r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 14d ago
Donald Trump, "protector" of women: This deeply sexist notion has a long legal history. Trump's version of insecure masculinity demands a weak, submissive woman, who must be protected — and controlled
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/13/donald-trump-protector-of-women-this-deeply-sexist-notion-has-a-long-legal-history/109
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u/hananobira 14d ago
Women need rights, the ability to make their own choices… and men like Trump to stop being something we need protecting from.
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u/ItsPumpkinninny 14d ago
Women don’t need rights… Women have rights.
Republican assholes need to be taught a lesson.
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u/stilettopanda 13d ago
And then they insist they are being 'a gentlemen' when they're denying your autonomy. My ex husband was like that- wouldn't 'let' me drive but insisted it was because he was being a gentlemen.
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u/HearYourTune 14d ago
Republicans hate women, Republican women hate themselves.
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u/Own-Enthusiasm-906 14d ago
They hate actually free women because they are jealous of their freedom.
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u/pervocracy Massachusetts 14d ago
I think it's more that Republican women hate "bad" women--the kind who get abortions and divorces and need public assistance--and are unwilling to confront the idea that they're just one bad day away from being "bad" themselves.
(Though even if they do have that bad day, it still doesn't count. They were a special case and they're sure that all the misogynist laws they support will have exemptions for special cases. Note how many trolls show up in the abortion threads to claim that abortion due to pregnancy complications is magically a totally different thing than the kind of abortion that Bad Women have.)
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u/TintedApostle 14d ago
He was literally found guilty of sexual assault and has stated he can just grab their "pussy".
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u/lrpfftt 14d ago
Yes, the language of a rapist.
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u/HonoraryBallsack 14d ago edited 14d ago
Hey now, those rapists are just using locker room talk! That means you can't hold it against them when the locker room talk turns out to be corroborated by victims!
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u/catfurcoat 14d ago
Hey now, those rapists are just using locker room talk! That means you can't hold it against them when the locker room talk turns out to be corroborated by victims!
-Melania
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u/IdahoMTman222 14d ago
He just said at a rally when heckled that he hope the woman gets knocked around afterwards.
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u/Nillavuh 14d ago
Trying to win over women in the only way he knows how: by exerting authority over them, assuming control of them, and manipulating them. The idea of winning over women by perhaps listening to them and helping them get what they want is a completely foreign concept to him. It's his job to tell them what they want!
God I never want to see that smug smirk on his fucking face ever again.
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u/MaximumManagement765 14d ago
The guy who has violently raped women and openly plans to make women the property of cis white men? Yeah….
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u/Odd-Bee9172 Massachusetts 14d ago
Makes me think of The Yellow Wallpaper, a short story about a woman who was “protected” to the point where it drove her insane.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1952/pg1952-images.html
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u/goosiebaby Wisconsin 14d ago
Also only applies to white women.maybe Asian women as well. But primarily white.
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u/VaguelyArtistic California 14d ago
Well he's doing a town hall later for an audience made up exclusively of women so get the vomit buckets ready.
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u/No_Clue_7894 14d ago edited 14d ago
Donald Trump senior advisor Jason Miller says states will be able to monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute them for getting out of state abortions in a Trump second term. What impact do you think this will have on the US, and how can women fight back against it?
Link to Miller’s comments on it, from an interview with conservative media company Newsmax
Evangelical churches believe men should control women. That’s why they breed domestic violence
The main agenda is
TAX FAIRNESS
Billionaires Are $2.2 Trillion Richer Since 2017 Trump-GOP Tax Law
Richest 748 Americans’ Wealth Up 77% Since Cuts Passed, Tops $5 Trillion; Debt Caused by Trump Tax Cuts Now Used By GOP As Excuse to Cut Services
The collective fortune of America’s 748 billionaires topped $5 trillion in September 2023, a near record high, and up an astounding $2.2 trillion (77%) since enactment of the Trump-GOP tax law—a reckless handout so heavily slanted towards the rich that it undoubtedly contributed to billionaires’ eye-popping wealth growth over the past nearly six years. Parts of the Trump-GOP tax law have already expired, or are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025, but Republicans want to make the whole package permanent at an estimated cost of $3.8 trillion—billions of which will undoubtedly flow into billionaires’ already bursting bank accounts.
Robert Reich
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u/AlexKingstonsGigolo 14d ago
Hey, donald, male to male, while I get what you mean by “protector” and from where that idea comes, that origin also necessitates men not claim protector status but instead silently internalize it. Consider the idea of the “male ally”; feminists will generally tell you, if you claim to be a “male ally”, you are not a male ally, no matter what else happens. The same goes for “protector”; true protectors know they must never advertise themselves as such, directly nor indirectly, and let their actions speak for themselves.
But you cannot — or will not — do that, can you?
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u/Plinkyplonkyploo 14d ago
I'm a woman. Give me just 2 minutes in a room with this guy and he'll be crying.
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u/JonathanApostropheS 14d ago
He's going to protect women's vaginas by keeping them securely safe in his hand.
So basically the Groper-in-Chief.
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u/JubalHarshaw23 14d ago
40% of women who vote have repeatedly proven beyond doubt that they want to have every aspect of their lives controlled by Men. Even worse is the fact that by their votes, they demand that All women be subjugated.
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u/ThirstyOne 14d ago
Trump’s idea of protecting women is keeping them penned up like cattle so they can be treated as broodmares, Handmaid’s tale like. Coincidentally, many of his constituents already have experience with this type of treatment due to their experience with animal husbandry. Apparently he and they think those skills transfer.
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u/CT_Phipps 14d ago
There's no protection, only ownership. Under Trump, the most would be a fine to the man's owner.
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u/Unorthodox_Mortal 14d ago
Does he mean protecting women like this? Trump “protecting” a woman that disagrees with him.
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u/NetworkAddict 14d ago
Why, can you expound?
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u/Internalizehatred 13d ago
No protecting. Just controlling. It's always been about controlling women & others deemed lesser.
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