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Marina Hyde made a similar point in her latest column. It's absolutely mind blowing that 26+ women have accused Trump of sexual assault, but it is hardly mentioned, or at least hasn't made the slightest difference to his chances of becoming President again. It's normalised. Something like 60% of men are planning to vote for him.
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What the fuck is going on with men?
Sex stereotyping has become worse again for many people (it's never gone away but was slightly on the wane, I think, in the late 20th century). It traps them in false virtue ideas of who they should be based entirely on being male or female, quite irrespective of the richness of their personality. It's very superficial, failing to take into account that most people don't conform to the silly stereotypes (males must be strong and dominant, never show any feelings, just get on with leading, being decisive, sowing their oats, going out to be the breadwinners, eating raw red meat, etc., and women must be beautiful and small and round and faithful and caring and entirely preoccupied with cooking, cleaning, and bringing up the children, humble and submissive, weepy and emotional) at all. I obviously exaggerate for effect, but smaller or larger parts of these descriptions are thought by many people to be in keeping with the natural order and kinds of virtue that they ought to aspire to. This then leads to force and violence on the part of men, and other problems. You can also see it in the abuse directed against Kamala Harris for being a woman. As I posted somewhere not long ago, I suspect misogyny is more ingrained than racism.
There is an absolute torrent of male violence against women and girls that rarely gets discussed here. Take this story for instance.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/30/the-killing-of-natalie-shotter-what-the-death-of-a-beloved-mother-and-daughter-reveals-about
Or the case about the paedophile man in northern Ireland who cat fished hundreds of girls leading to at least one taking her own life.
What the fuck is going on with men?