"Jeez.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Jeez. 'Daddy’s coming home'. How can we not say this election is also about toxic masculinity and the latent violence of threatened patriarchy?"

~ Peter Jukes as quoted by Paige Oamek

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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https://newrepublic.com/post/187485/tucker-carlson-daddy-trump-spanking-speech

[stevensanderson@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy a lot of frail ego's out there I see, truly disturbing.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"For Trump’s cult-like supporters, Carlson’s spanking fantasy encapsulates everything they love about the presidential candidate: the paternalism, the toxic masculinity, the lust for violence and thirst for revenge."

~ Arwa Mahdawi

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/tucker-carlson-speech-trump-spanking

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Harris’s spokespeople may dismiss Carlson’s disgusting speech as 'weird' but it is less weird than it is terrifying. The idea of Trump as a father figure spanking a woman into submission seems to resonate with a disturbing number of Americans."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Tucker Carlson has severe and well-documented masculinity issues and he has especially always demonstrated that he feels extremely threatened by Secretary Mayor Pete Buttigieg…."

~ Evan Hurst

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #PeteButtigieg #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/tucker-carlsons-perv-daddy-spank

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Trump’s history of violence against women matters in itself, whether or not it affects the election."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/stacey-williams-trump-epstein-allegation

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"This also isn’t the first time that the right has talked about spanking on the main stage. In 2016, Chris Christie threatened Hillary Clinton, promising to 'beat her rear end,' and Senator Ted Cruz asked voters to give Clinton 'a spanking.'"

~ Paige Oamek

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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https://newrepublic.com/post/187485/tucker-carlson-daddy-trump-spanking-speech

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"But invoking the image of Trump as 'daddy' or as a punishing God and having that message embraced by the frenetic crowd, who also cheered that 'Christ is King,' is enough to make any normal person squirm."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"According to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll, Trump is besting Kamala Harris among men by 53% to 37%, while the Democratic candidate is winning among women 53% to 36%."

~ Luca Ittimani

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/25/us-presidential-election-trump-harris-updates

[peasluvnjustice@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy A child. It's always a child.

[sordidamok@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy So, they want to beat white women too. Got it.

[philip_cardella@historians.social]

@wdlindsy Rupar shared a video this week of people praising Trump and saying they're praying he'll win and looking forward to being thankful for a win at Thanksgiving and said it was cultish.

I'm like, I'm saying the exact same things about Harris. I'm not sure THAT rhetoric in THAT video was unusual for any campaign.

Now this Carlson stuff, which Rupar correctly identified as fascistic is unusual and terrifying.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Emily Tamkin responds to Politico's claim that men are supporting Trump because their "issues" are ignored by Harris and the Democrats:

"Almost every straight man I know has benefitted from birth control. Planned Parenthood offers STD testing for men, too."

~ Emily Tamkin

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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https://emilyctamkin.substack.com/p/on-men-wanting-issues

[philip_cardella@historians.social]

@wdlindsy J F C

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Thirty to 40 percent of infertility cases involve male factor infertility, so let us not pretend that IVF is some great gift just for women. And it’s, of course, not only straight, cisgender couples that use fertility treatments: I know gay couples, for example, who used IVF to expand their families."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"And so when, for example, a Politico op-Ed offers that 'There is a new Gender Policy Council in the White House, but it has not addressed a single issue facing boys or men,' I am confused, as that council’s national strategy includes a section called 'Protect, Improve, and Expand Access to Health Care, including Sexual and Reproductive Health Care.' Did I miss something? Are those not issues facing men and boys?"

#Trump #Republicans #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism
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[samiamsam@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

i would pay good money to see tucker's fetlife account

[philip_cardella@historians.social]

@wdlindsy have you ever considered putting these into a blog post?

Yours is one of my go to feed for seeing important stories. @GottaLaff too but she tends to be much more real time so a blog might be harder.

At any rate, I'd pay to read the aggregated materials y'all put together.

I very much appreciate both of you.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

In the passages attached below from his book Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (NY: Knopf, 2014), Charles Marsh chronicles how the drive among Germany's Protestant leaders for a "manly Christianity" played a major role in facilitating Hitler's rise to power in the early 1930s.

#Trump #Republicans #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #Hitler #Nazis #churches
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[troy_frizzell@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy

Can we just not pretend that Politico is journalism acting in good faith?

It's not.