Auf Reddit gab es ein paar Diskussionen:
Why are White Women supporting Trump?
According to the NBC exit polls, Trump won with white women (52% versus 47%).
Is it internalized misogyny? Being pressured by their spouses?
I don’t even live in the US, but I’m concerned for my Filipino family there. As a woman of color, white women disappoint me.
Ein paar Antworten:
It’s not like men have a monopoly on spite, greed, or racism, homophobia or even misogyny.
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Racism, since Kamala is a WOC and because they hate migrants.
Internalised misogyny. A lot of women still believe women shouldn’t run things.
Evangelicals voting against bodily autonomy.
Self-interest- middle class/wealthy white women believe Trump will benefit them economically.
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I’m not sure it’s so much that the demographic went more for Trump, and rather that a lot of progressive women who voted for Biden, just sat out of the vote. Trump has similar turnout in voter totals as 2020, whereas people did not turn out for Kamala like they did for Biden.
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Latinos voted for Trump in record numbers. Sixty plus percent.
It’s the economy, and the ruling party always gets blamed.
Border towns (mostly Latino) voted for Trump in huge numbers.
One thing analysts aren’t touching is the effect of the transgender ads. They were brutal. Hearing Kamala in her own words say that she would always fight to pay for sex change surgery for an illegal immigrant in prison made her seem like a completely „out of touch West Coast liberal.“ You didn’t have to care much about the issue for her to seem completely out of touch with middle America. Yes, we know this topic is a lot more nuanced, but it is what it is.
I lay this all at the feet of Biden, however. No one can run an effective national campaign in two months. And Jill Biden saw how her husband was fading, and didn’t do anything to persuade him to drop out till the end. Jill Biden is more than just his wife, and as his biggest supporter she let us down, as well.
Yeah, I’m in a mood to blame everyone.
Democrats took the male vote for granted
It took them until the final week to realize that men will be voting too, and they made a last-ditch effort to win male vote by… releasing a bunch of shitty ads about how manly it is to support women.
That’s not just shooting yourself in the foot, that’s ignoring a tumor in your foot for years, then blowing off that foot with a shotgun once you realize something may be wrong. They fumbled so hard it’s downright funny.
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On Threads and several other platforms I saw frequent hatred of men and the „I’m tired of caring about what men have to say“ and now they act surprised men didn’t vote their way.
But let’s be real: Half the country is women. Clearly enough of them went red. But hey, let’s blame men.
The problem is we have our own interest and democrats completely ignored us, they only cared about abortion and single cat ladies
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No, it’s worse. They specifically do not care about men, especially white men. When you mention that you get shit on. „Hey, what about me?“ – „fuck you“ is the general response.
Apparently calling people racist and sexist doesn’t make them vote for your guy and, for some reason, this genuinely surprises Democrats. You can see it in r/news and r/politics right now.
They will blame anyone but themselves because accountability is something they can’t handle. They have zero self awareness. Yet they expect men to be self aware, emotionally mature, and care for people who specifically hate them.
The Democrats are not a party of „Let’s build a better tomorrow!“ – it’s just „me and mine“ with a different wrapper – and if you aren’t in the „in“ crowd, go fuck yourself.
The party that claims they want equality.. then claims they want equity … their words and choices show they want neither.
They believe men hate women because they genuinely hate men and they cannot fathom why this is appalling.
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Yeah, I noticed the same thing about how Democrats speak to voters:
For every demographic other than men, the message is, „Vote for us, and we’ll give you <appealing things, cash & prizes>“.
But for men, the message is always, „Vote for us. You need make sacrifices for women, you worthless, toxic scum“.
The message to men is always about why men should give things up, accept being discriminated against, hate themselves for being men, and make greater sacrifices, so that Democrats can deliver even more benefits to women, who need and deserve to get those things from men because reasons.
How to survive a second trump presidency?
Mods, please remove if this type of post is not allowed.
For those of you in the US, we are nearing the wee hours of the morning of election night, and feminists like myself that were hoping for a Kamala wave are getting nervous. I’ve begun to start preparing myself for what it might look like not only if trump wins, but also if Rs also win the senate and the house, giving him a trifecta and ofc Supreme Court protection.
I’m struggling with feelings of oppression more than ever- it blows my mind that someone who is convicted of sexual assault might govern our country again. In addition, the “gender gap” is very concerning. Our younger voters are more divided by gender than ever before, with men just showing up for trump by incredible margins. And I can’t be upset at the women who turned out for trump, as much as I’d like to be. Internalized misogyny is real and rampant.
My initial reaction is to flee my republican state, but assuming I’m unable to do that, which is likely the case, I’m trying to process real and tangible ways to potentially survive this and recover from this. Any thoughts or feelings are welcome. Much love 💙
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