Women’s perceptions of doom and gloom in a Trump America.
Readership: All
Theme: Virtue
Length: 2,400 words
Reading Time: 13 minutes
Let’s check in on American women since the presidential election of 2024. I’ve taken excerpts from three articles. I recommend that readers follow the links to read the complete articles.
Case Study 1 — A Return to Normal
The first article is from The Salt Lake Tribune: I’m 16. On Nov. 5, the girls cried and the boys played Minecraft. (2024/11/19).
“On the morning after the election, I walked up the staircase of my school. A preteen was crying into the shoulders of her braces-clad peer. Her friend was rubbing circles on her back.
I continued up the stairs to the lounge, where upperclassmen linger before classes. There I saw two tables: One was filled with my girlfriends, many of them with hollows under their eyes. There was a blanket of despair over the young women in the room. I looked over to the other table of teenage boys and saw Minecraft on their computers. While we were gasping for a breath, it seemed they were breathing freely.”
Sounds to me like the boys had their priorities straight.
“What made my skin burn most wasn’t that over 75 million people voted for Donald Trump. It was that this election didn’t seem to measurably change anything for the boys around me, whether their parents supported Mr. Trump or not. Many of them didn’t seem to share our rage, our fear, our despair. We don’t even share the same future.”
What could possibly be the problem?
“I am scared that the Trump administration will take away or restrict birth control and Plan B — the same way they did abortion.”
Of course. She’s afraid that she won’t be allowed to mur.der her baby in the womb. In New York. Seriously.
“Why did it seem these boys were so unperturbed? I worried that my guy friends might only care about women until it conflicts with other, more pressing, priorities.”
Says a person who never has to worry about trivialities like being drafted.
“That morning, I spoke with a male classmate. He asked if I was OK. I nearly melted with relief. See, I knew not all guys were ignorant! Then, before I responded, he continued. Why, he wondered, are so many girls crying? I stared. I swallowed that familiar lump. And I had one thought: I pray that my older brother never asks that question. How could my classmate not know why girls in his grade were biting their nails and doing breathing exercises in the bathroom? It seemed like our future was sliding down the sides of our faces, and he asked me why we were crying? I have never felt that disconnected from men.”
So, let me get this straight. A boy asked her if she was OK. He asked her why she and all the other girls were crying. She never bothered to tell him what was wrong, nor did she ever bother to ask any of the boys their thoughts, but it’s the boys who lack empathy?
Sadly typical woman.
“I saw it in the eyes of women in my subway car that morning. I saw it in the barista at the coffee shop on the corner, the female security guard at my school and in the face of my history teacher.”
So, women behaved hysterically when their preferred candidate lost, but they expect us to elect a woman president. Really?
“In a terrible way, I’ve never felt more part of a sisterhood or more certain that pain is shared within that family. I wish the consequences of this moment for young women punctured the apparent indifference of so many men and boys I saw that day. I wish they could breathe in what the women and girls I know have been inhaling since Nov. 5.”
I was 17 when I enlisted. At 18, I had to register for Selective Service, even though I was already serving. I wasn’t even an American citizen yet. I wasn’t even allowed to vote, but I could be drafted. And these silly bints are going into hysterics over the extremely unlikely possibility that they may not be allowed to mur.der their babies in the womb in a deep Blue state? Seriously?
“I can’t predict how well I’m going to do on an English test tomorrow and I definitely can’t predict the future for me and my fellow young women. For now, all I can do is tell you how I feel.”
She’s making excuses and venting her feelings. Sadly typical woman.
Case Study 2 — Gender Polarity
The second article is from The Guardian: The boys in our liberal school are different now that Trump has won (2024/11/15).
“When we walked into school on the morning of 6 November, we exchanged quick glances with the other girls in our social circle — looks filled with uncertainty and dread about the future. Because we are applying to colleges all around the country and about to leave our homes in the Hudson Valley, political issues suddenly have begun to feel a lot more personal.”
Hudson Valley, huh? Sounds swanky. From Wikipedia:
“The region stretches from the Capital District including Albany and Troy south to Yonkers in Westchester County, bordering New York City.”
Yep. Pretty swanky.
“Access to abortion and contraception, protection of the environment, and the growing hate and violence toward marginalized groups all have the potential to greatly impact our lives. We had only brief conversations about why Trump’s victory felt so defeating, but our shared disappointment stuck with us as we walked to our first period classes.”
Here we go again. “We live in a wealthy leftist city in leftist New York State, but we’re ‘oppressed’ because Idaho is allowed to have a law that restricts women from mur.dering their babies in the womb.”
“But as we sat down at our desks, we noticed a very different attitude among our male peers. Subtle high-fives were exchanged and remarks about the impending success of the next four years were whispered around. It didn’t make much sense. We live in a mostly liberal town in the Hudson Valley where Harris-Walz signs were posted outside of most of our friends’ houses. This is not to say that families with dissenting opinions don’t live in our town. But the boys that were the most vocal in their enthusiasm about the election results have progressive parents just like ours.”
Again, did she bother to ask the boys their thoughts?
“As these startling observations made us look back on the last couple of years, we started to realize that maybe this wasn’t as unexpected as we thought. An increased interest in pursuing the ideal masculine appearance by going to the gym…”
I mean, the girls could do what women have done for eons and enjoy the beefcake.
Or not.
“… and the creation of new male-dominated social activities like the infamous exclusive poker nights had seemed innocent and had been easy to write off as typical boyhood behavior.”
God forbid that boys should enjoy each other’s company. Are girl-only activities equally problematic?
“It hadn’t taken long for this focus on machismo to creep into these boys’ mindsets and conversations. Seemingly harmless disrespectful comments with witty undertones toward girls became commonplace, and feelings of traditional male dominance started to sneak back into our friend groups.”
