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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe party of men: Kavanaugh fight risks worsening the Trump GOP's gender problem
The Republican Partys fight to save President Trumps embattled Supreme Court nominee amid allegations of sexual assault has surfaced deep anxieties over the hypermasculine mind-set that has come to define the GOP in the nations roiling gender debate.
The images are striking: The specter of Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee all 11 of them men questioning U.S. Appeals Court Judge Brett A. Kavanaughs female accuser. A senior GOP aide working on the confirmation resigning amid his own sexual harassment allegations. A viral photo of women for Kavanaugh featuring more men than women. A South Carolina Republican congressman making a crude joke about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg being groped by Abraham Lincoln.
And then there is the partys id, Trump, who as a candidate denied more than a dozen accusations of sexual assault and harassment and sought to silence and retaliate against his accusers and who as president has defended one accused man after another.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-party-of-men-kavanaugh-fight-risks-worsening-the-trump-gops-gender-problem/2018/09/23/37d2dd88-bdb5-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html?utm_term=.327b6f0dcbec
The images are striking: The specter of Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee all 11 of them men questioning U.S. Appeals Court Judge Brett A. Kavanaughs female accuser. A senior GOP aide working on the confirmation resigning amid his own sexual harassment allegations. A viral photo of women for Kavanaugh featuring more men than women. A South Carolina Republican congressman making a crude joke about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg being groped by Abraham Lincoln.
And then there is the partys id, Trump, who as a candidate denied more than a dozen accusations of sexual assault and harassment and sought to silence and retaliate against his accusers and who as president has defended one accused man after another.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-party-of-men-kavanaugh-fight-risks-worsening-the-trump-gops-gender-problem/2018/09/23/37d2dd88-bdb5-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html?utm_term=.327b6f0dcbec
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The party of men: Kavanaugh fight risks worsening the Trump GOP's gender problem (Original Post)
Arkansas Granny
Sep 2018
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Garrett78
(10,721 posts)1. And still a disgustingly high percentage of white women will vote Republican.
Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)2. I know. It's beyond my understanding.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)3. This quote is from WaPo article on
boys' prep schools and other institutions of male-only exclusivity creating misogynists:
Megan Garber, in the Atlantic, writes compellingly of the deeper venality of the boys-being-boys defense that has been marshaled in support of the nominee: It normalizes. It erases the specific details of Christine Blasey Fords stated recollections with the soggy mop of generalized male entitlement.