• TomMasz@lemmy.world
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    Remember the MAGA women wearing the “You Can Grab My Pussy” shirts? Not all Republican women are going to be upset by this.

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      Making sure that women have very little self-respect is one of the primary functions of American Evangelicalism.

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      Not a USA citizen, but a Hungarian, but I think some stuff still holds ground in the USA ground: They primarily think these right-wing radicals are just “jolly little conservatives”, and not radicals, since they call themselves “conservatives”. Contrary to the naive liberal belief, conservatism isn’t just a jolly little belief of personally held traditions and healthy patriotism, it’s just “fascism lite” which will turn full-out fascism once the checks and balances are removed, or getting extremely frustrated with social change.

      And also there’s the whole “you will get more conservative as you get older” propaganda, which makes a lot of young people “skip the liberalism and fast-forward to the inevitable”, and they either want to remain conservatives because “jolly little belief of personally held traditions and healthy patriotism”, or they believe they can’t leave. Many also go down the hate road, and they’ll get called all kinds of names if they forgive wrongdoers who were part of a minority, and they don’t weaponize that wrongdoing into genocidal thoughts. We seriously need to counter this whole “you will get more conservative as you get older” with something. Can someone contact Innuendo Studios? I have an idea for an episode of “The Alt-Right Playbook” if he still haven’t made one on this topic.

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      They unironically think Harris was some kind of monster and that it was all worth it to keep trans out of sports.

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      There is a real lack of critical thinking, too. I legit know a few Republican women that honestly think that not eating meat will make a man effeminate, and that men that eat meat are more manly.

      Obviously due to stupid marketing, but even in their cinematic universe where this is “true” it makes no sense and has no consistency. I’ve asked them if they think that women that eat meat are going to spontaneously sprout a penis.

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    I can’t help but think of how this cartoon from the beginning of November got it completely backward

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    Project 2025 will create the Christian Taliban. I highly doubt the dumb fuck female MAGA voters will realize what they voted for.

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    Tis is gonna be one of the most delicious schadenfraude of all. They think they are safe, but soon enough they are going to discover how important is being a white straight able-bodied male for these fascists. And how unimportant they are outside of a bedroom or a kitchen.

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      You’re overestimating Republican women…

      Ever hear one of those stories about a Military wife who believes Rank is sexual transmitted so she has all the authority of her husband?

      That’s how they think.

      It’s not that all women are lower than all men, it’s that the wife has the defacto “rank” as the their husband.

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      Obviously I’m not saying I agree with it, but that’s how they think and why they’re ok with this.

      You have to think like them, they’re “property” so treating a man’s wife badly is like going up and pissing on his giant truck, the man will “handle” the offense. And the only way for a woman to gain social ranking is marrying a “powerful” man.

      A frightening amount of woman think that’s a good system.

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          Bruh…

          The county I grew up in voted 95% plus trump in the last three elections.

          It was weird to run into anyone who didn’t think like that till I was over 18 and in college. Even then at a red state college, lots of women viewed themselves as status symbols. Their self worth was solely determined by the “best” guy that would date them.

          Like, for large parts of America that’s still the norm. And no amount of “Yaaaas Queen” social media posts will change their thinking. It’s not even that they’re trapped and need saved, that’s the life they choose a lot of the time, you don’t have to grow up in it.

          But everyone still acted shocked women were voting for trump.

          If we dont understand why they’re doing it, we’ll never change their minds.

    • Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      I will not enjoy seeing all American women being marginalised. I will, however, enjoy seeing Americans finally exercising their right to protest a fascist government.

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        really… yeah, let’s shed a tear for the poor republican women, waving “Mass Deportation Now” signs. They didn’t seem to care about dehumanization so much then. Now they are the ones being dehumanized, hopefully they’ll remember how that feels come mid-terms.

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        Dehumanizing? I am just saying they should get what they asked for. But here the thing: being a minority isn’t a choice, being gay isn’t a choice. Being a republican is. But if that is dehumanizing then so be it. They can join humanity again whenever they want.

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    I’ve fought tooth and nail against accepting this, but looking at their plans it’s becoming unavoidable: This will not end without violence.

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    For the believers, I think that tmany would be fine with this. It reinforces their preferred structure of a patriarchy in which they have a well-defined place and role (head of the domestic household, subservient to the man). No worries about having to deal with a fickle job market or figuring out what you want to do with your life. Your life path is set (get married, raise kids, take care of family), and, for some, that well-defined role the status that it conveys is really comforting. It provides a sense of security.

    It’s why, I expect, while there are many who fight it, there are plenty of women in Muslim societies who are fine with things as they are. We emphasize with those women who chafe at that and fight it since we’ve history valued the individual rights of self-determination and freedom, of course.

    Thats a big allure of the American taliban to some folks. It provides structure and defined roles in a chaotic world.

    Of course, republican men like it for the power, but more importantly, that women voters mostly vote against them. Stopping women from voting would cement them in power.

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      It’s weird having a branch of my family that has these values and family structure. They’d probably support the idea of the male head of a family having the only vote. And yet, they clearly don’t agree that men should be able to beat their wives, because it happened to one of their daughters and they quickly helped her leave her abusive husband. Good people with very backwards ideas.

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    I mean, a major problem in society is that two incomes are required to pay off a mortgage - and making one member of that equation unable to work society wide would solve that, leading to mortgages and hence housing price calibration (calibrating it to a single wage income)…

    …but I was kind of hoping that wouldn’t be a product of gender segregation. Also this seems like it’s going to affect a lot of other things and people women’s autonomy and hence freedom and safety in jeopardy.

    No Bueno.

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      I think it’s adorable that people believe that the capitalists would do away with female labor instead of going back to the good old days of just devaluing it. The myth that women didn’t work outside the home is a fiction. Only the upper classes could afford such a luxury. Poor woman always had to work, often for much less pay.

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        Poor woman always had to work, often for much less pay.

        Exactly. Women always worked - they were just segregated into lower paying jobs and had less rights (pregnant? no more job for you! and since you’re desperate, enjoy the shitty working conditions).

        There will always be poor single mothers that have to work to support their family. They just won’t have labor protections.

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      Sad to see that people thing this is the working class fault and not the rich class fault. Just like everything from recycling plastic global warming, and child marriage