Explain like I'm 5

VariousScallion8597 · 2024-11-07T12:48:18+00:00

Look at the total number of voters. Look at the percentage of women of any race. You will see that women outnumber men. If women voted as a single bloc they would dominate all elections. So just in terms of raw numbers any group that large will be catered to.

Next women have influence over men. You can see that in the "be a man vote for a woman" stuff. Women can influence a percentage of men so that's a force multiplier. Every female vote is maybe 1.1 or more of a male vote because of the multiplier of influence.

Next, women dominate fields that are communication driven. Media. Tv. Press. They can help shape the narrative. Trump goes to talk to black journalists. There are ZERO black men on the panel. All women. Pushing their agenda. When men have power they share, when women have power they dominate.

So women provide votes which are the only things that matter and they shape the narrative to influence more votes directly or indirectly.

Finally women are emotional and also highly selfish and very susceptible to flattery. Pandering to them can pay big dividends.

So if you are a politician are YOU really going to piss off women to support men?

RoryTate · 2024-11-07T13:13:03+00:00

People are actually not very good at judging their own safety objectively (note: this applies to both sexes). Modern feminism is built perfectly to make this group fear much, much worse for its members. It also provides a convenient scapegoat (all men are to blame). So women sitting in the comfort and safety of their own home can often be made so afraid of the dangerous outside world that they are scared to leave. And since they make up over 50% of the voting population, creating and then curing their fears can be a winning political strategy.

In the end, Feminism isn't the sole reason for the unequal focus. This trend is also driven by dishonest and lazy politicians, combined with selfishness by those who vote for them.

HonestlyKindaOverIt · 2024-11-07T13:55:12+00:00

I listened to a podcast Warren Farrell was on a few years ago (I can’t remember which one, sorry!) and the bit that stuck with me was that he mentioned in the run up to the 2020 election he was in contact with both Biden and Trump and their teams regarding fatherlessness. While both parties agreed it was an issue, neither one of them wanted to touch it as it was felt it would alienate women.

That’s the reality. Anything that is seen to be helpful for men is deemed as coming at the expense of women, while the inverse, we have it beaten into us that helping women doesn’t hurt men.

I like to believe this election was a rebutted of some sorts. All of the appeals to vote for Harris were done on the basis it will help women, with no incentive for men. This might spur both parties to get their asses in gear and start treating men’s issues seriously, but I doubt it.

walterwallcarpet · 2024-11-07T12:37:25+00:00

Well, there's this big institution called the United Nations... https://www.un.org/en/conferences/women/beijing1995#:~:text=The%20Beijing%20Declaration%20and%20Platform%20for%20Action%2C%20adopted,the%20key%20global%20policy%20document%20on%20gender%20equality

And this other big one, called the World Economic Forum https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/02/women-matriarchal-society-improved-health-patriarchy/

And things called Non-Government Organisations, and Charities, and shadowy organisations that no one has ever voted for, all working away feverishly. https://www.populationmedia.org/the-latest/ending-the-patriarchy-a-pathway-to-equality-and-regeneration#:~:text=Studies%20have%20shown%20that%20when%20women%20are%20empowered%2C,have%20control%20over%20their%20bodies%20and%20reproductive%20choices

And Investment Banks https://www.2xglobal.org/new-to-gender-lens-investing/why-invest-with-a-gender-lens

And Heads of Business. This one, Ann Francke is author of 'Create a Gender-Balanced Workplace'. It claims that doing so will add 25trillion to the economy, although the currency isn't specified, and she doesn't give a primary reference. That workplace sure looks like fun for men. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51261999

And.... well, you get the picture.

FluffyCategory11 · 2024-11-07T13:59:45+00:00

It’s because politicians need a boogeyman for the voters to fear if they aren’t confident in their own policies. The left has been running with the idea that Trump will federally ban abortion, when the man himself has vowed to veto any federal abortion ban that hits his desk. It’s all fearmongering. Trump wants to leave it to the states to decide and make their own laws, which is a pretty standard conservative stance for many political issues.

But the left won’t pass a federal allowance for abortion no matter how much they promise. Biden had 4 years, Obama had 8. Remember that Roe V Wade was overturned in 2022, during Biden’s presidency. Why wouldn’t they pass it? Same reason weed is still federally illegal. They want to keep dangling these promises in front of voters faces so they can stay in power.

63daddy · 2024-11-07T15:25:17+00:00

Society is gynocentric.
Feminism has a strong lobby including a huge propaganda machine.
Education and media support feminism and women’s issues.
There are more women voters and women voters are more swayed by social issues than men are, so politicians pander to the female vote.

jack_avram · 2024-11-07T14:20:32+00:00

They have plenty of rights and money - time to hit the pause. When you empower men, they stand up for their own rights. The hell with matriarchal and patriarchal societies, we need a pro-humanity society against this rapid AI arms race that certainly isn't capable of being of human interests that require being a human that remembers its own humanity and priority as a species. Mass warring factions of polarization, or a lack of harmony and flow in a system's own design, seems to get cancered and conquered. Practically a universal law of chaos and order orchestrating a process of creation and evolution of existing creations. We've deviated from our own creation.

Clockw0rk · 2024-11-07T15:03:59+00:00

Like your five:

Because women have an enormous in group bias. Of all the known ways to get someone to support your political platform, the most effective is by appearing to care for their cause. Women are great for politics because they’re extremely easy to convince that you support them, you just pretend to go along with their vanity and selfishness by saying you’ll do more than the other team to protect them.

