"But Trump, who has boasted of sexual assault and been found liable for it, did not stop there. He went on to say that he had told his advisors, 'I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I am going to protect them.'"

#Trump #women #gender #abortion
/2

"Across battlegrounds, there is a 10-point gender gap in early voting so far: Women account for roughly 55 percent of the early vote, while men are around 45 percent, according to a Politico analysis of early vote data in several key states."

~ Megan Messerly and Jessica Piper

#Trump #women #gender #abortion
/3

politico.com/news/2024/10/29/g…

"Why are so many women hiding their voting plans from their husbands? A lot of households are not democracies; they’re dictatorships. This may mean voter intimidation and suppression."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #women #gender #abortion
/4

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Why are so many women hiding their voting plans from their husbands?

^{Rebecca Solnit (The Guardian)}

"Charlie [Kirk] is deeply concerned—he said yesterday in an interview with Megyn Kelly—that women may 'undermine their husbands' by letting them think they’re with them, side-by-side, seated comfortably on the Trump train."

William Kristol

#Trump #women #gender #abortion
/5

thebulwark.com/p/polio-in-ever…

Polio in Every Pot; Smallpox in Every Garage

Team Trump isn’t quietly enabling RFK Jr.’s vaccine lunacy. They’re enthusiastically embracing it.

^{William Kristol (The Bulwark)}

"But then, in the dark and dangerous secrecy of the voting booth, some of these women might go ahead and vote for Kamala Harris, even though the husband 'works his tail off to make sure that she can have a nice life.'”

#Trump #women #gender #abortion
/6

Kristin Du Mez looks at the reluctance of men in evangelical churches to speak out against sexual abuse of vulnerable people by pastors. It's almost always women who speak out about this, she notes. And she then looks at the choice of those same men to vote for a known, convicted sexual predator as president.

She writes,

"I get it. It puts church-going men in an awkward position."

#Trump #women #gender #evangelicals #SexualAbuse
/7

kristindumez.substack.com/p/gu…

Guy to Guy

No more excuses

^{Kristin Du Mez (Du Mez CONNECTIONS)}

"More than 60% of evangelical pastors (the vast majority of whom are men) plan to vote for a sexual predator on November 5. Roughly 80% of their congregants tell pollsters they plan to do the same. Religious people, and specifically church-attending men, are casting their ballots so that the Secretary of Education will report to someone who shouldn’t be allowed within 500 feet of a school."

#Trump #women #gender #evangelicals #SexualAbuse
/8

As Sean Craig reports, MAGA bros are freaking out because so many women are voting.

"Two of former president Donald Trump’s most prominent backers in the right wing influencer sphere [Mike Cernovich and Charlie Kirk] fretted Wednesday after early votingnumbers showed massive early turnout among women that could imperil their candidate’s path to victory."

#Trump #women #gender #abortion
/9

thedailybeast.com/maga-bros-ar…

MAGA Bros Are Freaking Out Because So Many Women Are Voting

“Unless this changes, Kamala Harris takes PA and it’s over,” tweeted right wing gadfly Mike Cernovich.

^{Sean Craig (The Daily Beast)}

"Jesse Watters said that he would consider his wife voting for Kamala Harris the same as if she was having an extramarital affair.

The Fox News co-host told panelists on The Five that if he discovered second wife, Emma DiGiovine, was secretly backing the vice president, it would be 'D-Day' for their marriage."

~ David Gardner

#Trump #women #gender #abortion
/10

yahoo.com/entertainment/jesse-…

"This week we have seen two deeply alarming incidents of violence, threats and abuse directed by Donald Trump’s male supporters against women at polling locations. And tragically this will likely not be the last given a core theme of Trump’s “bro vote” strategy has been amplifying sexism and misogyny—as we saw again at his rallies this week."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #women #gender #abortion #violence
/11

deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/…

More violence by Trump's male supporters against women at voting locations

This demands more attention!

^{Dean Obeidallah (The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah)}

Obeidallah focuses on what happened recently in Neptune, Florida, where a group of teens waving Trump flags gathered at an early voting site to harrass voters, with one teen, Caleb James Williams, pulling out a machete and brandishing it at two female voters.

And in South Carolina, a man has just verbally assaulted Black women working at the polls.

#Trump #women #gender #abortion #violence
/12

"When Donald Trump gets pouty and shouty, his aides have a repertoire of ways to cheer him up, like telling him his crowds are the biggest, showing him flattering headlines from rightwing outlets, or watching videos of children being taken from their parents at the border in 2018. But to really help him feel better, there’s nothing like letting him sit in a big truck like a big boy!"

~ Doktor Zoom

Overcompensation much?

