Trump and Vance dog-whistled them to win the election. Now their leaders are loose. They'll target women and people of color first. And won't stop. there.
"Have you never wondered why it is we are not just in armed combat against you? It is not because there is a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence."
I wouldn't hurt you for anything -- but it's much, much worse -- far, far darker and more dangerous -- than it's been in the past. I know the past has been rough for women, but the dangers facing young women now are something we have to talk about. And it's up to those of us who have known freedom, up to the women who are adults, middle-aged, and old (my group!), to make sure these freedoms are not lost to this complex, incredibly predatory set of forces. We have to educate people very fast, and get out the vote, and stand by these young women. We have 63,000,000 people willing to vote for a man who raped a woman in a department store and committed 34 acts of fraud to cover up an affair with a porn star. That's before he tells us he can grab any woman by the pussy because he's rich and famous. It does hurt, and I'm sorry. And as we move on through post after post, it's going to hurt much, much worse. I'm sorry. But if we don't get an education and stand up for our daughters and granddaughters, they'll have no one. And that I refuse to have happen.
All the jolly 50s TV depictions of the clever housewife putting it over on dim Dad, were a sugar coating to mask the reality of life then, which is that women were inferior in every way men cared to make them. Conjugal rights trumped consent—shut up and put out now or else. And that wasn’t just the lower orders or even a particularly controversial position. Pregnancy out of wedlock had few effective preventative measures and abortion was not only criminal, procedures were not up to medical standard even of the day.
As bad as the pending dangers appear, I assure you things have been far worse and could be again.
I, for one, absolutely do. ... You know, there was large study in which men and women were asked what they most feared from their heterosexual partners. Men, it turns out, most feared being humiliated by a woman and/or left by her. Women most feared BEING KILLED BY THE MAN SHE LOVED.
Do not ever be “sorry”. Don’t ever apologize for having compassion for others and wanting to do what is morally right. We know in our own hearts where morality lies.
I feel like your explanation of semiotics perfectly calls out jd vance's entitled use of the term "childless cat ladies." I mentioned before that it wasn't just about denigrating women who are single, child-free, and have cats.
It is a common insult, commonly, almost casually batted around, not some term he made up. But in using it, he meant to instill in women themselves a conditioned aversion, a reactive disgust to "becoming" that trope. It did backfire. But it was also a dog whistle to men who believe they are not only entitled to define women's societal roles, they are also the only ones capable of keeping women from *becoming* the thing no one wants to be.
Hi, Carly ... Later today we'll have a post about how choosing JD Vance was NOT a mistake by Trump but a deliberate strategem to link him to the manosphere he wants to tap for votes ahead of the election. Vance is using Andrew Tate's vocabulary to call out to them. Talk about a dog whistle. If Trump isn't able to generate immense enthusiasm in this group, he'll lose this election. They MUST go to the polls, and some of them hate ALL government, so that's a bit tough to pull off. Trump's comment about Kamala Harris and BLOW JOBS (he said that) and Vance's continued abusive comments about women are Andrew Tate material. Tate has 9.5 million followers on the Dark Web, despite being banned from all social media--except for X as Elon Musk reinstated him a few months ago. The depth of the misogyny espoused by the four major misogynist groups -- Incels, MGTOWs, Men's Rights Activists (so-called), and Pick-Up Artists (Tate) -- is staggering, and it's getting more overt and in-your-face all the time, and it is being pandered to by Vance (who completely agrees with Harrison Butker AND Andrew Tate) because he's one of them -- and espoused by Trump because he'll use anybody and anything and because he's been an abuser of women his entire adult life. You're right, Carly: WOMEN ARE BEING GROOMED BY THESE GUYS RIGHT NOW.
Given this week’s SCOTUS immunity decision., the urgency of dealing with these male dominated threats is much greater than ever before. I visualize them as self organized groups that can only arise when there’s a breakdown in societal norms. Tolerance, legally, unintentionally, or intentionally out of fear, enables them.
How to deal with them is the question. There’s not enough time to break all of them between now and November. Breaking one of them merely pushes its members to one or more of the other self organized groups, similar to playing Whack-A-Mole.
Would doxxing all of them work so the general public is aware of who they are as individuals? Willing intolerance of individuals is far easier than attacking the groups as a whole. I suspect law enforcement, particularly local police departments, will be of limited use in dealing with them because most, if not all LEO’s, are philosophically aligned with the Internal Invaders (my new term for the folks who support authoritarian and White Christian Nationalist theocracy).
Just fyi: I live on a fixed income & cannot afford another sybstack subscription but I appreciate your work, especially in terms of my 2 year old granddaughter
Yeah, it is. When I realized what I was looking at, it took me days to stop being sick as a dog. There is GREAT information online from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has done a spectacular job.
"Have you never wondered why it is we are not just in armed combat against you? It is not because there is a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence."
