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How Bad Do You Want It, Ladies?
The New York Times ^ | Oct. 26, 2024, 7:10 a.m. ET | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 10/26/2024 10:42:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Usually, I get political wisdom from Rahm Emanuel, not his brother Ari.

But a quote from Ari, the Hollywood macher, to Puck’s Matthew Belloni about the gender chasm in 2024 caught my eye.

“This election is gonna come down to probably 120,000 votes,” Ari said. “You probably have 60 percent of the male vote for Trump, and the female vote is 60-40 for Kamala. It’s a jump ball. We’re gonna find out who wants this more — men or women.”

Are we back to the days of Mars versus Venus? Or did we never leave?

It is the ultimate battle of the sexes in the most visceral of elections. Who will prevail? The women, especially young women, who are appalled at the cartoonish macho posturing and benighted stances of Donald Trump and his entourage? Or the men, including many young men, union men, Latino and Black men, who are drawn to Trump’s swaggering, bullying and insulting, seeing him as the reeling-backward antidote to shrinking male primacy.

Drilling into the primal yearnings of men and women — their priorities, identities, anger and frustration — makes this election even more fraught. When I wrote a book about gender in 2005, I assumed that, a couple of decades later, we’d all be living peacefully on the same planet. But no Cassandra, I. The sexual revolution intensified our muddle, leaving women in a tangle of dependence and independence in the 21st century. The more we imitated men, the more we realized how different we were.

Progress zigzags. But it was dispiriting to see the fierce backlash to Geraldine Ferraro, Anita Hill and Hillary Clinton’s co-presidency and candidacy.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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1 posted on 10/26/2024 10:42:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dowdy doodee!


2 posted on 10/26/2024 10:44:48 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just one question, Mo. Are you including men who identify as women?


3 posted on 10/26/2024 10:45:53 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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>> it was dispiriting to see the fierce backlash to Geraldine Ferraro, Anita Hill and Hillary Clinton’s co-presidency and candidacy

The backlash wasn’t because they’re womyn... it’s because they’re evil, or idiots, or both. Same reason we don’t take crap from you, Maureen.


4 posted on 10/26/2024 10:46:30 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

For as often as they keep disparaging men, you would think male voters would vote 75-25 for Trump.


5 posted on 10/26/2024 10:50:41 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Maureen Dowd doesn’t speak for womyn. Rachel Levine is their standard bearer.


6 posted on 10/26/2024 10:52:01 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

White liberal women are the most insane

Video
Unhinged Kamala Supporter screams at toddler in a stroller in Houston
https://rumble.com/v5k89lp-unhinged-kamala-supporter-screams-at-toddler-in-a-stroller.html


7 posted on 10/26/2024 10:52:16 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Democrats: The party of women and the men who fear them.©️


8 posted on 10/26/2024 10:55:46 AM PDT by clintonh8r (The truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Woo hoo! A CZJ thread!

Upp, oop. I mean, yay, A MoDo thread.

I only read these threads for the comments.

9 posted on 10/26/2024 10:56:45 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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and black women continue to believe the lies peddled by the Democrats.


10 posted on 10/26/2024 10:56:47 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You’ve seen the responses of men why they no longer court or marry women. The mental state of women is creating a tectonic change in western civilization.


11 posted on 10/26/2024 10:58:39 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The election is not about the sexes. It’s about choosing between a straight-talking, confident, tireless, competent person who will move the country back towards its former greatness, or a weak, blathering, incompetent who will lock the country in a nightmare of marxism.


12 posted on 10/26/2024 11:01:27 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How bad do you want it ladies? The jokes write themselves.


13 posted on 10/26/2024 11:02:24 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Rules! Maureen Dowd.


14 posted on 10/26/2024 11:03:09 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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15 posted on 10/26/2024 11:07:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Nervous Tick

She didn’t mention the backlash to Sarah Palin. Hmmmmmm


16 posted on 10/26/2024 11:07:19 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: I want the USA back

And I’m choosing the MAGA side.


17 posted on 10/26/2024 11:08:40 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: lurk

This proves how spoiled most western women are, that’s assuming they’re even biological females to begin with.


18 posted on 10/26/2024 11:10:24 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
How Bad Do You Want It, Ladies?

If women want Que Mala Harris, they are welcome to her! Unfortunately that means that they force her on everyone else.

As an aside, several of my college-educated. women friends - by no means stupid women - are all in for Harris. There is no reasoning with them. And frankly I can't understand their support for her.

19 posted on 10/26/2024 11:11:16 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: janetjanet998

Where did the unhinged woman scream at the toddler?


20 posted on 10/26/2024 11:11:33 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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