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"A woman is like a child": MAGA quickly turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power (www.salon.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

For the believers, I think that tmany would be fine with this. It reinforces their preferred structure of a patriarchy in which they have a well-defined place and role (head of the domestic household, subservient to the man). No worries about having to deal with a fickle job market or figuring out what you want to do with your life. Your life path is set (get married, raise kids, take care of family), and, for some, that well-defined role the status that it conveys is really comforting. It provides a sense of security.

It's why, I expect, while there are many who fight it, there are plenty of women in Muslim societies who are fine with things as they are. We emphasize with those women who chafe at that and fight it since we've history valued the individual rights of self-determination and freedom, of course.

Thats a big allure of the American taliban to some folks. It provides structure and defined roles in a chaotic world.

Of course, republican men like it for the power, but more importantly, that women voters mostly vote against them. Stopping women from voting would cement them in power.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 43 minutes ago* (last edited 41 minutes ago)

Scanning the article, the practical threat (besides crazy ideological stunts) seems to be stealth disenfranchisement of this type:

House Republicans passed a bill (which stalled in the Senate) this session to require citizens to have a passport or birth certificate matching their name to vote. This would be a back-door ban on voting for any woman who took her husband's last name and doesn't have a passport, an estimated 69 million women. It would also disproportionately affect Republican women, who are more likely to be married, more likely to have changed their name and less likely to have a passport.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 hours ago

Republican women: dehumanizing themselves to pwn the libs since Reagan.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Project 2025 will create the Christian Taliban. I highly doubt the dumb fuck female MAGA voters will realize what they voted for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Some of them are stupid enough to want it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

Some of them want to be subservient. I've heard some even lament voting before. The Christian brainwashing is pervasive to all parts of life.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Under his eye

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Eyeliner

[+] [email protected] -14 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You could've said you wanted to get blocked directly instead of being a giant cunt.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 hour ago

Calm down.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

Well that's the most delusional thing I've heard in a while.

Did you know that women's brains develop faster? Different sources say different years, but it seems to lie between 1 to 5 years on average depending on what age you look at.

Estrogens stimulate development of the frontal lobe. Executive functions, risk-assesment and empathy to name a few tasks it does. Which plays a role in why girls with a developmental disorder, are often able to compensate enough (masking) to keep up with their peers, or even be in the top of the class. Boys on the other hand are less lucky, and their grades are affected more clearly by the same disorders. ASD, AD(H)D, dyslexia/dyscalculi to name a few. Interestingly, hyperlexia is almost only seen in girls. While it is a developmental disorder, it often works in their favor in school settings. Estrogens appear to play a role in language development.

Estrogens also improve memory and learning. It's why women have a better memory than men on average, and why they are outperforming men academically on average. Yes, women will remember everything you said to them. For good and bad purposes.

Estrogens also play a role in social development. Which is why girls often prefer playing with toys that have a face on it, and integrate social feedback more often. Part of the reason girls are held to higher standards, which results in girls working harder in school, and suffering more often from performance/achievement related stress.

If anyone has a child's brain at 30, it's you mate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

Sure bud.

I never commented on their actual brain development, only how society treats them which is objectively true and has a real impact.

It's sad watching how desperate you are to avoid reality when you don't like it, but I don't expect more from you people at this point.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 hour ago

This comment shouldn't have been censored. It said "Unfortunately, there's a lot of truth to this. It's a societal and cultural problem where males bend over backwards to enable female's delusions in order to get laid" which is completely true.

Make sure you click the dropdown menu and "View comment moderation history" to see what they're trying to censor from us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Ok, i would like Americans to guess what approximate percentage of the venezuelan population WANTED to vote against Maduro on last ellections.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

My prediction for a future military incel recruitment poster:

Join the America Russia North Korea (ARNK) alliance in our war against the WOKE DEI Euro Chinese Soros COMMUNIST SCOURGE and you will be guaranteed a VIRGIN wife! ENLIST TODAY!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago

Shorten it to just ARK and it will be even more on the nose with a biblical reference!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

Heinlein couldn’t have written it better.

