2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFemale Trump Supporters who "Want My Country Back"
I've had conversations with a couple. And closely read and analyzed the coverage of others.
Because, damn, girl... what country IS that, and why the FUCK would you want it "back" if you ever had it in the first place, anyway?
I've reached a few depressing conclusions about such women. And while I don't claim that this particular delusion is at the root of all Trump's female support, I'm fairly confident it accounts for a big percentage.
The "country" they "want back" never really existed, to start with. But what, in their anxious, angry, wistful minds, did it look like in some misty "better time?" What would it have been like being them, "back then," and thus what are they expecting Trump will deliver, in the halcyon future of 'Trumperica'?
First of all, what do these women have in common? They're almost uniformly Caucasian.
Their imagined Shangri-La, then, was a place where not-white people were invisible, or at least in "their place," which was working as nannies, railway porters, etc., on their own damn' side of the tracks. A woman like her never had to encounter those skeery not-white people except when they were working for her or her husband in some menial capacity.
At which time they'd always call her "Ma'am" or "Miz >Name<" and act very respectful.
And never, ever, EVER would she have to worry about a not-white person sitting next to her child in school, or, heaven forbid, taking the designated job, college admission slot, or other benefit her children and other family members are entitled to. They can have their own not-white schools, colleges, even their own not-white businesses (on their own side of the tracks, of course.)
She's not a racist and she doesn't want bad things to happen to them. She wants them to be happy, as long as they're properly invisible to her and/or respectful. As long as they stay in their proper place, she's happy to grant them the right to do not quite as well as 'real' (that is, white) people, up to and including modest financial success and, of course, their own churches and other community institutions.
But how can she possibly imagine that, as a person with a vagina, Trumperica would be a good place for her to be? WTF is up with THAT?
ahhh... now it gets interesting.
Because, you see, this Trump supporter, this woman, she knows that back in the Good Old Days, a woman like her would be happy, because back then, men and women knew THEIR places, too. And a man's place was to A) Fall in love with a nice woman like her and marry her; B) Go out and Win Bread to provide for her social and financial security so that she'd never have to worry about those things; and C) Play Little League with their male children and loom jovially-but-intimidatingly over the young men arriving to take their female children to the sock hop.
Back then, only women who deserved it got cheated on by their husbands, and only bad girls got raped, and every girl could expect a truly charming Prince to be by her side at the end of the day (when she was serving his nice dinner, of course,) and she and "the girls" could play bridge while the menfolk were at work, and all was simply la-la-lovely!
A woman like her wouldn't have to worry about ending up broke, lonely, abandoned by creepy predator-guys (who are that way because of Obama and liberals, of course,) potentially homeless, threatened by all the terrific challenges of modern adult life, terrible decisions about getting teeth fixed or paying car insurance, and all the other anxieties.
Trump, who "tells it like it is," and shares her anger and frustration at the complete mess of everything the stupid liberals and Obama have made, will Fix Everything.
Of course she's voting for him.
Fortunately, she's a comparatively small and continually shrinking portion of the overall female population.
sadly,
Bright
TXCritter
(344 posts)And hopefully, sometime late on Nov 8 a girl will be born who will never have experienced an America where a woman couldn't be president.
That will be a powerful gift to a generation of young women. It will be a right they were born with and will know deep in their being so that when someone tries to take it away from them, they will know they've been wronged. The creature you just described is an critically endangered species, I hope.
TygrBright
(20,756 posts)And among the many, many reasons to vote, not just against Trump, but FOR Hillary, that's a powerful one indeed.
affirmatively,
Bright
Doreen
(11,686 posts)These women have already been beaten down by men and have no self worth when it comes to being a woman. The mans word is the only word and this is what Trumps woman vote is.
TygrBright
(20,756 posts)...but some guy mansplained it all to her.
sadly,
Bright
Doreen
(11,686 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)That's why they don't like those feminists either. They are afraid.
TygrBright
(20,756 posts)oasis
(49,370 posts)"You'd better start swimming or sink like a stone,'cause the times they are a changin'."
yardwork
(61,588 posts)Good post.
AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)I too am grateful that those women are "a continually shrinking portion of the overall female population."
For the record, I am both white and female and would not vote for Don the Con if my life depended on it.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)Which weren't good for very many and certainly not for women. I've watched Mad Men (yes, it's just a tv show) and can't imagine what kind of living hell that would be if you were a woman. And especially if you had other plans in mind than to be a housewife.
Are they nostalgic for the days men could beat their wives with impunity? Where women couldn't even have a credit card or bank account in their own names? It boggles my mind that anyone would want to return to those days.
Blue Idaho
(5,045 posts)How many of those women are white? That could explain a lot.