Progressive women in America have been hoping that men would become more respectful, more loving, more responsible, more mature. With the election of Trump, progressive women feel they have been defeated, that Trump is a step backward.
For years women have wanted to earn more money and to attain more power. As they succeeded, they became more confident. They also became arrogant. Thus the term “badass women”.
With Trump many men have found a “badass man”. An arrogant man.
He is really a bully, a wimp and immature. But the majority of men who voted for him do not have the common sense to see him that way.
Many American men see their loss of, or no hope for, a comfortable secure place in the world to be a result of America’s institutions focusing on women while neglecting men. Men do not feel free. They sense that in women’s fight to claim freedom there has not been a creation of equality but a shift of respectability and influence from men to women.
Women ask, what about all those horrible things Trump has done to women? Well, what about the female leaders in our colleges talking about a culture of rape, men as potential rapists, all those privileged white men, and for old timers, the Super Bowl lie?
If men regain the confidence and success that they had, somebody like Trump will not be elected. He will be hooted out of the public eye for being unmanly, for not considering it “beneath a man” to take advantage of women.
Trump will do nothing for America’s struggling men. Maybe he will make things worse for women.
Men will feel betrayed. Women already feel a sense of unjust “poetic justice”.
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This country was not founded upon nor made great by men being aggressive against women or attempting to “put them in their place” by violence, harassment and intimidation. Many of these far-right men see some hero in someone like Trump. (Of course I guess none of them see the irony in looking up to one man to “save” the Constitution by being a demagogue that has fantasies of being a dictator and make America like the Founding Fathers wanted it to be, when the founding fathers themselves fought against monarchy.) They believe they can put women down by beating women down, and (given some of their comments) by even raping them or forcing them to be or remain pregnant against their will. They have no restraint. Men were once powerful because they were our protectors and our providers and had a code of honor and showed chivalry and restraint towards women. They might have had authority over women, but they also had duties towards those very same women. But that civilization is gone, and this is all that we have left now. These men today know no sense of either duty nor restraint where women are concerned and they are increasingly becoming violent.
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