I think most of them are Republicans, though.
A psychoanalyst has one theory:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-prudence-l-gourguechon/could-it-be-a-mom-issue-w_b_9540738.html
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I think there is something deeply troubling, psychologically, to white men about a very powerful white woman. Almost all white men had one in their lives once—a mother who told them when they had to go to bed, when they had to stop playing, when they had to wash up. In psychoanalysis, the past never really goes away. We know people retain traces of early relationships and overlay these on current ones. A powerful white woman might just press too many buttons that link back to the fear and resentment towards the seemingly omnipotent mother of childhood. Sure men loved their mothers, but that love like all love is always tempered by ambivalence. And in the case of sons and mothers, a fight for autonomy from Mom’s control on the part of the sons.
Before I got too uncomfortable watching traumatic brain injury happening in live action, I used to blog annually about the Super Bowl ads—my idea was that they gave us a snapshot of the nation’s psyche. One year—it was 2010, and the great recession was still in morbid full swing—the ads reflected a strange view about the mindset of American men.
I think the phenomenon of white male voter dislike for Mrs. Clinton relates to a theme that appeared in several of those ads, and the psychic effects of the enduring state of crisis in which we live.
In one ad a non-descript man lists in a flat voice all the actions and concessions he is willing to make for the woman (his wife one assumes) who presumably is ruling his life: he will sort the recycling, put the toilet seat down, and comply with about a dozen other rules and practices obviously important to women and not to guys. But he will NOT give up his right to choose the car he wants. Here, his voice fills with drive and energy. He picks the Dodge Charger (crescendo/climax)!! He escapes the controlling, emasculating woman (just in time) with his virility intact, thank to the bullet-like, driven, phallic vehicle.
In 2010, I thought that the predominance of this theme—men feeling powerless and controlled by a powerful woman has ripped away their autonomy and masculinity—was in part emotional fallout from the recent economic disaster.....
Hmmmm. Maybe there's an actual "pushback" reason--from a psycho-analytical perspective-- for all the "TINY HANDS" jokes and Senator Warren's whole roll out of thin-skinned, PETTY, SMALL comments!!! The underlying message:
"If you're afraid of Clinton, and prefer TRump, you, too, have a little thingie!!"
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