"Jeez.

[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
/6

Tucker Carlson Gives Truly Disturbing Speech About “Daddy” Trump

These are real quotes from a real speech Tucker Carlson gave at a Trump rally.

The New Republic (newrepublic.com)

[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
/7

[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
/8

US presidential election updates: Polls show historic gender split between Trump and Harris voters

Kamala Harris has brushed aside suggestions her campaign is falling behind with male voters as Donald Trump appears in Nevada and Arizona

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

[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
/9

On men wanting issues

Don't worry! You already have them!

(emilyctamkin.substack.com)

[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
/10

[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
/11

[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
/12

[troy_frizzell@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy

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

It's not.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (NY: Random House, 2018), on how aspiring fascist leaders deliberately distort and exploit male anxiety about loss of status to gain power.

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
/13

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Jason Stanley (ibid.) sees a direct line between the exploitation of male anxiety about perceived loss of status by aspiring fascist leaders, and their attacks on LGBTQ and especially trans individuals.

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
/14

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Stanley also notes that the obsession with declining birthrates — especially among white women — within fascist movements, an obsession Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and JD Vance want to put front and center now, is linked to fascist aspirations. Women need to be put back into "their place" as mothers, and spanked back into place if they refuse.

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
/15

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

“The leader’s displays of machismo and his kinship with other male leaders are not just bluster, but a way of exercising power at home and conducting foreign policy. Virility enables his corruption, projecting the idea that he is above laws that weaker individuals must follow."

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
/16

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (NY: Norton, 2020), pp. 7-8

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"It also translates into state policies that target women and LGBTQ+ populations, who are as much the strongman’s enemies as prosecutors and the press. ….

Virility, in the form of the leader’s dominance over women and other men, has pride of place in his [i.e., the strongman’s] plans for national transformation

~ Ibid., and p. 66

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
/17

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@troy_frizzell I certaintly don't read any of the commentators I've excerpted above to be pretending that Politico is journalism acting in good faith. Au contraire.