Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday was alarming for many reasons, not least for its overt #fascism and #racism, but it was also, as The New York Times accurately reported, a “carnival” of “#misogyny”—one directed at Kamala Harris in particular.

Grant Cardone, a self-styled business guru, likened the Democratic nominee for president to a #prostitute, saying that “her pimp handlers will destroy our country.” Another speaker called Harris “the devil” and “the #Antichrist.” And Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, mocked her racial identity and repeated Trump’s insult that Harris, a former district attorney, state attorney general, senator, and now a vice president, was “#low IQ.”

The overt #sexism throughout the night, even by the standards of Trump’s nearly decade-long political career, was astonishing.
Less surprising, given the campaign he’s run this year, was the figurative #crotch-grabbing on display. When Trump running mate JD Vance mentioned Tim Walz, his Democratic counterpart, the crowd erupted into “#tampon Tim” chants—to which Vance laughed.
(Explainer here, if you need one.) And the “comedian” who opened the rally, Tony Hinchcliffe, said that Latinos “love making babies. There’s no pulling out. They come inside, just like they do to our country.”
These were not simply off-the-cuff remarks;
they were very deliberate.
It’s all part of Trump’s electoral strategy to Make America #Masculine Again.
He knows he’s losing women by massive margins, so he’s going after the men
—especially, but not exclusively, aggrieved young men who feel they’ve been robbed of their male #birthright to #power.
Trump is giving them license to say whatever they want about women, and his campaign is an implicit promise to give them control over women, including their bodies.
This is the pop-culture definition of toxic masculinity, and the crudest, most aggressive misogyny we’ve seen from Trump
—which is truly saying something, given that he’s an adjudicated #rapist who was caught on tape bragging that he can grab women’s vaginas without consequence.
But this, perhaps even more than his reprehensible immigrant bashing and fascist overtones, is Trump’s closing argument:
to put women back in their place and restore men to total supremacy in America.

newrepublic.com/article/187419…

Trump’s Promise to Young Men: I Am Your Retribution Against Women

He and his MAGA allies are ramping up the sexism and misogyny as part of a closing message that they will restore men to their rightful place—of total control over women.

^{The New Republic}

Trump’s closing rally at #Madison #Square #Garden on the second to last Sunday before the election was a release of #rage at a political and legal system that impeached, indicted and convicted him,
a vivid and at times #racist display of the dark energy animating the #MAGA movement.

A comic kicked off the rally by dismissing Puerto Rico as a “floating island of #garbage,” then mocked
Hispanics as failing to use birth control,
Jews as cheap and
Palestinians as rock-throwers,
and called out a Black man in the audience with a reference to #watermelon.

Another speaker likened Vice President Kamala Harris to a prostitute with “pimp handlers.”
A third called her “the Antichrist.”
And the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked Ms. Harris
— the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father
— with a made-up ethnicity, saying she was vying to become “the first Samoan-Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.”

By the time the former president himself took the stage, an event billed as delivering the closing message of his campaign,
with nine days left in a tossup race, had instead become a carnival of #grievances, #misogyny and #racism.

nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/trum…

Misogyny in medicine is focusing more on what a man might WANT than what a woman NEEDS.

I NEEDED a hysterectomy and was told I wouldn’t survive pregnancy.

“Informed consent” for surgery looked like this:

“Don’t you want to be a Mom?”
“You may want BIOLOGICAL children”

“What if you meet a man who wants babies?”

“What if he leaves you because you can’t bear his children?”

“Men went their OWN babies - what if you can’t do that?”

“You will feel like less of a woman.”

Brought boyfriend in to try and change their minds. Them to him:

“Will you still love her if she’s BARREN?”

“Do you want kids?”

“What if you change your mind & want kids - will you LEAVE her?”

Him: “Save her life what I want doesn’t matter” (he understood the assignment)

The assumption through the entire process - as I got sicker and sicker - was that I should WANT to risk my life for the CHANCE to bear a child.

That if I didn’t WANT that - I would change my mind when I met the “right man”

Apparently the “man of my dreams” will be so spectacular and the love so all consuming that I will be all too happy to put my life on the line to give HIM babies.

Needless to say I found that incredibly offensive. I was dying. I was incredibly sick. I needed surgery.

This is NOT “informed consent”. This is misogynistic and patriarchal bullying.

Informed consent would have been ensuring I knew it wasn’t reversible and would mean I could never have children. Letting me know risks of complications. Risk of prolapse. Risk of early menopause

None of that was covered. It was ALL about men and babies.

I actually did have a severe post operative complication that I was woefully unprepared for because “informed consent” failed me.

We must do better. Women need autonomy over their body. Inform us. Work with us.

Don’t put the needs of a man before of our own. Don’t treat us like incubators.

We are MORE than our ability to bear children. I lost my womb at 24 and I’ve never felt like less of a woman, less of a person. I’ve never regretted it.

Medicine needs to do better

One of the worst parts was that when I ended up having a complication - I was gaslit & ignored again. Told I didn’t know my body AGAIN. I needed my boyfriend to get them to even run tests.

Now - decades later - I’m still dealing with issues from the surgery and complication.
I can never know how different things might have been had they acted faster - but I DO know I was never able to fully trust the medical profession again.

My article on this is below - and I’m working on a future one about informed consent (or lack thereof)

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#reproductiverights #reproductivehealth #prochoice #womensrights #womenshealth #misogyny #patriarchy #obgyn #hysterectomy #tuballigation #endo #endometriosis #chronicillness #mybodymychoice
#fuckthepatriarchy #ableism #discrimination

My Most Dangerous ER Experience and How My Advocate Saved My Life

A story of medical gaslighting, negligence and neglect that very nearly cost me my life - and how my accidental advocate (untrained and unprepared) saved me.

^{Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)}