Kamala Harris lost the election because she is a woman. As a woman living in the US, I will die on this hill.
But if you disagree with me, don’t worry!
You can just scroll down and read all the replies from men telling me how wrong and stupid I am.
Well i would say she lost because the voters are majority sexist, it's not her fault she's a woman.
Let's be the men who want the men who want women to be quiet to be quiet.
(Buffalo x8)
Men who aren't insecure don't feel the need to assert their superiority over women. Or people of color. Or gays, lesbians, people with disabilities or anybody else.
Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
-Mary Wollstonecraft
TIL Pete Hegseth is a member of a church that wants to repeal the 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage).
It does seem like that modem right is just incels and other misogynists who escaped their Internet containment to become a political force. Why any women votes for and Republican let alone become one is beyond me? Same with anyone who loves (or even likes) a women in their life. What a bunch of weirdos
As a former pick me, it's the pick me thing
Some people hate their own agency. They want to be told what to do by a ‘higher power’, whether that’s God, men, a cult leader… that way they can safely say nothing in life is their fault.
It’s the adult version of wrapping themselves in a blanket because they’re scared of something. That something being their own choices, or worse, random chance, leading them to fail.
But those who desire control often desire both to be subject to it and to exert it over others. So a hierarchy forms. Men tell those women what to do, and in turn they tell those lower on the ‘ladder’ (younger women, children, and in their ideal world ‘others’ like PoC) what to do. Thus everything in their life is controlled, and they feel safe. And they get to have a little power of their own, again without real responsibility, because they’re just underlings for someone ‘higher on the ladder’.
Yeah, freedom is hard and scary. When you're free you're capable of making the wrong choice. You bear the responsibility for your actions and decisions and there's always the possibility that the other shoe from one of your decisions will drop. These women don't understand that a lot of these men are arrogant buffoons who won't listen to wisdom if it comes out of a female mouth unless they already thought it.
I believe the solution is community support and social safety nets. When we minimize some of the risks freedom feels better, but on some level it will always be scary.
These people could just accept that what they want is to have a partner who they agree is in charge, but no they insist on trying to force every woman to submit to men.
Unfortunately pared with this attitude is the magic thinking that ‘as long as everyone follows The Rules and keeps to Their Proper Place then nothing bad will happen ever’. They literally believe that The Hierarchy is the only thing keeping civilization from disintegrating into chaos.
It’s not that they don’t realize they’re buffoons, it’s that the buffoons are ‘following The Rules’ and so are they, so that buffoonery will never be turned on them.
Paired with this is the belief that everyone thinks exactly as they do, just some people are too stupid to realize it. So they need to exert The Rules and The Hierarchy to help those poor other people see sense.
If someone wants to pay me my salary to sit home and be quiet, I'm down for it. Any takers? Anybody?
-crickets-
Welp, guess I gotta keep working and paying taxes and all that good stuff. And if I'm paying taxes, then you bet your bippy I'm going to have opinions about things and vote accordingly.
My wife's voice is my favorite part of her (and she is very pretty, but she is an amazing vocalist). Also the way she uses it. She speaks up for great things. I think I had a point, but I got distracted sorry
I've got some good friends up near Moscow (Idaho) and while they're pretty sane (just your average normal cool weirdo. Nothing like a boring normal person, an interesting person) they say weird shit is always afoot
Masculinism has been a great gift, because factions with different views on, say, protectionism or Israel or Big Tech can all agree on the overreach of feminism and the need for a return to traditional gender roles. Far from being a fringe belief system, masculinism has become the single most important force uniting the American right, bringing together an unlikely constellation of pastors, posters, senators, preachers, influencers, podcasters, and fanboys.
Misogyny was the first bigotry and the model for all the others. No wonder it's the connective tissue of the American Right.
There are many women in the American right. However, Democrats would be smart to not just cater to women but to men.
You've fallen for the false dichotomy that you have to pick men or women like their interests are inherently at odds and human rights is a zero sum game.
