2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHostility toward women is one of the strongest predictors of Trump support
Since the start of the Republican primaries, hundreds of thousands of words and hours of television airtime have been devoted to one question: What do Donald Trumps supporters want? The 42 percent of Americans supporting Trump have been studied and caricatured and psychoanalyzed.
Explanations abound: Theyre stricken with economic anxiety. Theyre anxious about their social status. They feel left behind by the federal government. Theyre authoritarians who want a forceful leader. Theyre racists who oppose the changing demographics and norms of the US.
But theres another important factor that these analyses have largely left out: sexism. Three political scientists who studied the connection between sexism, emotions, and support for Trump found that the more hostile voters were toward women, the more likely they were to support Trump.
Researchers Carly Wayne, Nicholas Valentino and Marzia Oceno, who wrote about their work for the Washington Posts Monkey Cage, conducted their research before the revelation of the secret recording that captured Trump bragging about kissing and groping women without their permission, and before more than a dozen women came forward to accuse Trump of sexual assault in the aftermath of its release.
While it might not seem surprising now that Trump has galvanized sexists, their findings suggest that sexism played a much bigger role in his rise than most people realized or wanted to imagine.
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/1/13480416/trump-supporters-sexism
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)that part of the reason DJT is a good candidate because he is "plain-spoken" and a "man's man." I was baking pies but flipped him a bird in my mind.
DK504
(3,847 posts)you didn't throw one of the pies at the dip-shits on the teevee machine.
niyad
(113,552 posts)"other".
progressoid
(49,999 posts)Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)DeadLetterOffice
(1,352 posts)They're the "I'm not a feminist!" brigade, the women who think it's reasonable for men to make more at the same job, the women who don't believe abuse & assault survivors, the women who sneer at other women with advanced degrees or high-power careers.
Gender is not a protection against stupidity, unfortunately.
niyad
(113,552 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)yardwork
(61,703 posts)Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)Fuck the misogynistic trogs who support the shitgibbon, self-hating women included.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)yardwork
(61,703 posts)electron_blue
(3,592 posts)lark
(23,155 posts)I've been saying over and over that any woman that votes for Drumpf has no respect for herself or for others of her sex. It's just a fact. Unfortunately, way too many women are raised to only value the men around her and to discount and be hostile to the women around her, especially those raised in "fundamentalist" households. My sister is definitely no bleeding heart liberal (that's my title, lol), and she DOES NOT like Hillary, but she early voted for Hillary because Drumpf is a maniac, cheat, fraud, liar and #1 reason - woman abuser who should be in jail. I love my sis and all other strong women who refuse to be lessened by the small handed, small brained, likes of him.