Posted on 11/21/2024 7:12:12 PM PST by simpson96
In the days before the election, when too many stories about deadlocked polls and undecided voters and the MAGAfication of young men began to wear on my soul, I turned to TikTok to see what women were thinking. Soon enough I was swimming in a sea of female excitement and angst. I watched videos of ordinary women of all ages and races—in deep blue districts and deep red ones—describing what this election meant to them. Women who had just voted, sitting in their cars and sobbing about what it would mean to elect the first female president, what it would mean to defeat a vitriolically sexist candidate who’s been found liable for sexually assaulting one woman and who stands accused by dozens more, whose campaign gleefully demeaned women as “trash” and “childless cat ladies.” What it would mean to elect someone who’d spent the last three months, and the two years before that, connecting reproductive freedom to economic concerns. What it would mean to elect someone taking the stress of caring for both kids and parents seriously, who recognizes the housing crisis is hurting all but the richest, who has more than a concept of a plan for how to address such problems.
I watched one young woman driving 10 hours to her home state because her absentee ballot never arrived, muttering “10 and 2, 10 and 2” as she stared out at the road ahead. I watched women flying across the country to vote. I watched women take part in the “They both reached for the gun” Chicago meme as they talked about canceling out the vote of their Trump-supporting father, brother, or husband. Or bragging on husbands or dads whose vote they didn’t have to cancel. One who said she wouldn’t have to cancel out her husband’s vote because he’d forget to do it if she didn’t remind him.
One woman told of breaking off her engagement when she found out her fiancé was for Trump. (“I can’t share my life with someone who is going to vote in that direction…Ladies, we need to stick together.”) I watched as young woman after young woman testified that they’d never, ever consider dating anyone who voted for Trump. I watched as women who were in middle or high school in 2016 reacted in horror at seeing, for the first time, Trump bragging on an Access Hollywood bus about grabbing women by the pussy and moving on them “like a bitch,” or stalking Hillary Clinton around a debate stage, or seeing the testimonies of the more than 25 women who have reported being sexually assaulted by him. “Dads voted for this?” read one incredulous caption.
She doesn’t speak for all women. Who does she think she is?
MAGA is popular on TikTok. It's not like Facebook. Or Twitter before Elon Musk.
What a nasty person.
Is “blessed” a microaggression now, Clara? You need help. And a bridge so you can get over it.
I’m a woman. You don’t speak for me, Clara.
“Of Misogyny, Musk, and Men. Women are not okay. We’re furious.”
i assume Mother Jones must be speaking about herself, rather than the royal “we” ...
Exactly! Social media has really brought out women’s over-emoting. Little do they know that the more emotion that goes into a decision, the worse that decision becomes. I wouldn’t want my wife to run the country I’ll tell you that much.
Another ugly, fat leftist Karen. Hey “sweety,” shave your head, wear a blue bracelet and buy yourself a few cats and a dildo.
News flash! Left wing women are angry at everybody. Who knew? The studies that show that a high percentage of left wing women suffer from mental illness may be under estimated.
Indeed.
My first thought was the man whom she ended the engagement with dodged a bullet figuratively and quite possibly literally.
These unhinged women think they have more power than they do, and the future is even worse for them mentally than even they have imagined on their narcissistic TikTok rants.
Bitter and lonely, and blaming everyone but themselves
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