One thing to keep in mind about a lot of Trump supporters is that they perceive they are undergoing a lot of hardship. (Most of them actually aren’t doing at all bad.)
People who view things as not going well their way lash out at easily targeted groups. Minorities of all sorts. Immigrants. And of course women. There’s a lot of women bashing going on within this group.
Note that among all these targeted groups, one and only went went for Trump.
This is very, very odd. Why align yourself with people who are targeting you? Sure, there’s always a few who align unexpectedly. But the sheer numbers here for white women is astonishing.
There is no rational explanation for this.
(Now why the people worried about jobs going overseas, income inequality, etc. would go with Trump: the person least able, qualified or interested in helping them is another irrational universe. It’s like a drowning person opting for an anvil over a life vest.)
There, there, honey - you just voted for Trump because you don’t know what’s good for you. It’s not your fault - you just got emotional. We know that things like that happen.
So next time, just listen to what we tell you and do as you are told.
I haven’t had the exact same experience, but I know very well where you are coming from. With specific regards to the teachers, there are some teachers who used their educational classroom setting as a way of setting right past wrongs in their life. If they were bullied as a kid, they tend to stand up for students who remind them of them. So it’s possible that the female teachers who bullied or mocked you might either have simply just disliked men or boys, or maybe they grew up in a family that was anti-girl and they are taking out their frustrations on men as a way of getting catharsis for their own personal grievances. Unfortunately, the problem with that is that it just sets up the cycle to repeat itself. Those boys might grow up to be anti-women themselves.
But yes, boys and men face unique challenges too, and I think society is finally taking note. I was very heartened to see the backlash against the “Boys are Stupid, Throw Rocks at Them” T-shirts a while back.
The implication being that an objective measure of economic condition is equivalent to a dismissal of experiences of discrimination by members of a dominant group who don’t experience it?
White woman here. Nope, she’s not too hard on white women. I also don’t know that she’s quite saying they’re “the” problem. I think any white woman complaining that Bee is being too hard on them should just be glad what she says is at least delivered in a humorous way!
For the record, I don’t think someone regretting how they voted (or didn’t vote) or how others in their group did or didn’t vote equals feeling “ashamed of who they are.” It might just be stark recognition that numbers matter.
I don’t understand your last statement. What people “act like these women have no agency”? Do you mean Samantha Bee? Because that’s not at all how I interpret her criticisms.
Stop doing the false equivalence thing. First off, many of us are the white working class, so we know exactly how bad we have it. I know my life is better off than many people of color. I had a good school, for one thing. I didn’t have gang violence. I have both my parents. And I have enough money to afford this Internet connection.
We also have actual data showing that most Trump voters are better off than they claim to be. I know for a fact that nearly everyone I know who voted for Trump has much more money than me. Because nearly everyone I know is better off financially than me. They just think they aren’t, acting like it’s horrible not to be able to afford a vacation to Disney World this year.
This meme of trying to tu quoque everything doesn’t work. It will never work. Because the situations will never be the same. The white working class has problems, but none of them are the problems that minorities have. Working class blacks always have the white working class problems PLUS other “black” problems.