[–] Birch 73 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I can't help but think of how this cartoon from the beginning of November got it completely backward

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Eh not really getting the idea across:

[–] [email protected] 92 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

looking for this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Damn dude. I applaud your effort for a quick laugh...well, not laugh, per se.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Ah yes, that sends the right mix of feelings.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

True, all humans are like children. Maybe AI should take over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What if wanting to believe that there is some nice place that good people go when they die, leads people to support the mass murder and immiseration of countless women, children, queer people and BIPOC?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Religion is, and probably always has been a means of control. That's not to say that it is that at every level, or that it's only that. Religion is designed to bring you comfort and assistance in your times of need, while charging you a fee for the service. The business has to run, the staff and bills have to be paid, the top officers need to be fabulously wealthy. Not all religions are against Women, Children, BIPOC, and LGBTQ, but if you're trying to exert control, they make easy scapegoats. White men make all the money, Let us hold down all these minorities so you can smother them to make yourself feel better, now pay us.

One of my friends attends and assists with a great little church. It's a small, modest community church. The pastor is gay, and drag queens come to read stories occasionally. The place is just kept up with. They're not squeezing 30% out of the community. I'm not one for church, but I approve of what they're doing wholly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Religion takes the best parts of human nature, and convinces people that these things come from some big other, who is always watching and judging us. It turns us inside out, and the world upside down. I don't get mad at god or judge people for being religious but anything that convinces good people that they are fundamentally evil is itself the opposite of goodness.

It is absolutely a method of control, its no coincidence that the emergence of basically all the major religions coincides with the rise of class domination.

"With or without religion, good people would do good and bad people would do evil. But to make good people do evil takes religion."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I also try not to judge people simply for being religious, but it's pretty damn hard when it's the direct cause of their affirmative stance on things like anti-vax, anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-science etc.

Of course there are people with those stances who aren't religious at all too, but they do seem to be in the minority.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I know a couple people who swear that religion turned their life around. I swear they're the nicest most pleasant people I know. They claim that when they were teenagers they were consistently stealing things and breaking into places and it wasn't until they found God that they stopped.

The one guy was a little more analytical than the other guy. He looked me dead in the eye and said I don't know that God is up there watching, But I do know that in the time when I needed somebody to be watching, I felt he was and I made better decisions.

Now, I think that this is an outlier case but I'm apprehensive to just completely discount religion even though I know in all cases it's control. A lot of churches do have reasonable positive outreach for the money. Of course for each one of those you've got another church out there really everybody for 30% in no matter what their situation is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I really understand that it is a nuanced issue, people are extremely intricate and surprising creatures. People have a way of taking the worst circumstances and making them wonderful. If a little God makes your life better, fucking go for it. My granddad, one of the sweetest most caring men I ever met, his final words were, "God in heaven..." And then He passed. At which point it doesn't matter if heaven is a "real" place, it is real because it is real to people who believe in it. On the other hand, many atheists are insufferable and just as ignorant and entrenched in their negative belief as the worst religious people can be. I've studied religions and was deeply Catholic until I was about 30, so like 15 years ago. I love to discuss theology. Personally I read the Tao te Ching and it helps me connect with my spirit, and I want others to have that, whether it comes from religion or music or just other people.

But the parts that are a mechanism of control are just too ingrained into it. I believe in freedom and human self-creation. If religion helps you accomplish that, go for it: praise Jesus, God is Great. But if it doesn't, then to the extent that it actively prohibits this then it is to that extent that I oppose it. Sometimes its a little, sometimes its a lot.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Religion also conditions you to out source your moral judgements. This allows someone to use their authority to convince people of immoral things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Totally agree, but why is your username the noise made by my old 28.8k modem?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 hours ago

Damn, it gets worse every week

[–] [email protected] 81 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Imagine how little self-respect you'd have to have to be a woman and vote Republican.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Well, if we stopped babying women and treated them like adults, then maybe this would seem more farfetched.

Unfortunately, most women think being treated as an adult is being "unfair" to them because they're so used to being treated like children.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What in the actual fuck are you talking about

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

I can tell you're upset because I said truths you don't like.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago

Well surely it was never going to affect them. They are one of the good ones, it's the others that need to be controlled. Why would they ever come for me if I am living a proper God fearing life?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 12 hours ago

Making sure that women have very little self-respect is one of the primary functions of American Evangelicalism.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 14 hours ago (10 children)

This isn't a leaopards eating faces thing for republican women. These women derive social, economic, and political benefits through their association with the men who hold power in our patriarchal system. By aligning with backwards gender roles or evil ideologies, they feel protected and valued within the system even as it restricts their autonomy. They know what they're doing.

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