From https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-ponder-manosphere-rcna209806
Democrats know they have a problem with men, particularly the young men who have drifted away from them in recent years. But six months after the gender gap contributed to the party’s disappointing showing in last year’s election, top Democrats are still throwing spaghetti at the wall, lacking a unified theory on how to win these voters back.
TBF that seems to be their MO in general.
Only way appeal broadly to both is to not favor subjugating one to the other, but support people in the relationships they want to have.
Not just relationships but the problems each gender faces. Democrats have been too focused on the problems women face probably because they foolishly believed that since there are more women than men, this would enable them to win.
This is utter nonsense. What they have not done is pander to the desire to oppress
From https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-ponder-manosphere-rcna209806
At the center of all of this is an acknowledgement that public opinion on the Democratic Party has dipped to an all-time low, men are souring on the party especially quickly, and losing ground with about half the voting population isn’t a recipe for success. It’s weighing heavily on the minds of Democrats while making Republicans giddy: On Friday, President Donald Trump needled Democrats for wanting to “spend money to learn how to talk” to men.
Jeff Horwitt, a Democratic pollster with Hart Research Associates (who conducts the NBC News poll with a Republican counterpart), told NBC News that a look at recent presidential exit poll results shows that “when Democrats do well broadly with men, they are competitive. When Democrats are not competitive with men, Democrats lose.” And while Horwitt doesn’t believe Republicans “have a lock on young men,” the GOP spoke to their economic anxiety in 2024 in a way that loomed large in 2024.
I'm not really seeing where the Democratic Party is doing anything to cater to women over men.
Can I find examples of extremely loud activists that are terminally online and that might be saying what I consider rather dumb and unhelpful and counterproductive? Of course. That doesn't mean that is the direction the party is taking.
From https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-ponder-manosphere-rcna209806
Democrats know they have a problem with men, particularly the young men who have drifted away from them in recent years. But six months after the gender gap contributed to the party’s disappointing showing in last year’s election, top Democrats are still throwing spaghetti at the wall, lacking a unified theory on how to win these voters back.
Again, I'm not sure where I see Democrat politicians kicking men. Do you have examples of actual policies that Democratic politicians vote for, or don't vote for, that are ostracizing men?
Do I see plenty of liberal activists doing what I think is performative and ridiculous bullshit practically designed - maybe even literally crafted and designed to do exactly that- to peel men away from the Democratic Party?
Oh hell yes I do.
A nearly textbook case of this I could point to is what BoingBoing's comment section turned into. I honestly don't know if it was a psyop or just a case of people being really really stupid. Anyway, right after they achieved peak liberal (oh, excuse me, I called them "liberal" which they find deeply offensive, LOL, and insist on being called "leftists", by Athena, and don't you ever forget it, you shitlibs!) caricature and maintained that for a few years, it was taken behind a paywall.
Just in time for PEDOnald's second term, by the way. Very interesting.
But do I think these overly vocal and terminally online are really the Democratic Party, most importantly, the Democratic candidates actually running for office or in office?
Not even close. But I know that Faux "News" loves to go nutpicking and find quotes from the fringiest of the fringe and declare that there is a war on men or whatever.
The problem could be simply that Democrats did not attempt to connect with young men. Kamala Harris refused to appear in Joe Rogan's podcast. From https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/democrats-dip-manosphere-search-key-young-male-vote-rcna243890
One place that young male voters found a sense of community and culture, Democrats say, is in the loose collection of podcasts often dubbed the “manosphere.”
These podcasts — hosted by comedians such as Joe Rogan, Theo Von, Tim Dillon and Andrew Schulz — often make "you feel like you’re not alone,” Litman said.
“It’s funny, often very funny. It’s a little subversive or often very subversive. It feels intimate. You get to know the hosts over the course of hours and hours of conversation: their lives and their, their personalities and their quirks, and I think that is really special. Like, the parasocial relationship can be very powerful,” she added.
