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.
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