division, instilling fear, creating bogymen — all to enable them more effectively to pick all of our pockets.