Something I can not understand

[IMnotU]

Why did Hillary Clinton lose more than 50% of the white woman's vote to Trump? It seems that the fact that she was the first woman with a real chance to be POTUS counted for nothing. And she lost to the biggest sexist pig to ever run for office.

[OliverQ]

1. Because lots of white women are idiots too and hate Hillary with a burning

passion for completely irrational and fake reasons.

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3. That, racism, and somehow, inexplicably, self-hate too.

I mean how the hell do you not want someone like you to finally make it as president?

If just had to be a white man to get the black guy out.

[calimary]

7. I suspect a lot of it is jealousy. From what I've observed in my own life.

And I don't mean just about myself, either. There are those who feel threatened and diminished by somebody who's done more or gone farther than they have. Some of it, I suspect, is resentment. Maybe a lot of it. She's so amazingly accomplished - WAY more than anybody you or I know in our own lives. And I'd guess her achievements give some women a complex. I suspect they resent that she's somehow "shown them up" and made them feel small and inadequate by comparison.

There's a downside to succeeding, especially if it's high-profile success. The higher you climb, the easier a target you become. Sometimes all it means is you'll have more people shooting at you.

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9. Great insight. I hadn't thought of the resentment factor, especially of another white woman.

Seems that would spur them to vote for her and open the door for others.

[calimary]

10. Well maybe you're just a more generous person.

In my career, the biggest knife wounds in my back came from other women. Competing with me, resenting that I had X, Y, or Z job that they thought they should have gotten, or to which they felt they were more entitled. Kinda bewildered me - because I thought "hey, we're all starting to make inroads in this-here previously-all-boys club and shouldn't we all stick together and support each other? FUUUUUUUCK... I'm grateful I had the pleasure of working with some women who were just completely wonderful and supportive and funny and congenial. And there were men who were pretty lousy, too. You find all kinds, both the goods AND the bads. But the worst bullshit or duplicity or hostility I ever had to deal with came from another woman.

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15. Thanks. More info that many men aren't privy to.

[Control-Z]

12. All so true, calimary.

I'll only add that a lot of women, sadly, rely on their partners to tell them how to vote. As embarrassing as it is, there was a time when I would ask my husband and trust he knew what he was talking about. It's funny, though, over time we reversed our political roles. He now asks me who and what to vote for.

[DURHAM D]

17. You nailed it.

This is especially true of women who are a little younger, same age and in particular, older than she is.

I saw this every day. The women of the above described age group for the most part did not have professional careers because they didn't think they could. Hillary puts the lie to that and it pisses them off.

[CincyDem]

2. Because racism isn't gender specific.

Trump is being called the first white president for a reason and white women are as familiar with the dog whistles as well as white men.

[Hav]

4. Tradition? Old habits and preconceptions?

If I remember correctly, more than half of the white women preferred to vote for the pedophile in Alabama just because of the R behind the name and possibly, because of religious issues.
Regarding HRC, I'd say sexism also exists from women towards other women. When some of them said that a woman cannot be President because of her emotions, then that is sexism, too.

[underthematrix]

5. There are so many fierce and fabulous white sistas but white women as

a group are just not reliable political partners and I don't know why.

[BigmanPigman]

6. I asked this question often on DU this year.

Can a woman be a misogynist? The answered were always "yes". Think of the picture of that idiotic woman wearing a t-shirt that she wore so proudly, "Trump can grab my..." with an arrow pointing toward her crotch. Women DO hate other women because they have been programmed to by their subculture, environment and political/religious affiliations.

I have come to the realization that I am a misogynist too. I hate women who hate women. I hate women who wear idiot t---shirts proudly and then go and vote for a pedophile, a sexual abuser, or a sexual harasser.

[ProudLib72]

14. Do you remember the women who wanted to repeal the 19th amendment?

I say those women probably should lose the right to vote because they are complete and total idiots.

[BigmanPigman]

19. If Phyllis Schlafly hadn't died a year ago

I would've assumed she had a hand in developing an idiotic idea like that.

[dlk]

8. The Research Demonstrates the More Successful a Woman Becomes, The More She is Disliked

The reverse is true for successful men. Sexism, unfortunately, rules.

[virgogal]

11. I certainly hope that women are not always expected to vote

for a woman anymore than I would expect men always to vote for a man.

Makes no sense.

[JI7]

13. Because most white women tend to be republican

And vote for what would be best for their men in their life.

[demmiblue]

16. ...

[Tatiana]

18. White women are secretly jealous of her.

This has been my experience, in discussing the topic with white female coworkers who voted for Trump.

That's not what they say, exactly, but it's the conclusion I have drawn. They resent that she has a powerful husband and used that, as well as her own intellect as a springboard for her own career in politics. They resent that while some of them lost their husbands to infidelity, she kept hers and her first marriage is still going strong. They resent her tenacity and ambition to be a candidate for the President of the United States.

She has the power, intellect, and prestige that these women want for themselves, but can never see themselves ever achieving.

[StevieM]

20. Because James Comey and the FBI deliberately set out to destroy her reputation with their lies.

eom

[JimGinPA]

21. I Believe Hillary's Biggest Fault Is...

The cottage industry that formed over the 'Clinton hate' that started in the late 80's. Hell, the RW media and talk radio began, or at least blossomed, because of it. For nearly 40 years there has been a constant drumbeat of negative media aimed at her from the other side. She doesn't bake cookies, that Whitewater "scandal", sticking her nose into healthcare when she was only a first lady, being a lesbian in a marriage arrangement, the murders she ordered, selling baby parts out of the basement of a pizza place, and on and on and on. By the end of the 2016 campaign whatever outrageous thing tRump said or did, all of the mainstream media felt it was their duty to point out how she was considered so "untrustworthy" too. (False equivalency anyone?).

AND THOSE EMAILS!!!