Trump is a documented sexist pig. So why is he getting ANY support from women voters?

[Yavin4]

Last edited Thu Jun 2, 2016, 03:29 PM - Edit history (1)

Let's say that the Republicans nominated an African American or a Latino who is on record making ugly, bigoted, racist remarks. Would such a candidate be getting anything more 4% or 5% of support from those groups? Of course they wouldn't.

So why is Trump enjoying ANY support from women? Thoughts?

--On edit to add--

1.) This has nothing to do with Hillary. If Bernie or Biden or Elizabeth Warren won the Dem nomination, Trump would still get 40%+ of the women's vote.

2.) Trump embodies every ugly trait of a sexist, almost to a caricature level. He doesn't like to hire women, and when he does, he judges them purely on their appearance. He dumps his wives when they age for younger, prettier women. He even makes creepy statements about his own daughter.

[geek tragedy]

1. some women have internalized societal sexism. same as it ever was nt

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Maybe, like my boss, they always vote Republican because of the "family values".

You know, like talking about your baby daughter's rack-to-be, or how hot your teenaged daughter is and how you might be dating her (you know, if she wasn't your daughter, nudge, nudge, wink, wink).

I don't know. It beats the hell out of me.

[TexasProgresive]

3. Maybe someone needs to put some saltpeter in his food.

Yes but, I mean.......!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. Trump also has a very regressive tax policy, why do poor white men support him?

[sendero]

5. HRC is a neocon in all but name...

... why do so many Democrats support her?

[840high]

7. .+1

[Jeffersons Ghost]

12. This OP has only one recommendation: MINE! to answer the question:

Some women enjoy being called "Bimbos" and other demeaning names. Still others, can be paid to like Trump. If someone is willing to pay them for their actions, certain people will do anything. Have you ever heard of a "Hit-man?"

[bbgrunt]

6. Bible thumpin beliebers

[gollygee]

11. +1

The few women I know who plan to vote for Trump are all anti-abortion fundamentalist Christians. And even they don't like him, because they recognize he isn't a Christian, at least how they define it. (I have no idea about Trump's personal religious views.) But they want anti-abortion SCOTUS justices so they'll vote for him regardless.

[hamsterjill]

8. I'm convinced that (for a lot of these women), it's a self esteem issue.

I asked an ardent Trump supporter this very question. She sloughed off the issue of Trump having a problem with women, calling them dogs, etc. Her answer is "that happens all the time".

It may happen all the time, but it's NOT okay with me that it happens at all. Shouldn't be okay with anyone.

I think these women don't believe that they are deserving of the respect that the rest of us insist upon.

[renate]

9. I think your thought experiment is very interesting and revealing

It seems like a good ad or op-ed or something could be made of it--I hope you write it or that somebody else does, because I haven't seen that scenario discussed elsewhere and my (perhaps over-optimistic) hope is that it might make a few Trump voters think. (I just reread the end of that sentence... Trump voters, thinking... yeah, right.)

[Eleanors38]

10. Well, some women get a big turn-on from violent criminals. Google...

Murder Groupies. Many discussion links. I figure women as a group can be just as stinky and amoral as men.

[uppityperson]

13. The Bad Boy syndrome. That's my thought also.

[Exilednight]

14. the sadder part is that Hillary is losing to trump in the white woman vote.

I find that very odd and as a bad omen for things to come.

[Throd]

15. My mother-in-law has nothing but disdain for Hillary.

[Warpy]

16. Wannabe star fuckers

It's why death row mass murderers get women writing to them, wanting to marry them.

I don't get it either, but the phenomenon exists. The most reprehensible males in the world always have groupies.