- Andrea Dworkin, "I Want a 24 Hour Truce"
Oh man. You make my heart hurt. Everything you said is true.
I wouldn't hurt you for anything -- but it's much, much worse -- far, far darker and more dangerous -- than it's been in the past. I know the past has been rough for women, but the dangers facing young women now are something we have to talk about. And it's up to those of us who have known freedom, up to the women who are adults, middle-aged, and old (my group!), to make sure these freedoms are not lost to this complex, incredibly predatory set of forces. We have to educate people very fast, and get out the vote, and stand by these young women. We have 63,000,000 people willing to vote for a man who raped a woman in a department store and committed 34 acts of fraud to cover up an affair with a porn star. That's before he tells us he can grab any woman by the pussy because he's rich and famous. It does hurt, and I'm sorry. And as we move on through post after post, it's going to hurt much, much worse. I'm sorry. But if we don't get an education and stand up for our daughters and granddaughters, they'll have no one. And that I refuse to have happen.
All the jolly 50s TV depictions of the clever housewife putting it over on dim Dad, were a sugar coating to mask the reality of life then, which is that women were inferior in every way men cared to make them. Conjugal rights trumped consent—shut up and put out now or else. And that wasn’t just the lower orders or even a particularly controversial position. Pregnancy out of wedlock had few effective preventative measures and abortion was not only criminal, procedures were not up to medical standard even of the day.
As bad as the pending dangers appear, I assure you things have been far worse and could be again.
I'm convinced women of European descent have epigenetic memory of the Burning Times.
I, for one, absolutely do. ... You know, there was large study in which men and women were asked what they most feared from their heterosexual partners. Men, it turns out, most feared being humiliated by a woman and/or left by her. Women most feared BEING KILLED BY THE MAN SHE LOVED.
"Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them." - Quote, Margaret Atwood (author of The Handmaid's Tale)
And now born out by research.
That makes a lot of sense
Do not ever be “sorry”. Don’t ever apologize for having compassion for others and wanting to do what is morally right. We know in our own hearts where morality lies.
I feel like your explanation of semiotics perfectly calls out jd vance's entitled use of the term "childless cat ladies." I mentioned before that it wasn't just about denigrating women who are single, child-free, and have cats.
It is a common insult, commonly, almost casually batted around, not some term he made up. But in using it, he meant to instill in women themselves a conditioned aversion, a reactive disgust to "becoming" that trope. It did backfire. But it was also a dog whistle to men who believe they are not only entitled to define women's societal roles, they are also the only ones capable of keeping women from *becoming* the thing no one wants to be.
Hi, Carly ... Later today we'll have a post about how choosing JD Vance was NOT a mistake by Trump but a deliberate strategem to link him to the manosphere he wants to tap for votes ahead of the election. Vance is using Andrew Tate's vocabulary to call out to them. Talk about a dog whistle. If Trump isn't able to generate immense enthusiasm in this group, he'll lose this election. They MUST go to the polls, and some of them hate ALL government, so that's a bit tough to pull off. Trump's comment about Kamala Harris and BLOW JOBS (he said that) and Vance's continued abusive comments about women are Andrew Tate material. Tate has 9.5 million followers on the Dark Web, despite being banned from all social media--except for X as Elon Musk reinstated him a few months ago. The depth of the misogyny espoused by the four major misogynist groups -- Incels, MGTOWs, Men's Rights Activists (so-called), and Pick-Up Artists (Tate) -- is staggering, and it's getting more overt and in-your-face all the time, and it is being pandered to by Vance (who completely agrees with Harrison Butker AND Andrew Tate) because he's one of them -- and espoused by Trump because he'll use anybody and anything and because he's been an abuser of women his entire adult life. You're right, Carly: WOMEN ARE BEING GROOMED BY THESE GUYS RIGHT NOW.
Given this week’s SCOTUS immunity decision., the urgency of dealing with these male dominated threats is much greater than ever before. I visualize them as self organized groups that can only arise when there’s a breakdown in societal norms. Tolerance, legally, unintentionally, or intentionally out of fear, enables them.
How to deal with them is the question. There’s not enough time to break all of them between now and November. Breaking one of them merely pushes its members to one or more of the other self organized groups, similar to playing Whack-A-Mole.
Would doxxing all of them work so the general public is aware of who they are as individuals? Willing intolerance of individuals is far easier than attacking the groups as a whole. I suspect law enforcement, particularly local police departments, will be of limited use in dealing with them because most, if not all LEO’s, are philosophically aligned with the Internal Invaders (my new term for the folks who support authoritarian and White Christian Nationalist theocracy).
Just fyi: I live on a fixed income & cannot afford another sybstack subscription but I appreciate your work, especially in terms of my 2 year old granddaughter
Sad this isn’t in the open. When I write about things like this I don’t get attacked, at least not any more.
Yeah, it is. When I realized what I was looking at, it took me days to stop being sick as a dog. There is GREAT information online from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has done a spectacular job.