I recently came across this absolute gem of an AITA post: https://np.reddit.com/r/AITAH/s/hpSgzM6p3J
Basically: the OP's husband is 64 years old, basically retired and on prescription meds. She currently pays for everything. Their current pharmacy is having shortages (the OP explained this in the comments but left it out in the post), so her husband wants to switch to a smaller local pharmacy. However, the pharmacy's owner is a MAGA Trump supporter, so the OP is refusing to let her husband switch and leveraging her financial position to enforce this.
Now, this is a TEXTBOOK EXAMPLE of financial abuse. Her husband has a very good reason to switch- he can't get the medicine he needs-while her refusal to let him switch is based on a political disagreement with the owner. She also fails to understand that the owner being MAGA doesn't make the pharmacy MAGA- there are likely lots of non-MAGA people in the local community working for the pharmacy, who she would be supporting by going to it. (Shouldn't the left be advocating for supporting local businesses over large corporations anyway? Not when the big bad orange man is involved, I guess.)
So even disregarding the original pharmacy's shortage, her behavior is very controlling, and borderline abusive. Taking it into account, her behavior is a textbook example of financial abuse.
Now you might say, this is just one shitty woman, who cares. But what's truly damning is the comments- most of them are by women, and they are absolutely deranged. Literally every single top comment, with a massive number of upvotes, is unequivocally supporting the OP and saying "NTA", and instead mocking the husband's financial position (e.g. calling him a "worthless leech"), accusing him of being a "full on MAGAt" by mere virtue of slightly leaning Republican (which in turns justifies any abuse inflicted upon him), urging the woman to divorce her fascist Nazi worthless leech of a husband, etc. You have to sort by controversial to reach the actual sane comments. So that shows you this isn't the mindset of a singular deranged woman, it's the DOMINANT mindset among modern women.
Just imagine if the genders were reversed, or BOTH the gender and political orientation was reversed. What kind of response do you think that would get?
Back to the point: THIS relationship is the type of relationship you look forwards to with a modern woman. She is so self-righteously and dogmatically committed to her political ideology that she proudly denies her partner necessary healthcare just for a meaningless gesture. And other women will overwhelmingly CHEER ON this abuse, and mock and victim-blame the man.
Is this a relationship any man would want to go into? It's not surprising that a lot of young men are becoming misogynists and supporting figures like Trump and Tate, when this is the mindset of the average woman they deal with on a daily basis.
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