I’ve noticed how often even well-meaning cis white men just *totally miss* that the Musk/Trump regime are obviously driven by overt and hideous misogyny, in addition to overt and hideous racism.
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Brooke Harrington
It is a non-stop source of amazement how invisible misogyny remains to white men, who even now--after the highly respected Coast Guard Commandant was fired for being female & turfed out of her home with 3hrs notice--STILL write about MAGA & the purges of the federal gov as driven only by racism.
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(Thewelweit points this out re: German leftists/Germans confronting the rise of the Nazis)
We ALL have mothers, usually spouses, daughters, and looking away is easier
Also, cowardice
Of course legions or Cis Conservative White Women are finding out they, their daughters and grand daughters are all DEI hires
Many Hispanic voters have a similar outlook.
Can substitute "federal worker" as a descriptor. Many thought they were "good Republicans" even after 4 decades of Reagan, Norquist, etc.
About who they voted for.
Half or more them probably didn’t vote for trump. It’s not ok to dismiss any of it regardless
https://cawp.rutgers.edu/news-media/press-releases/historic-gender-gap-wasnt
Oooh, C++. In the niiinnneeties.
Frenzied darting to gather them up.
Frustrated tears.
It’s a visual you don’t forget.
I was a pol sci major. I got a weird kind of autism.
Cause it’s really obvious and too many posts and headlines just skip it
🧾 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna190820
The only thing that changed is that now that these people have seized power they no longer have to be subtle about their disdain towards anyone who isn’t a part of their “in-group.”
or at least that's what they tell themselves, the ones who have any conscience left at all
Really surprised that has not been talked about. Guess it's this hidden misogyny
Related to that eo too
That implies that any men also not "complying" will be treated the way Trump treats women.
A woman’s job is to find a man! 🥴(lesbians don’t exist obv) 🤡
But, like, there’s a block for me in seeing it in Musk/Trump. Like when it’s pointed out, yes…
I’ve gotta do better about this. Especially because it’s so obvious when pointed out.
Not being a straight (or closeted) Christian White Male is a disqualification for everyone else in their world.
They’ll take a token blond or Black or Indian here & there…but they’ll make sure they’re entirely obedient.
I've jolted a few men in my life with the truth lately.
They can learn.
I see this daily, despite a continuous stream of high-profile women fired for being female, or publicly denigrated as "DEI" hires.
Presumably these men are seeing the same news stories we are, and yet...the overwhelming fact pattern spelling out MISOGYNY in giant letters just doesn't register.
We need to address THAT.
I should have applied for all the same jobs James Comey had.(Same HS)
Oh wait. I look white. Maybe I AM qualified to run the FBI.
In my working life I learnt very early on any On-The-Job-Training wasn’t meant for me. I had to figure shit out myself on my own time
What, you mean all of it? Yeah.
explanation is not excuse; we are often not taught to consider the existence of others and subjected to a number of very much
It's a trap I fell into back when I was in college. It's easier to believe that racism and sexism are a product of capitalism rather than driving forces in their own right
Even more importantly, getting rid of capitalism/making a worker's state, even assuming the ideal could be done, would not solve racism and sexism, and in particular things would likely get more misogynistic/racist/transphobic, which is why I never truly was a fan of the economic left.
The other reason is we are obviously never forced to experience this ourselves.
It's so enticing to think yourself smarter than everyone else and to simplify the world to a point you feel you understand it all.
“….. NSF employees were given a list of words - including women, female, Black and indigenous - to flag in grants for possible termination.”