The more serious argument comes from their insistence that cross-political marriages will help save the nation from “the Trump-era divisions” and social ills stemming from men’s misogyny. […] Worse, it shifts responsibility for male misbehavior onto women. The blame for MAGA is subtly moved away from those who are perpetuating the problem, meaning Trump’s predominantly male voters, onto the shoulders of Democratic women who have been doing everything right all along. It’s reminiscent of the way women’s hemlines are blamed for male violence or the way mothers are blamed for what their grown sons choose to do. It feels easier to blame women than to hold men accountable.
I’m so fucking tired of people (consciously or unconsciously) expecting women to make the effort, make the sacrifice, to “fix things”.
Trying to get men who already think women are inferior to listen to their liberal wives is a joke.
Which is why even just making the effort feels fruitless. There are incredibly few people in my life who would’ve been worth the massive amount of effort and pain and sheer dedication this kind of conversion requires.
There are incredibly few people in my life who would’ve been worth the massive amount of effort and pain and sheer dedication this kind of conversion requires.
PREACH! I had to cut my sister out of my life because of her stupid MAGA husband. I can’t even begin to imagine how much work it would take to pull someone back from far right to just centrist let alone any more left than that.
I’m so fucking tired of people (consciously or unconsciously) expecting women to make the effort, make the sacrifice, to “fix things”.
And what would that even look like? Dragging a bunch of men who have voluntarily rolled back their entire worldview to 1940 (or worse) kicking and screaming into some semblance of modern rational thought? How does one do that, and why is it the job of women to do it?
I’m so fucking tired of people (consciously or unconsciously) expecting women to make the effort, make the sacrifice, to “fix things”.
Which is why even just making the effort feels fruitless. There are incredibly few people in my life who would’ve been worth the massive amount of effort and pain and sheer dedication this kind of conversion requires.
PREACH! I had to cut my sister out of my life because of her stupid MAGA husband. I can’t even begin to imagine how much work it would take to pull someone back from far right to just centrist let alone any more left than that.
And what would that even look like? Dragging a bunch of men who have voluntarily rolled back their entire worldview to 1940 (or worse) kicking and screaming into some semblance of modern rational thought? How does one do that, and why is it the job of women to do it?