2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrump Finally Pissed Off the Wrong Women. All of Them.
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Trump Finally Pissed Off the Wrong Women. All of Them.
Female voters dont give a fuck if men like Trump approve of themand their votes count just as much as a mans.
Erin Gloria Ryan
10.25.16 6:20 PM ET
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The post-debate explosion of nasty proves that that Trump still doesnt understand that this election isnt a golf outing with a group of guffawing yes-men, and that women are finally facing the full extent of their electoral power.
Voting is one of the few arenas where the approval of men like Donald Trump doesnt matter a lick. A voting machine cannot tell the gender of the voter and count it for only 77 percent as much as the vote of a man. A voting machine cant pass over a female vote in favor of a younger male vote that reminds it of itself at that age. A voting machine cant throw out the vote of a woman if she refuses its sexual advances. It wont tell a female voter that shes a New York City 6 but a Chicago 8. A voting machine doesnt grope.
Women make up over 50 percent of the voting population in the U.S., and on November 8, any of them can imagine canceling out the vote of any man theyd like as they fill out their ballots. Donald Trump cant insult them into submission.
Nor can Trump insult Hillary Clinton into submission. The world has coddled Donald Trump into believing that women who have somehow failed to meet his antiquated standards of femininity should feel chastened. Men like Trump expect women to feel like failures when a man calls them anything less than pretty, sexy, pleasant, nice. But the world outside of Trump Tower has been moving at a much faster pace than the creaky machinery between Trumps ears. In the voting booth, compliance is optional. Deference to the whims of men is unnecessary, if not undesirable.
Women voting for Hillary Clinton dont fucking care if you like it. They dont care if men like Trump think theyre such nasty women. In the booth, removed from what shards of sexism remain in the modern world, women are allowed to be indifferent to Trumps standards as they please.
On November 8, theres nothing men like Donald Trump can do about the fact that women dont care what men think nearly as much as men think they should. To women who are just realizing this, the feeling must be intoxicating. To men like Trump, it must be terrifying.
TonyPDX
(962 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,181 posts).
This is not a Black and White thing, as I am white.
Everyone I speak to, including whites--and I mean everyone, says the same thing.
It took trashing a white woman to bring this issue to a head! It's painfully obvious.
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Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)I changed it from "Who sez?" to the more accurate "Sez who?!"
livetohike
(22,133 posts)LisaM
(27,800 posts)It's kind of funny that they ran the most openly misogynistic candidate they could have this election. I think many of the other candidates are just as harmful to women as far as legislation goes, but Trump is reminding women of all the million little things that happen in a non-political setting - the uninvited groping, rating women on looks, aging them out in the workplace, body shaming, the list goes on and on and on.
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)We are WOMAN!
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)ffr
(22,668 posts)Not only ready to go, I'm going. No rest in helping out HFA and democratic causes. It's time out from my personal life, but worth it.
Encourage Dems to get out and vote. Ask around, if you're not sure about someone voting this election or not.
Take no vote for granted. GOTV!!! This is it!
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)go ladies!!! Show this guy what's what!!!
niyad
(113,216 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,012 posts)Soon we'll send him off to spend more time with his family...if they'll still have him.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)nolabear
(41,959 posts)lark
(23,083 posts)Annie and Aretha are the bomb together and separately.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)This humiliation will destroy Trump as well as his businesses ..
He doesn't know what is coming because it already has arrived. He cannot change the name, because everyone already knows who is behind the curtain. The bully will get his, and I must admit, I will enjoy watching him loose his financial shirt. When you loose by 10 to 15 million votes, there really isn't much to say.....except......................good by bully................
PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)Hekate
(90,624 posts)Response to Hekate (Reply #23)
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