I can usually spot the stream of drool a few yards out.
i feel like really the best way to find out is to ask them
Not really, my parents voted for him twice, and will vote for him again, but they are very careful around me to act like they would not.
“Well, they’re all pretty bad” seems to me to mean “I vote against my self interests”
It’s a funny thing to watch, people that want to like T but don’t want to be associated with the absolute chucklefucks that make up the red cap contingent amonst them, so it ends up this “yeah, but shhh!” kind of state.
To be clear, the article is talking about correlations in polling, not suggesting you strike up conversations with your neighbors.
not suggesting you strike up conversations with your neighbors.
I don’t know, maybe we should be doing that more often…
While I differ from conservatives on most issues, I actually agree with them on some aspects of the gender war. Feminism does demonize men in its efforts to champion women sometimes, and it’s been a rather frustrating and depressing experience to see that most liberals seem totally blind to what I see as superficially subtle, but very clear signs in popular media and politics. As examples, I’d point to the recent Barbie film, which portrays men as buffoonish caricatures of patriarchal stereotypes a perhaps a bit dated moment in politics from a decade back, wherein Barrack Obama celebrated in a speech women making up 60% of college graduates.
I obviously won’t be voting Republican, but I really do hope the Left reigns in the misandry and finds a way to advocate for women without shitting on men.
On the flip side of things, we have nearly a century of movies treating women as largely useless, fragile creatures who don’t do anything of importance, so let’s balance that on the scales while we’re at it perhaps.
This identifies two problems, and doesn’t negate the original problem (two wrongs make a right fallacy). Let’s work to fix both problems.
Demonizing men doesn’t help women. I’m all for addressing women’s issues, including how they’re represented in popular media, but representing men poorly is a totally unnecessary part of that. Do you think the solution to the legacy of slavery is for Blacks to enslave Whites for 150 years? To balance the scales? What a bullshit notion.
Nope, you’re reaching. Should every man in every move and show be represented in an idealized way at all times? How do you even remotely judge what’s a character (which is to say an individual) being portrayed in a particular way versus all men, everywhere being “demonized” as you put it?
This is why I think it’s so shortsighted for people to aim for “swinging the pendulum the other way”. What we should aim for is the actual future we want, not the just inversion of our current problems.
Yeah you’re right, women aren’t doing their movement right, they should let men do it for them since they’ll do it right
