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yardwork

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2. Fundamentally, that's the whole thing.
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 09:49 AM
Nov 4

The MAGAT movement is all about control. MAGAT men want control over women. MAGAT white people want control over people of color. Fundamentalists of all religions want control over everybody who isn't in their specific sect.

If you look at the demographics of MAGAT: mostly white Christians with some conservative fundamentalists from other religions, mostly male with some wives who go along with their husbands - it's very clear what they want.

They're freaked out and terrified that women have autonomy; can get educations and jobs that allow them to be self-sufficient and unmarried if they choose, and equal partners in their marriages if they choose to marry; can choose whether to have children or not; don't feel frightened by religious coercive control but can choose to join churches or not; can choose to be gay, straight, or any combination; can even choose to be male, female, or any identity. NOT dependent on men or churches. Independent and able to live their own lives.

Ditto for people of color. All those Black professional women running around spending their own money and living their lives instead of doing laundry for rich people! All those Latino immigrants getting educations and professional jobs instead of mowing lawns!

It's a complete freak out by people who are scared, deeply insecure, and basically really weird.

Seems magat males are quite threatened by women's autonomy SheltieLover Nov 4 #1
Fundamentally, that's the whole thing. yardwork Nov 4 #2
Their outrage at the mere suggestion that some magat women might have an independent thought and vote autonmously speaks SheltieLover Nov 4 #13
Exactly! yardwork Nov 4 #23
Absolutely SheltieLover Nov 4 #24
Grand Old Patriarchy, indeed. TSExile Nov 4 #3
The buy-bull says women are to be subservient to men,... magicarpet Nov 4 #4
The Old Testament Cirsium Nov 4 #20
Not just married women. ALL women. valleyrogue Nov 4 #5
I am one of those childless cat ladies they love to deride. TSExile Nov 4 #17
It is not derision jfz9580m Nov 4 #19
Marriage and divorce laws are state matters when it doesn't involve constitutional rights. valleyrogue Nov 4 #6
Grrr kimbutgar Nov 4 #7
GOP destroys rights; Democratic Party extends rights. . . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 4 #8
Democrats embrace the future; GOP fears the future and those not precisely like themselves. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Nov 4 #21
Y'all Queda rears its ugly head. (NT) Otto_Harper Nov 4 #9
Won't anybody think of the poor private detectives? malthaussen Nov 4 #10
I didn't think they'd stop at just reproductive slavery. patphil Nov 4 #11
I had a very amicable no-fault divorce jfz9580m Nov 4 #12
It's a patriarchy thing. Patriarchy is under siege, and they're shit-scared. n/t TygrBright Nov 4 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author Wiz Imp Nov 4 #15
This is the way it used to be Figarosmom Nov 4 #16
The South Korean women were/are on point. TSExile Nov 4 #18
"...Those efforts "all serve men"..." Solly Mack Nov 4 #22
K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 4 #25
If they do this in TX, OK, and add TN. Captain Zero Nov 4 #26
W/o NF divorce, you'll have scenarios like this: no_hypocrisy Nov 5 #27
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