You don’t even have to have a coherent strategy to help them in any way, just say loudly and often that you’re in their corner, and you automatically appeal to the popular victim mentality of the modern feminist movement and secure the “woman vote”, which is a big deal since they both vote more and spend more money than men do.

Men are the pack mules of society, and mostly always have been. The myth of male power comes from a wild misunderstanding of capitalism, because while feminism proclaims that men have always had power and subjugated women with all their ill gotten gains, the reality is that only those with wealth ever attain “power”. Those below the poverty line simply do not matter to those who control the economy. The color of your skin or bits of flesh between your legs don’t the slightest bit matter in the scramble for scraps from the plutocrats’ table.

And until a larger part of society wakes up and sees the broken system for what it is…

True change is a pipe dream.

honeydewlightly · 2024-11-07T16:06:19+00:00

Because of you. To make you feel hopeless and give up before the battle. What better way to demoralize and divide men than make them think all women hate them unless they vote for the demonic candidate? Divide and conquer. Make women fear and irrationally hate men. Make men turn on each other. Yes, a lot of women are brainwashed into believing the narrative.... But that's not the why.

The why is power.

It's the art of war

vegatx40 · 2024-11-07T12:59:54+00:00

Bill burr has thoughts...

Adorable_Collar_9694 · 2024-11-07T14:11:42+00:00

It is the Hegelian Dialect they create a real problem or a perceived problem that is mentally exacerbated by media which 70% to 80% is owned by the same companies then they provide a solution its all a scam and why I do not watch TV. Investigative research into history, science, engineering, philosophy, sociology, etc is far more thrilling than anything the corporate government controlled brainwashing TV programs can provide.

Pretend-Assumption-9 · 2024-11-07T14:49:58+00:00

It is because men in power will fight back for what is to come. Women in turn will fight on behalf of the one who sets a narrative.

Men are needed to fight back for what is to come - The rule of the elites, here is what AI is going to be taking over - the opportunity to make money or thrive. When you have no money people will go back to the basics, hard manual labour or maybe that will also be gone. But the elite and their families will stay rich forever. Women are being used as scapegoats they are easy to control and they will fight on behalf of them. It is not just the USA that this is happening in. It is happening in every single country.

wordjedi · 2024-11-07T15:35:07+00:00

The scales fell from my eyes and now I see them as a vast easily manipulated voting bloc to gain power

Adorable_Collar_9694 · 2024-11-07T14:07:48+00:00

It is psychological warfare. The Bill of Rights are inalienable so if your alive you have rights and they cannot be taken from you. They make people feel as though they are in danger of losing something or don't have something, etc. so that they can pass arbitrary amendments or bills that are hundreds to thousands of pages long in legal jargon to take more money and power for themselves and their friends namely wall street, corporations, and government agencies to squander and steal. Not saying capitalism is bad however its been corrupted and so has out government to an insane point.

whoaitsmarsh · 2024-11-07T15:46:02+00:00

Woman here, joined to learn and help where I can, and I have a genuine question.

Is there anyone in this group that organizes protests? Are you organizing and making a plan to bring your issues (suicide rates, circumcision, rape, etc) to your local and state officials? Are you meeting up with each other to discuss solutions or actionable things?

It seems like (a lot but not all) women have a sense of responsibility to one another, we feel a sense of community and support one another. I don't really see that here, and not to offend - but I see a lot of complaints and articles and discussions about how "shutting down and closing ourselves off is the only way to go" - but I don't see a lot of actual support and/or connection between men.

The pussy hats have been criticized because they were "ridiculous" - but you remember them. People still talk about them now. I would happily put a dick shaped hat on and march to Washington to support y'all. But I see zero organization.

I want to help. I want you to be heard. I want you to be happy and accepted. The women who love you can't help if you're not fighting.

BlueThespian · 2024-11-07T18:01:46+00:00

Because historically men have always been dumbasses that have prioritized women before themselves, it’s always men working the odd jobs, fighting, and dying in order for women to reap the rewards along with financial stability. In the modern world for each woman that chooses the desk job, the easy position; there is a man that has to fill the gap in the shittiest position posible in order to leverage the work distribution and make things work. If there aren’t men present nothing gets done, work doesn’t get done, and it doesn’t matter how many woman are in the work place NONE will do the job as carefully and with the same responsibility as a man.

randonumero · 2024-11-07T13:40:54+00:00

It's not always women's rights but it is generally more about the rights of a potentially marginalized group than the economy. I'm not going to call it a problem but the democrats clearly see championing rights as their primary platform. That means they're always going to look for the potential victim and put their plight (current or potential) front and center.

I think apart of that approach has to do with the number of older democrats in safe seats as well as the facts that it's hard to run on hope and the party doesn't want to embrace running on lies.

To be fair women are pissed because many of them read or have met people who lived in times where women had less rights. It's the same reason some black people are laughing at Latinos who can't pass for white but voted for Trump. Like it or not he's been vocal about removing rights from certain groups.

Last thing I'll say is that women's rights and women's services are good for economic growth. Access to birth control and abortion might mean less low skill workers but it means that we have more skilled workers as women have more choice over reproduction. Obviously that's not great for some people but overall having women in the workforce and especially having women who delay becoming parents until they're more financially stable seems to have positively impacted productivity

SomeWomanInCanada · 2024-11-07T14:28:02+00:00

Women are losing rights. Men can now claim they think they’re women and can go into any girls pool change room and strip down naked to change into his bathing suit. Regardless of how he presents.

Title	Explain like I'm 5
Author	skinnylifter01
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Date	November 7, 2024 12:20 PM UTC (1 year ago)
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