"The Trump campaign knew that men were his ticket back to power, and it targeted them—pointedly young men, and men of color—with a sophisticated campaign of grievance and disinformation.

Nazani

@wdlindsy
Opus Dei (~90k members)
was chastized by the Pope, but not enough. With a track record of villainy going back to the FBI spy Robert Hanssen, they ought to be disbanded.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Nazani Yes, Opus Dei has long had an inside track at the Vatican and among many Catholic bishops' conferences including in the US. That has much to do with their wealth and power, and their influence at high levels of government including, in the US, on the Supreme Court. Matthew Fox has written cogently about this.

A Deeper Look at Opus Dei, Christofascism, Misogyny & SCOTUS - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox

Since the far-right wing cult in the Roman Catholic church known as “Opus Dei” has played such a prominent role in Leonard Leo’s life and in the current Supreme Court that he has fashioned, it seems fitting to take a closer look at the organization. Christofascism is always steeped in misogyny. So was the fascist founder […]

Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox (dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org)

William Lindsey :toad:

@JustRosy I hope they'll be satisfied with what they've chosen for all of us by their votes. I wonder if they're foolish enough to think that the proposal to make Mike Huckabee ambassador to Israel is a promising sign for what Trump intends for Palestinians.

William Lindsey :toad:

@JosephMeyer I do, too — an excellent statement.

Nazani

@wdlindsy
I keep waiting for today's youth to rediscover Liberation Theology... but they don't read.

Newcanuk

@wdlindsy @JustRosy I hope people don’t blame the people who refused to barter with their conscience.
Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Keeping your conscience fully and completely makes you stronger.
The struggle never ends.

Just an outsiders two cents which rounds down to nothing.

Paxil

@wdlindsy It is gobsmacking how women and #Latinos in #Texas and #Florida voted to oppress themselves.

Newcanuk

@wdlindsy @JustRosy so this comment lost me a follower or two. So sad !!
Lol
Anywayz…… calling out the ones you’re complaining about as simply stupid is going to get you exactly nowhere.
If you don’t look for answers, you’re not going to find solutions.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Newcanuk @JustRosy You lecture me by stating that I need to look for answers.

I'm curious as to why that fact that some of us are sometimes very stupid is ruled out as an acceptable answer.

Newcanuk

@wdlindsy @JustRosy please don’t tell me I’m lecturing you by adding my opinion to your conversation, this is counterproductive to any conversation. Which may be your point.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Paxil This is surely a major story of this era (from around, say, 1970 to the present) of political life in the US, isn't it — the willingness of many of us to keep voting against our self-interest at the behest of economic elites who keep us angry, divided, and ignorant?

Paxil

@wdlindsy All I can figure is they're voting against other people but to me the other people is them.

Newcanuk

@wdlindsy @JustRosy if someone wants to pass judgment on a group that refused to vote for the lesser evil, maybe there should be a more thorough examination of the reason beyond “they’re stupid”
If people want to unfollow me for that, o welcome it.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Nazani You couldn't be more right. So many now get "information" from online videos and soundbytes. The loss of interest in reading, in reading actual books, is very disturbing to me.

Peter Brown

@wdlindsy basically all he has done is fed off xenophobia and division- between races, between nations, between languages, between faiths, between genders and amongst different kinds of gender.
I suppose that means he is a fascist white supremacist .

William Lindsey :toad:

@Newcanuk @JustRosy You'll have to point me to the statement you claim to be quoting in this thread, "They're stupid."

Do people make stupid decisions sometimes? It seems self-evident that they do, and that the "they" includes ourselves. Should we recognize that our stupid decisions create problems for ourselves and others? I don't see how we can learn otherwise. Is a healthy society one in which we all pretend ignorance is preferable to knowlege? Some folks may think so. I don't.

William Lindsey :toad:

@peterbrown I agree.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Paxil Well-stated.

William Lindsey :toad:

"For men, Trump represents 'hegemonic masculinity,' the exalted position of men at the top. In this view, aggression, control and dominance are all admirable traits and highly socially valued."

~ Ashley Morgan

#Trump #men #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #YoungMen #TheoBros #Catholic #JDVance #manosphere
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Trump represents a specific type of masculinity – and it’s dangerous for women

The former president represents a particular type of masculinity.

The Conversation (theconversation.com)

Mastodon Migration

@wdlindsy

No treatment of this subject is complete without mentioning Carole Cadwalladr's prophetic piece from back in July:

This is a misogyny emergency. A huge outpouring is coming in the runup to the US election | Carole Cadwalladr

This time Kamala Harris will be the target for the social media platforms that promote prejudice

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Edit: For which, by the way, she was excoriated by the usual suspects as a conspiracy theorist yada yada yada...