I voted for Hillary in November 2016. I considered myself a Democrat, and couldn't ever imagine voting Republican. But this was all before October 2017.
I still don't like Trump, but his recent tweet about due process was totally reasonable and a breath of fresh air. But he was still attacked for it.
The next time I vote for anyone, the first things I will ask myself are: What did they do during this metoo mob activity? Did they demand resignations for mere accusations without evidence, or did they assume innocence before being proven guilty? Or did they do nothing? These questions practically eliminate every Democratic politician who I would have voted for.
In September of 2017, if you asked me if I would vote for Elizabeth Warren or Kirsten Gillibrand or Kamala Harris in 2020, I would have said yes, without even knowing what my options were from the GOP. No longer.
I feel that the Democratic party is the party of feminists and SJWs, who apparently have conspiracy theories about a patriarchy that I'm supposed to be a part of, which I don't believe I benefit from, which I wasn't even aware existed until October.
After I saw what they did to Aziz Ansari (who, ironically, considered himself part of this mob), I realized things that I might have known about women, but never really believed. The one part of the article that I can't let go of is that they were both naked, at his apartment, and she thought he would play with her hair when they sat down at/by the couch ... naked.
The fact that literate people could read this and defend her infantilism really changed everything for me. It wasn't just two women who wanted to destroy a man. It was women and men in the comments sections who wrote paragraphs about how wrong he was and how it's not easy for women to be assertive in a sexual encounter with a man.
If I believe (and I do) that women are able to be police officers and soldiers, how can I also believe that women are not able to walk out of a room or say "no"? If a woman can kill a man in war, why can't she walk away from a man or talk to him when she becomes disappointed with him?
After reading the Aziz Ansari piece, I feel that this is no longer about rape or sexual assault, but now about wanting to fine tune the behavior of men so that they can have perfect sexual experiences where men know when to play with their hair and when to do something else. And if the man cannot provide a perfect experience, it's okay to publicly shame him.
I am still disillusioned by all this and struggling to come to terms with how things really are.
EDIT 1: Thanks for all the comments; I haven't responded yet because I am taking some time to reflect on what you've all said. For example, "gynocentrism" is a word I've never heard before ... I have a lot of learning to do. The Red Pill, directed by Cassie Jaye, is on my list.
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Ever hear of an Overton Window?
It's a way of moving that "smack dab in the middle" spot.
-- There are several false assumptions in that "magic middle": first it assumes that there are ONLY two factions, two "sides"; second that they are actually even "opposing" each other at all (they might both be pulling in the same direction, just one more strongly than another; third it assumes that not only ARE they opposing each other, but that they are EQUALLY opposing, AND starting from some "ideal" neutral ground.
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I gave up voting a long time ago.
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