"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:

"In the increasingly non-hypothetical world ruled by far-right Trumpists, the blissful servitude of women must be insured by removing their control over their bodies, and ideally, actually, by removing them from the public sphere altogether."

~ Jia Tolentino

#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #WhiteChristianNationalism #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy
/3

How America Embraced Gender War

Jia Tolentino writes about the future of abortion rights, and why both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris framed the election as a conflict between men and women.

The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"As the election results trickled in on the night of 5 November and into the next morning, and as Donald Trump gained a larger and larger advantage, a decades-old Germaine Greer quote kept dancing through my head: 'Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.'”

~ Jill Filipovic

#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #WhiteChristianNationalism #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy
/4

In America, women are disposable

Donald Trump’s win is a betrayal of women's fundamental rights.

New Statesman (www.newstatesman.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"As much as pundits and voters may point to the economy or immigration or crime as the reason voters backed Trump, the truth is that Trump offered virtually nothing in the way of actual policy on any of those issues. He offered instead the promise of masculine strength and male dominance, of men returned to their rightful positions of authority in the White House and in houses across America."

~ Jill Filipovic

#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
/5

Men Got Exactly What They Wanted

The 2024 election, perhaps more than any in history, was an election of identity politics.

Slate Magazine (slate.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"The fact that Donald Trump’s candidacy was even viable, given that horrific track record, was because of the support of white men. …

And let’s be clear. Trump has laid out an agenda that will provide the 'wages of whiteness' to his male supporters but very little else. The racist hate that undergirds Maga can only provide threadbare comfort."

~ Carol Anderson

Societies have their idols, it's clear.

#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
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Will the American project survive the anger of white men? | Carol Anderson

At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfare

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

William Lindsey :toad:

"This is nothing new. White male anger, especially at the nation’s inclusion of African Americans, has repeatedly privileged white supremacy over the viability of the United States. ...

Similarly, today, despite the warnings from generals who served with Trump, police officers who endured the attacks on January 6, and a God-fearing then vice-president Mike Pence who was targeted for a hanging with gallows constructed during the insurrection,"

#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny
/7

William Lindsey :toad:

"the angry white men who propped up Trump’s return to the White House ignored everything they say they valued – the military, law enforcement and God – to give into the rage of white grievance, the 'pastiche of sweaty anger' that the Trump-Vance campaign peddled, and to the fear and violence embedded in the 'great replacement' theory.

Once again, unfortunately, the anger about a multi-racial democracy has put the viability of the United States in jeopardy."

#Trump #women #misogyny
/8

HeatherTX - The Resistance

@wdlindsy
I admit it - the trump nightmares have started again and I’m so damned angry & depressed this morning.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Sexist and abusive attacks on women, like 'your body, my choice' and 'get back to the kitchen,' have surged across social media since Donald Trump’s reelection, according to an analysis from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue."

~ Clare Duffy

#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
/9

‘Your body, my choice’ and other attacks on women surge on social media following election | CNN Business

The use of misogynistic and abusive phrases targeting women, like “your body, my choice” and “get back to the kitchen,” has spiked across social media in the days since Donald Trump’s reelection, according to an analysis from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

CNN (www.cnn.com)

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
/11

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
/12

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

#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
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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

#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
/14

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

#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
/15

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?