bc thats what it is. no one wanted to like her, no one wanted to trust her. people who supported her kept having to add the disclaimer that they didn’t really want her in power, she was just the ~lesser of two evils~
the republican smear campaign against her worked bc people love to hate women
and it doesnt matter how good they are at what they do. doesnt matter that she’s the most competent person to run for president maybe ever. ppl would rather see a dangerous, unstable, bigoted lunatic in the white house than a woman. ppl who voted for bernie would rather switch their support to gary johnson – whose platform is much closer to trump’s than it is to bernie’s – than support the woman who beat their old white fav. trump is winning bc he’s running against a woman, and the misogynist masses would give literally anyone but her the win
this is so funny because i, personally, am exhausted by how much white women love to claim the victim narrative. wake up, girl. it’s black women who are driving the gender gap against trump… white women are voting him in by a majority (:
no person of colour gives a shit about whether or not hillary is or was likable–many of us voted for her despite disliking her because we were scared shitless of the other option.it is genuinely shocking to me that you would implicate black and latino men in this when it was white people all along.
it wasn’t about the republican smear campaign against her–it was the racism and bigotry donald trump campaigned with that appealed to white voters.
get this into your head: it wasn’t about her being a woman except peripherally. it was about race. white voters weren’t voting against clinton–they were voting for trump, for racism, for the deportation of muslims and latinxs. sear this chart into your little eyeballs and TAKE SOME FUCKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
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WHITE WOMEN STILL HAVING WEDGIES PRETENDING THIS IS ABOUT FEMINISM..?????
I think you all fail to realize that a lot of white women hate women just as much as white men do. (Especially conservative Christian white women.)
Yes, Clinton being a woman was not the entire picture here, but it was a part of it. And that chart above supports the OP’s argument as well, because Trump is against women. By voting for Trump, people show they support his view on women in general. I honestly dont even understand why that chart was added, it does nothing to counter the OP’s point. The demographics of voters does not prove or disprove the point that people may have chose to not vote for Hillary (Or, voted for Trump) because they hate women.
I saw someone post this tweet yesterday, and I feel that it sums it up pretty well…
There isn’t just one reason that Trump won.
He won because of sexism, and there are people did not want to see a woman in office, even if she was far more qualified.
He also won because of racism. And homophobia, Islamophobia, and a number of other issues that boil down to people being intolerant of diversity.
– And a side note, since some parts of @hotgaydumbledore‘s ‘counter argument’ bugged me: The OP was not trying to ‘claim a white woman victim narrative’. They said “people love to hate women”. Not ‘white women’ specifically, all women. And they didn’t say ‘men love to hate women’, either, because its not just men.
Nor were they pretending that it was not white people that voted Trump into office. We all know, even without that chart, that the majority of Trumps votes were from white people.
Literally the only point the OP word ‘white’ at all was “old white fav Trump”. You were the one who brought up race.
-Didn’t vote
-Wrote Bernie’s name in after he told you not to
-Voted for Trump as a protest
-Voted 3rd Party as a protest
-Wrote in FUCKING HARAMBE as a protest
This is what happened. You spat in the face of the man you worshipped. And you broke his heart.
This is an illustrated guide I made as part of my co-admining work at The Middle Eastern Feminist on Facebook! It will be published there shortly. The technique that is displayed here is a genuine one used in psychology – I forgot the name and couldn’t find it again so if you know about it, feel free to tell me! Some could say: “Yes but you can use that technique for instances of harassment other than Islamophobic attacks!”, and my reply is: Sure! Please do so, it also works for other “types” of harassment of a lone person in a public space!! However I’m focusing on protecting Muslims here, as they have been very specific targets lately, and as a French Middle Eastern woman, I wanted to try and do something to raise awareness on how to help when such things happen before our eyes – that way one cannot say they “didn’t know what to do”! I’d like to insist on two things: 1) Do not, in any way, interact with the attacker. You must absolutely ignore them and focus entirely on the person being attacked! 2) Please make sure to always respect the wishes of the person you’re helping: whether they want you to leave quickly afterwards, or not! If you’re in a hurry escort them to a place where someone else can take over – call one of their friends, or one of yours, of if they want to, the police. It all depends on how they feel!
For my fellow French-speakers: I will translate it in French and post it on my page as soon as I can 🙂
Please don’t hesitate to share this guide as it could push a lot of people to overcome bystander syndrome!!
Lots of love and stay safe!
Thank you!
I feel this is going to be very relevant in the coming years. Please, please, please watch out for each other.
tonight my heart goes the fuck out to those in the US who are afraid. those who will be impacted by racism, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, etc. those who had to find out that their families would happily see them injured, those who discovered themselves among people they fear. my heart goes the fuck out. i am sorry thats all i have to offer
a majority of americans do not support the views of trump. rightfully, we should never have to say President Trump. but that’s not how it works. it’s all about how the votes go, and if liberal votes are split, we will lose (source)
I WANT TO MAKE THIS CLEAR:
538 VOTES DECIDED THE 2000 ELECTION.
NOT FIVE THOUSAND. NOT FIFTY THOUSAND.
FIVE HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT VOTES.
NO VOTE IS A THROW AWAY VOTE.
PROTEST VOTES, AND HOW MANY THERE ARE, WILL DECIDE IF TRUMP WINS OR IF CLINTON WINS.
EVERY. VOTE. COUNTS.
OHMYGOD, that’s what fivethirtyeight.com’s name significance is. Wow.
if you’re in america and you’re eligible to vote…… i’m begging you to vote for hillary like literally begging
I wouldn’t vote for either of them. They’re both keeping secrets and will both turn this country to absolute shit.
anyway vote for hillary instead of throwing your vote away
This is what gets me. The fact that for 90 minutes Hillary clearly showed how prepared she is to be president. How capable, knowledgeable, and cool-headed she is. She put forth actually solutions to problems that are inclusive and hopeful.
Donald Trump stood there for 90 minutes and yelled belligerently into his microphone. Twenty minutes into the debate his sentences were incoherent and, as he is so skilled at doing, he managed to never actually answer the questions thrown his way, unless he was called out on it and given even more time to actually respond with something relevant to the topic at hand.
And yet here we are. The debate is over, Hillary has clearly won and shown the American people want an actual President should look like, and people still aren’t convinced. Hillary has been at this job for THIRTY YEARS. And yet, she still suffers from this ‘likability’ thing thanks to the GOP propaganda that has been smearing her name since the beginning of her career.
“But she’s a liar!” “She’s hiding something!” “She’s keeping secrets!”
Bullshit. Hillary Clinton is a high-ranking government official. Of fucking course she’s keeping secrets, that’s her damn job. If we knew ever last thing that ever went down in the State Department, we’d all shit ourselves. Those are just your own shitty excuses for not voting for her because she wasn’t your first option in the primaries. What, exactly, do people think will happen if Hillary becomes President? What would be the terrible awful outcome of that? I have never actually heard, specifically, what she would do that would ruin our country beyond repair. We all know what Trump would do. It’s his fucking platform, he’s not trying to hide anything there. But no one can actually lay out specifics on what makes Hillary so scary, other than the fact that she’s overly qualified for the job she’s being interviewed for.
If you really feel so strongly about it, fine. Vote third party. But please, do yourself a favor. Actually fucking look at what Hillary and Trump are proposing for this nation. Really try to understand what exactly will happen if one of them gets elected. And then truly think about whether or not you could stomach looking the next generation in the eye if your third party vote gets Donald Trump elected President of the United States.
“This election draws into relief how women are penalized for not being perfect while men are rewarded for not being terrible.”