Tuesday, March 15, 2016

"...We Love You, Donald, Oh, Yes We Do....We Love You, Donald...Hey, Wait A Minute...."

Old joke.

Women....can't live with em'.....can't live without em'.

New joke.

Women...can't live with em'...can't get elected to high office without the support of a vast majority of em'.

Which makes the thus far success of Donald Trump all the more a mystery.






Common sense or logic or some combination of the two would have you thinking that, given his obvious rude, crude, neanderthal coated misogyny, the Donald would be more commonly known around these here lady parts as the Douche.

But, hey, chickee babies, it ain't only them country boys a-sangin' about how good yer lookin' in them thar Daisy Dukes that's contributin' to the Trump tally.

Here's a P.O.V on the W-O-M-A-N thing from Allee Manning and Jody Sieradzki at Vocativ.com.


According to entry and exit poll data, Donald Trump has continued to woo female voters, pretty much across the board. He scored higher than any other candidate with female voters at the past three primary events in New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada, earning almost half of popular female vote in the last contest.

Senator Ted Cruz won the lion’s share of the female vote in Iowa, but since, the business mogul has maintained momentum. On CNN, Trump said he’d be “good to women,” and work to protect them—and many seem to believe him.

Despite his penchant for off-the-cuff misogyny, Trump does hold more progressive policies than some of the rest of the field on issues that affect women. He is pro-life, but recently acknowledged the great women’s health work Planned Parenthood does outside abortion—even getting a shout-out from the group’s president, Cecile Richards. And his past life as a pro-choice Democrat make his current pro-life stance seem less hardline.

Some previous female employees have gone on Facebook to tout his mentorship as a businessman. Others shared anecdotal evidence and a 1989 “Savvy Women” magazine cover in which he posed alongside female employees, his lawyer, and then wife Ivana.


And of course, many might not care. Women are a massive and diverse group of voters, who make up more than half the electorate. Most have more at stake than just gender politics, and in the same way that his Latino supporters ignored his immigration comments, for some, his chauvinism is easy to brush off. For most female Trump supporters interviewed by Cosmopolitan at a recent rally, gender equality simply wasn’t seen as a major concern, reflective of a YouGov/HuffPost study that showed less than 5 percent of Republicans identified as feminists in 2013.

Others said they identify with his brand of politically-incorrect openness, despite the fact their gender occasionally puts them on the receiving end of such sentiments. “What I…love about Trump is that he ‘tells it like it is’ and is politically incorrect,” wrote one Wisconsin woman in a pro-Trump blog post entitled “Brains. Beauty. Trump.”

In an interview with Mic, Scottie Hughes, a Trump supporter and author of ROAR: The New Conservative Woman Speaks Out, attributed this stance to women’s respect for honest candidates. “They look at Trump and they see honesty. Women love honesty,” she said.



Wow.
Honesty.

Okay. Here's some honesty.

Here's three things that are, obviously, in danger of, bordering on being or, possibly, already out of style in the America of 2016.

Downton Abbey.

Anything Raven-Symone' has to say ever again.

Women who put self respect first.

And, whoa, there, little Nellie, all you estrogen enriched readers, viewers and/ or listeners out there who are already Tweeting away in disagreement with what you see as a diss, let me just offer three more words as proof of the retreat of the R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Kar.

Dash.

Ian.

And let's don't waste time thinking you can actually beat the hand I'm holding.

Because no matter what you got, I'll see you and raise you a Miley.

And then a Minaj.

And then go all in with an Ariana, a Palin and a Michele Bachman.

And if you still want to give bluffing me one last shot and insist that the women of America do, no matter what, put self respect above all other considerations, I'll just pull out a neatly folded piece of paper and throw it on the table, atop the center of the pot.

On which are written the number of women who have, thus far, and are projected to, from here on out, vote for Donald Trump for President of the United States.

Seriously, ladies.

It really is like your mamas told you.

You can do better.



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