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People on this site can and will argue until the cows come home about whether Trump won in 2016 due to racial resentment and/or socioeconomic status (which are both relevant elements for sure), but it's really frustrating to me that (male) pundits are so loathe to acknowledge the role misogyny played in the election.

In one of my developmental psych courses, we learned that young boys (early to mid grade school/primary school) rate physical aggression as more hurtful than verbal aggression, while girls rate them as equally hurtful. People tend to look down on girls for their responses in those studies-- "Silly little girls, physical aggression obviously hurts more! Don't they know 'sticks and stones'?" It doesn't help that those studies are often presented alongside the fact that girls tend to use more social and relational aggression as bullying tactics, while boys use physical and direct verbal aggression. People see all of this in a misogynistic light, believing that girls are ridiculous and catty for perceiving aggression and acting out in the ways they do... as if this is not an issue of socialization, something that those judgemental adults contribute to and do nothing to change in the first place. Even worse, grown women, including mothers and teachers, laugh along with men about this matter, not realizing that they are affected by this difference in perception for their whole lives.

Leftist men be like "I'm more perverted and I hate women more than conservative men but I somehow view myself as morally superior"

“Men do not seek to oppress women because (women) are inferior, mentally unstable, unreliable, childish and stupid - they seek to oppress women because they recognise our power. No, men have systematically and strategically spent time and money in saying that women are inferior, mentally unstable, unreliable, childish and stupid - so that they can oppress us. In order to control women, they need to convince billions of people that we were in need of control. Millennia of smear campaigns against women which have successfully positioned them as ‘less than’, were only required because women are not less than at all.”

“so you say that trans women are not women because they don’t have female biology… so you’d say that women who have had hysterectomies are not real women either, right?”