Well, there's someone out there for everyone. I'm a woman with an admittedly annoying squeaky voice & frustrating cadence & stuttering due to trauma that will never heal (all why I prefer writing), but my body is smokin hot & fine as fuck because exercise & nutrition are my passion. So if there are men out there who would still love to keep me around to look at & touch & play with, with no expectations of me saying anything profound or satisfying or useful, I can keep my mouth shut just let me spend as much time exercising & working out & we'll all be happily ever after.
Yeah but do you want him to be a raging misogynist? Or do you just want a deaf guy?
As if those are the only two types of men in the world? If so, which one are you? Misogynistic? Or deaf?
Not a man, but am deaf actually. The article is about misogynists. Deaf just completely solves the problem you're talking about.
I'll bet your voice is fine.
I assure you it's not. Every man who approaches me because they're interested in what I look like, as soon as I start talking, they start looking for an exit from the conversation and they leave.
I like fun voices. And you got a smokin' hot bod? You and I would get along just fine.
Well the hard part is I also have high standards in men. They have to be smokin hot & obsessed with health too. Haven't found one of those who can tolerate my squeaky voice, my utter uselessness, because I also refuse to cook food for anyone. IMO every adult should be capable of feeding themselves. Pisses me off when men expect women to cook for them.
So this is how a fine lady can end up forever alone, and I'm fully aware of this corner I've painted myself into 🤣
Okay, you might be part of the problem. A little lowering of expectations might be a good idea. People shouldn't be so judgmental, they miss out on a lot of interesting surprises.
And what's with the cooking thing? You just cook for yourself, and eat it in front of the other hungry people? If you're cooking for one, you cook for the others in the house, too, or at least offer. And you take turns, because cooking is fun. We actually fight (well, discuss) about it in our house, because most nights there is more than one person who wants to cook dinner.
OTOH, If someone EXPECTS you to be providing dinner every night, and won't cook themselves, that's a problem. They're going to starve.
The foods I eat are extremely healthy & don't taste good to anyone but me. I'm not a Goddamn chef. I HATE COOKING! Go to a restaurant if you want a chef. The last boyfriend I had, his house was full of junk food and I had to cook him his own separate junk that I would never eat, and it compromised my own health. I put so much effort into taking care of myself, I don't have any energy to take care of anybody else. I go to work & I go to the gym. Feed your own damn self. I'm busy & exhausted.
So maybe other people should change, not me. I'm at the pinnacle of health. Why should I lower my standards? Other people should raise their standards. Why do people want to eat junk & feel like shit? Why should I lower my standards to meet them down there? You expect everybody to feel like shit just because you do? If every individual person takes care of their health, the world will be full of healthy people feeling good & smokin hot attractive. Because that's all attractiveness is. It's being healthy from the inside.
I just need speech therapy!!
I am a retired chef. I can guarantee that I could make the foods you like to eat tasty for all. I mention this because, given the various flags you've mentioned, an actual chef might be a good match for you. Generally speaking we like cooking for other people. The one down side you'll have is that the adage "do not trust a skinny chef," is there for a reason. I'm in decent shape for a chef, but still about 10-20 pounds overweight. It's because we are constantly having to taste the dishes, so monitoring my caloric intake while working is damn near impossible. Doesn't mean I don't spend time in the pool and surfing, just means that I eat really good food frequently.
Find another chef though, I'm not available.
Oh, and just so you know, the not cooking thing isn't just men. I've had to teach every girlfriend I've had, except one, how to cook. Had to ban one of them from my kitchen because she kept scorching my expensive pans.
oh you teasing flirt ;)
Patriarchy and the State are too faces of the same social form. It should never be surprising when the strengthening of one empowers the other.
Misogyny & the right: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2445637#abstract
Andrarchy/misogyny is THE bedrock prejudice, & all other racisms/classisms are secondary.
