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Misogyny is definitely all over the Trump ticket. And Project 2025 is just that, magnified well beyond the trump ticket.
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A significant piece of the far right, not just here but other countries as well, is a male reaction to the loss of the traditional female role. By traditional I don’t mean teacher, nurse, and/or wife & mother over pilot, welder, or divorced lawyer but a traditional female role defined by reducing oneself as an individual to pass her energy and time over to elevating a man to his chosen role, whatever that happens to be. The ultimate support person, but not as an equal partner in a normal relationship, but as his life crutch so he can more comfortably achieve whatever he sets out to do while she sacrifices her own ambitions, to him. Sex on his terms, his word is the final word, and children are a foregone conclusion because he wants his legacy. There’s a reason tradition has a woman giving up her name.
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Dig into Project 2025, all 996 pages of it. It yearns to have the traditional female role back.
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Even the proud boys, and someone correct my understanding if I have this wrong, didn’t they originate not so much from racism, but misogyny? Conservative white and Hispanic males reacting to a loss of the traditional female role?
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Can’t stand on their own and define themselves. Instead of looking inward and fixing the insecurities and sense of entitlement, they have to try to harass 50.5% of the population into helping them with that, against their will or otherwise.
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The trump ticket is probably genuinely confused by Kamala. Her popularity as an older woman, past child bearing years, childless, as well as being lovely, elegant, ambitious, successful, mixed race, and a married woman who kept her own name. Who smiles on her own terms, not because someone told her to. And she’s kicking their asses.
Someone ran it down to me like this.
When you make wives inferior to husbands, you make all men part of the elite. A beat cop will take abuse from a lieutenant because the beat cop will just go out and abuse some citizen.
Similarly, a lord can abuse a vassal, and the vassal will go home and kick their spouse.
It's not about hating women, it's about maintaining control. If husbands and wives are equal they are going to turn on the rulers; if the man feels like he's in the elite he'll break his back to keep the system up and running.
And the whole time these men have no realization that they're being controlled this way. You control the women so you can control the men.