when the dems used the war on women tactic in the 2012 elections I knew people had had enough of the divisiveness if the right had fielded a better candidate than paste white guy Romney . maybe on purpose. I don't think trump would have allowed candy Crowley to pull a stunt like she did. the left needs to realize that folks would rather not be pissed off all the time.
On Nov 12, 2016 1:41 PM, "'Perplexed' via PoliticalForum" < [email protected]> wrote: > > I sort of hope they keep this "-ism" and "-ist" shit up for 4 more years > so we can see an even greater landslide in 2020. They're too f*ing ignorant > to grasp that this bs is a large part of the reason they lost. > > On Friday, November 11, 2016 at 10:37:23 AM UTC-5, Kamakazee wrote: >> >> What’s come through, in the coverage and early analysis of the election, >> is that internalized sexism is a force to be reckoned with. By >> “internalized sexism,” I mean a couple different things. One is the >> comfort that some women – white women especially, given the racism of our >> society’s beauty standards – take in playing the role of object. I’m >> thinking of that viral *photo* >> <http://www.mediaite.com/online/people-are-losing-it-over-a-woman-whose-shirt-says-trump-can-grab-her-you-know/> >> of a middle-aged white woman in a tank top with “Trump can grab my” plus an >> arrow pointing down. I’m thinking, too, of the *much* >> <http://fusion.net/story/368213/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-america-hates-women/> >> -*quoted* >> <https://mic.com/articles/158995/more-white-women-voted-for-donald-trump-than-for-hillary-clinton#.k4PhPHjdZ> >> positive remarks one female Trump supporter *made* >> <http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/11/9-women-on-why-theyre-still-voting-for-trump.html> >> about groping. >> >> There are, of course, limits to what can be extrapolated from such >> anecdotes; let’s not assume every woman who simply votes for the Republican >> wants Trump to grab her, or would even joke about this! But I see how it >> would be appealing, in a society that values women for sex appeal, to >> identify as one of the ‘hot’ women Trump would approve of. To be a Donald >> Trump woman was to be heterosexually desired. To be a Hillary Clinton woman >> – in this warped and superficial understanding – was to throw on a pantsuit >> and ask to be valued, instead, for your abilities. >> >> But internalized sexism is also the thing where women are put off by >> other women’s ambition. We live in a society that denigrates female >> achievement. That much-discussed reaction Hillary Clinton provokes – that >> she’s a bit too power-hungry, a bit *entitled* – isn’t one only men >> experience. I know I’ve thought similar, over the years, rolling my eyes at >> some professional achievement-shouting more than other, only to realize I’d >> been giving female classmates or colleagues the harder time (not to mention >> being insufficiently self-promotional myself). It’s an unconscious bias >> I’ve made a conscious effort to combat, for both principled and selfish >> reasons; I make no claims of having conquered it entirely. Point being, I >> don’t think it’s just that Clinton’s particular achievements aren’t >> relatable – class-wise or achievement-level wise – to most voters, >> including white women. Neither candidate here was *relatable*. I think >> it’s that female achievement is, even to many women, unappealing and >> uncomfortable. >> >> Longwinded point being: Yes, female Trump voters, like all Trump voters, >> are guilty of at the very least looking the other way when it comes to >> racism. But it’s not quite that they picked racism over feminism, because >> priorities. It could also be that their oppression as women converged >> with their indifference as white people, leading to… that pesky 53% >> http://forward.com/sisterhood/353945/so-um-about-the-white-female-vote/ >> > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