#Trump #women #gender
/13

wonkette.com/p/donald-trump-ro…

Donald Trump Rode Around In A Big Garbage Truck, Vroom-Vroom!

No subtle metaphor there.

^{Doktor Zoom (Wonkette)}

Heather Cox Richardson quotes MSNBC's Katie Phang, who watched Trump's garbage truck shtick and stated,

“Trump stumbles, drags his right leg, almost falls over, and tries at least three times to open the door…. Some transparency with Trump’s medical records would be nice.”

#Trump #health #garbage
/14

heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

October 30, 2024

On Friday, October 25, at a town hall held on his social media platform X, Elon Musk told the audience that if Trump wins, he expects to work in a Cabinet-level position to cut the federal government.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

Jill Filipovic characterizes this election as "the misogyny election," stating,

"Women are dying from abortion bans while conservatives are angry about their wives voting for Kamala."

#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/15

jill.substack.com/p/the-misogy…

The Misogyny Election

^{Jill Filipovic}

Alicia Norman responds to Trump's statement that he'll protect women whether they like it or not:

"Adjudicated rapist says what now?"

#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/16

oneangryblackchick.substack.co…

Trump says he will protect women whether we like it or not

^{Alicia Norman (Alicia’s Substack)}

"Donald Trump, mind you, has been found civilly responsible for rape. He has been accused by multiple women of rape (including his ex-wife Ivana), of sexual assault, of groping. He has bragged about grabbing women by the pussy without asking. He has bragged about being the reason Dobbs was overturned. Because he is the reason Dobbs was overturned."

~ Robyn Pennacchia

#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/17

wonkette.com/p/trump-once-agai…

Trump Once Again Excited To Do Things Whether The Woman Likes It Or Not

Sort of a consistent theme with this one, no?

^{Robyn Pennacchia (Wonkette)}

"He is the reason women in many states are being forced to have children against their will & cannot get treatment for their miscarriages. Every woman that dies or has her reproductive future decimated because of those laws is his fault. And he will make it worse because regardless of what he says now, he will absolutely use the Comstock laws to make it illegal to mail anything to do with abortion.

No one needs protection by him, but we sure as hell need protection from him."

#Trump #women /18

"In the last two days, you may have noticed a strange uptick in right-wing commentators talking about Harris’s 'attack' on the 'sanctity of marriage.' There’s been a bit of a buzz about conservative white women voting for Harris secretly — breaking with their faith communities and perhaps even their husbands to cast a vote against Donald Trump."

~ Diana Butler Bass

#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/19

dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p…

Halloween at The Cottage - Scary Witch Edition

On Jezebel, leading good wives astray, and gendercide

^{Diana Butler Bass (The Cottage)}

"FOX News has been losing their collective minds over the ad [by at Vote Common Good telling women they have a right to vote for whom they choose without their husbands instructing them] — accusing Harris of encouraging women to lie to their spouses and equating the wives who vote for Harris with those who commit adultery."

#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/20

youtube.com/watch?v=q9UYGyZBNo…

Julia Roberts Reminds Us - Your Vote, Your Choice

Julia Roberts reminds us that In the Voting Booth women still have the right to choose. 🔴 Join our Vote Common Good Email List to be part of the Common Good...

^YouTube

"It seems that the men of MAGA feel as entitled to their wives’ votes as they do their reproductive rights."

~ Malcolm Ferguson

#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/21

newrepublic.com/post/187767/ma…

MAGA Men Are Freaking Out Over Their Wives Secretly Voting for Harris

Fox News’s Jesse Watters is the latest to have a full-blown meltdown over the possibility of his wife voting for Kamala Harris.

^{The New Republic}

"So many of the feeder streams into Trumpism well up from springs of reaction to changes in the status of women. Dobbs has made it plain that anti-abortion sentiment is primarily about control of women. Its supporters are indifferent to women dying, women risking death, women enduring pregnancy after rape."

~ Timothy Burke

#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/22

timothyburke.substack.com/p/tr…

Trump Essentials (5): It's The Gender, Stupid

Trump Has Cruelty and Malice For All, But It's Women That Are His Issue

^{Timothy Burke (Eight by Seven)}

"Because what Trump has to offer men is permission to hate women. Those women.

And the terms of that hate are not 'Women are taking away our precious cultural ideas about manhood!'. It’s pretty much 'Women are taking our jobs and our social power, women are doing better at most of what we have done, women are—without any malice or plan—unveiling the many cases where men have risen to the top on nothing more than mediocrity & a pair of testicles.'"

#Trump #women #gender #abortion #misogyny
/23

Men don't need permission to hate women. That's the toxic masculinity our culture loves.

Men need a get out of jail free card when they act on that hatred. That's what Trump offers.