So, boys making “Seemingly harmless disrespectful comments with witty undertones toward girls” is a portent of The Handmaid’s Tale, but excoriating the boys publicly in an internationally-read newspaper is just peachy. Okie-dokie.
“Upon reflection, we both recall speaking about stereotypically masculine interests or topics and then hearing snickering exchanges between the boys in the room followed by targeted belittling retorts disguised as trivial jokes. It genuinely felt as though they viewed us as unintelligent or even inferior.”
Maybe try being a little less stereotypically hysterical?
By the way, did you know that the word “hysteria” derives from the Greek “hystera”, meaning “womb”? “Hystera” is also the root word of “hysterectomy”. In other words, in modern parlance, being hysterical means acting like a womb-bearing-person. If you don’t like a stereotype, try not reinforcing it.
“And the most dangerous aspect of this is how little it’s talked about in mainstream media and how easily it has been overlooked in progressive communities. In fact, this is an epidemic that will continue to spread rapidly until we start talking about it.”
Are you serious? “Toxic masculinity”, m!s0gyny, machismo, etc. have been perpetual topics of conversation for longer than I’ve been alive, and I’m almost 50.
“So look closely because these boys will be among the voters responsible for deciding our future elections.”
From your mouth to God’s ear, little miss. But what about the girls? Can they learn, even if it requires painful experience? I mean, even amoebas are smart enough to turn away from pain.
Case Study 3 — Nine Lives
The third article is from Chronicles: Childless Cat Ladies for Law and Order (2024/11/21).
“I am a woman living alone near Philadelphia with a cat, so I guess you could call me a “childless cat lady.” I never wanted children, so I never had any.”
Hopefully she didn’t mur.der any.
“Since I have dedicated my life to helping other people, for many years I subscribed to all of the social justice causes. That began to change when the neighborhood I live in became a hotbed of crime and leftist intolerance.”
There’s that false altruism.
“Yesterday I stopped by a cafe for a bagel. I began frequenting this locally owned cafe after walking past it one Sunday morning and seeing that all its storefront windows had been smashed. I went in and asked if everyone was OK. Apparently, the vandalism had occurred in the predawn hours of the morning. Nothing was stolen — just windows smashed.
I later discovered that on the neighborhood Facebook group people were extoling the act as a way to fight gentrification! The cafe is not a chain and it employs residents of the neighborhood. But that didn’t stop commenters from suggesting that smashing out their windows, gunfire, and loud groups of youth are all good ways to ward off would-be gentrifiers.”
It would certainly ward me off.
“I should have seen it coming. Two summers ago, I was taking my Sunday morning walk, chatting with a friend on the phone while I took pictures of summer flowers. I happened to be relaying the opinion of one of my friends who lives in Europe and is opposed to tr@ns women (biological males) in women’s sports. While I was merely mentioning my friend’s opinion on an issue to which I’d never given any thought, in a private phone conversation, two large white people who looked like women started screaming, “Fck you! Fck you!” at me. I kept walking. I am a petite woman and I try to avoid danger. I was so shaken that for weeks I spoke in code about anything that might be controversial if I was in public. People no longer respectfully disagree. They shout you down in a way that threatens worse.”
Kind of like some of us have been saying for decades.
“Of course I want to move. I do not care if people don’t like me, but I fear violence. Violence is so well accepted in this neighborhood, as my experience noted above shows.”
Oh, hell. Here we go.
“When I drove through central Pennsylvania a few weeks ago, I felt my blood pressure go down as I left the city and saw the trees. I was not bothered at all by the alternating Trump and Harris lawn signs. I would feel fine living next to people who voted however they voted, as long as they do not threaten violence against me (or my cat!).”
But, will she move there and vote the same, like a locust?
“A few months ago, there was a meme on Facebook that showed a white woman saying, “I don’t feel safe in my neighborhood,” and a man answered her, “You literally voted for this.” I now understand that my situation resembles this cartoon.“
Halleluiah!
“I have voted Democrat all my life. I supported soft-on-crime candidates because I didn’t want to see people go to prison and lose their chance at a better life. But now I see the ruin that we have to live with as a result of these policies. The white liberals in the suburbs do not live with the consequences of their votes. I do.”
“Kamala Harris urged women to vote for her in secret, to lie to their husbands about it. The irony is that a lot of women did vote in secret, but their husbands were not who they feared telling. Like me, these women voted Republican and not telling their friends and neighbors.”
Epilogue
There appears to be hope for the young ladies at the beginning of this article, but unfortunately, they may have to be mugged by reality (maybe literally) like the childless cat lady at the end of it.
Fortunately, not all Zoomers are like the girls who penned the tales of woe above.
As I’ve written before on this blog, all you have to do to see that Zoomer boys are moving Right is watch a bunch of them play Helldivers II. Zoomer boys have accurately deduced that Leftists hate them unless they cut off their balls and put on a dress. Unsurprisingly, boys don’t want to do that. Another major factor is that Zoomers are the children of Gen-Xers and early Millennials. Those are the generations that started the trend of having few or no children. Religiously conservative Gen-Xers and Millennials had more children than their secular and/or liberals peers. And the most conservative couples had the most children.
It takes a long time to grow a human being. Consequently, demographic trends take 20 – 40 years to bear fruit. The oldest Zoomers are 27. The youngest are 12. The trend is just starting to bear fruit. I have a 12-years-old son, the youngest of the Zoomers. What do you think will happen when his kids are old enough to vote? Demographics are destiny. If you want an idea of what the country will look like 40 years from now, look at the people driving full size vans full of kids today.
As far as Zoomers go, the question is whether the girls will pull the boys left, or the boys will pull the girls right. I’m betting on the latter.
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