"At a rally this evening near Green Bay, Wisconsin, Trump said his team had advised him to stop talking about how he was going to protect women by ending crime and making sure they don’t have to be 'thinking about abortion.”'

Martijn Vos

Why are American voting booths so tiny? Dutch ones are big. You enter them and close the curtain behind you. Voting secrecy is taken seriously here, but not in the US with those tiny booths.

Urzl

@wdlindsy It's *always* "jobs" , isn't it? They can pretend it's *economic* by saying "job" instead of "role".

American men, especially white ones, think their role defines them and so their anxiety is about women, PoC, trans people, queer people, or any other non-cishet white man occupying their "rightful" roles.

In general, men haven't built a stable sense of self that's not reliant on external validation.

Alexander Karn

@wdlindsy

"Whether they like it or not..."

In other words, autocracy not democracy.

Power not consent.

William Lindsey :toad:

@xankarn Well-stated. Exactly: the very definition of autocracy, power not consent.

William Lindsey :toad:

@gooba42 Yes, a good point. So much of their furor against women who have struggled over years to gain some autonomy is couched in pretend concern about men losing jobs. But it's really all about control. And as you say, traditional definitions of masculinity don't produce stable, well-rounded men with moral and intellectual depth.

William Lindsey :toad:

@mcv @msbellows @the5thColumnist I think the design of voting booths varies from places to place. At the station at which I vote, there are screens separating the voter from everyone else, so no one can see how you vote. I've voted in places where you actually step inside a booth and draw a curtain, too.

William Lindsey :toad:

@katrinakatrinka Yes. Very well-noted.

William Lindsey :toad:

@bubbajet @inthehands Well-noted and well-stated. I agree.

William Lindsey :toad:

@FOxyShelby I agree. Timothy Burke writes thoughtful, well-informed essays -- always substantive.

William Lindsey :toad:

@ferricoxide You'll have to help me understand your point. What the commentators in the thread are saying is awful? Or what they're critiquing is awful?

William Lindsey :toad:

@buermann You'll have to help me understand what "it" is.

William Lindsey :toad:

@berniethewordsmith Thanks for the link. I had not seen this. They produce good video commentary.

William Lindsey :toad:

@FinalOverdrive I suspect Rebecca Solnit knows quite a bit about the history of feminism and the arguments for abolishing the institution of marriage, don't you?

William Lindsey :toad:

@darwinwoodka Amen.

William Lindsey :toad:

@mastodonmigration Yes, it would, for sure.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Itssaggy Could be. I think, too, that this is a proactive way to address the fact that, after the Supremes handed down their abominable Dobbs decision, many women are choosing to cast their votes in opposition to that decision and the party that brought it to us.

ghost boomann

@wdlindsy

The Jessie Waters segment served as a good reminder for why lying to your husband about your vote might be a good idea.

William Lindsey :toad:

@econads See this previous posting and the Guardian article linked on that very point.

William Lindsey :toad: (@[email protected])

Alaina Demopoulos points to Jamisen Casey, a 21-year-old student in California who is registered to vote in her home state of Tennessee, On Tik Tok, she says i a video, “My absentee ballot on its way home to cancel out my ex boyfriend’s vote." The video shows her dancing with her mail-in ballot in hand. #Trump #Republicans #gender #women #abortion #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #misogyny /6 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/women-canceling-out-men-votes-trump-harris

toad.social (toad.social)

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Some of what was said in the thread (and in the MAGA community more-broadly) smacks of having no self-confidence. I was speculating that maybe some of the shittiness on display would be prevented if those people had been raised to be more self-confident.

William Lindsey :toad:

@donwatkins I agree.