Due to the false-framing of the original-article, that it's local a problem, here are evidences of it being global:
< I asked an LLM to find me the one on women's rights vanishing in zionism >
It appears you are referring to a widely circulated 2023 opinion piece or reportage by Haaretz, a major Israeli newspaper, which discusses the decline of women's rights in Israel under the current political climate. While several articles touch on this theme, the most prominent one—often cited by international observers—is an opinion piece by Netta Ahituv titled "Women’s Rights Are Vanishing in the New Zionism" (or similar variations depending on the translation).
The article argues that the rise of religious nationalist factions within the Israeli government has led to a systematic "vanishing" of women from public spaces and decision-making roles. Key points highlighted include:
If that specific article isn't the one you're looking for, the following publications frequently cover the same "vanishing rights" beat:
Caplan, K. (2003). The internal popular discourse of Israeli Haredi women. Archives de sciences sociales des religions, (123), 77–101. https://doi.org/10.4000/assr.1069 Cited by: 33
Devendra, N. (2026). Feminism of the besieged: The case of the Tal’at movement. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 29(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2026.2639511
Grinberg, O., & Aharoni, S. B. (2024). The human rights archival gap: Ethno-archiving the silencing of radical activism and Israel’s violence against Palestinian women. The International Journal of Human Rights, 29(2), 129–154. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2024.2383733 Cited by: 3
Helms, M. (n.d.). How does religion affect Jewish women’s rights in Israel? – Podcast. Israel's Divides. https://opentext.ku.edu/israelsdivides/chapter/womens-rights/
Christofascism's "biblical" bulls+cows "relationship" is what we, in our culture, are encountering.
Therefore we're more likely to be knowing it than the misogyny that other parts of the world, other cultures, are embodying..
Islamists .. anybody here remember when the Taliban put a bullet in Malala Yousafzai's face, because she was a girl who advocated for education-rights?
I do.
Afghanistan's reversion to the bulls+cows "relationship" has been as baldfaced as can be.
Apparently G-D was incompetent & wrong, to have put spectacular LivingPotential in the lives of girls+women among our planet, & they're MAKING G-D's mistake be corrected..
< the millions of missing women genocide >
The phenomenon you are referring to is known as the "Missing Women" crisis. It was first famously quantified by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in a landmark 1990 essay, using data from the decennial Indian Census and other international demographic benchmarks (Sen, 1990).
The core finding of this research is that in parts of the world—most notably India and China—the ratio of women to men is significantly lower than in regions where women and men receive similar medical care and nutrition (Anderson & Ray, 2010).
For accurate and academic-grade information, you can refer to these primary sources:
Anderson, S., & Ray, D. (2010). Missing women: Age and disease. The Review of Economic Studies, 77(4), 1262–1300. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdq019 Cited by: 116
Jha, P., Kesler, M. A., Kumar, R., Ram, F., Ram, U., Aleksandrowicz, L., Bassani, D. G., Chandra, S., & Banthia, J. K. (2011). Trends in selective abortions of girls in India: Analysis of nationally representative birth histories from 1990 to 2005 and census data from 1991 to 2011. The Lancet, 377(9781), 1921–1928. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(11)60649-1 Cited by: 426
Jha, P., Kumar, R., Vasa, P., Dhingra, N., Thiruchelvam, D., & Moineddin, R. (2006). Low male-to-female sex ratio of children born in India: National survey of 1.1 million households. The Lancet, 367(9506), 211–218. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(06)67930-0 Cited by: 625
John, M. E. (2011). Census 2011: Governing populations and the girl child. Economic and Political Weekly, 46(16), 10–12. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23018151 Cited by: 49
Sen, A. (1990). More than 100 million women are missing. The New York Review of Books, 37(20), 61–66.
Sen, A. (1992). Missing women. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 304(6827), 587–588. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.304.6827.587
I've ripped-out the bogo-links & that's about it.
See the forest, not just the near-trees.
This is a millenia-long genociding that's been going on, & so long as we ignore the totality-of-it, we're helping it perpetuate, through our ignoring.
That isn't a world-viable path/vector, now: we have to get upright if we are to be viable, through The Great Filter.
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