(Full title: Harris: Trump remark on protecting women
whether they like it or not ‘offensive’)
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*shudder*
What a trip it is, reading this title...and empathically
feeling the full energetic impact of Division as it
currently exists amongst women in this country... Any
woman who's operating with any kind of sovereign,
independent sense of herself, or self-aware
consciousness, obviously will feel instant offense and
revulsion at those words... And any woman who's operating
within the current uber-conservative Fundamentalist
Christian GOP mindset will feel...yes, they will feel
warm fuzzies, feel *even more protected* by DJT saying,
"I will be your protector," and when he adds "...whether
they like it or not," rather than feeling taken aback and
protective of themselves, they feel even greater
safety....as astonishing as that may be for many of us,
and I mention it because I know many people would never
imagine this to be possible... I can tell you for a fact
that this is so...though I wish I'd never witnessed this
phenomenon before... ;(
But again, fortunately...(you know the rest...lol)...
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Vice President Harris slammed former President Trump for
saying at a rally on Wednesday that he would be women’s
“protector,” a phrase he used two months ago and again
this week at a rally in Wisconsin.
She addressed specifically Trump’s claim that his
advisers had counseled him against describing himself a
“protector” for women and he said “I’m going to do it
whether the women like it or not. I’m going to protect
them.”
“It actually is, I think, very offensive to women in
terms of not understanding their agency, their authority,
their right and their ability to make decisions about
their own lives, including their own bodies,” Harris told
reporters Thursday. “And this is just the latest on a
series of reveals by the former president on how he
thinks about women and their agency.”
She added, “whether he has said, as he has, that women
should be punished for their choices, whether he has
talked about his pride is taking away a fundamental right
of women, whether it be how he has actually created a
situation in America where one in three women lives in a
Trump abortion ban state.”
The Democratic nominee also responded on social media to
the clip of Trump at his rally. He made the remark this
week in the context of protecting women from migrants
committing crimes after entering the country illegally.
“My people told me about four weeks ago, I would say,
‘No, I want to protect the people. I want to protect the
women of our country. I want to protect the women,’”
Trump said at a Green Bay, Wis., rally.
“They said, ‘Sir, I just think it’s inappropriate for you
to say.’ I pay these guys a lot of money. Can you believe
it?” Trump continued. “I said, ‘Well, I’m going to do it
whether the women like it or not. I’m going to protect
them. I’m going to protect them from migrants coming in.
I’m going to protect them from foreign countries that
want to hit us with missiles and lots of other things.’”
The exchange comes less than a week before Election Day,
as the former president struggles to close the gender gap
between him and the vice president.
Harris aides quickly seized on the comment from the rally
and argued Trump’s comments showed Trump does not care
about female voters.
“Defining line of this campaign? Trump: ‘I’m gonna do it
whether the women like it or not,’” Harris campaign
spokesperson James Singer posted on X.
“Saying the quiet part out loud there,” Lauren Hitt,
another Harris campaign aide, posted on X.
Trump at a late September rally sought to directly
address the women in the crowd, telling them, “I am your
protector. I want to be your protector. As president, I
have to be your protector. I hope you don’t make too much
of it. I hope the fake news doesn’t go, ‘Oh, he wants to
be their protector.’ Well, I am. As president, I have to
be your protector.”
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Yes ma'am...
And while I know it's upsetting...and I'll make especial
note that this is not the behavior of many men who
identify as Fundamentalist Christians, certainly not
those coming from true Christ-ian orientation...another
thing I've observed that some may not be aware of, is
that there are many incredibly abusive, controlling and
manipulative men who rationalize and justify their evil
behavior toward women *as being given the right to do so*
by God... Yes, you read that correctly...
There are men who read the way the bible has configured
the whole "implied hierarchy" of men being "superior to
women" within it, due to the Adam and Eve creation story,
as God having provided them with literal justification
for *whatever they imagine they have to do, to keep any
female "under their roof"/"within their care," IN
LINE*... For these men, this is just literally what God
intended for life on Earth -- for women to be subservient
to men, in everything (no matter how sick a fuck he might
be), and for men to *have the last word,* be the ruler of
their household...
It would be quite the tossup, which is more sick -- a man
feeling justified by God to do violence against his
wife/mother/daughter, or a wife/mother/daughter feeling
obliged to submit to such perversion...
Again: I take no issue with however anyone feels inclined
to live their own spiritual truth! None! It's only when
*there's an attempt of one religion trying to force its
way into being the only allowed/approved religion* within
a Facist-type regime enforced as *national law*...
...and then, we have a problem. One that will not be
allowed to come into being...
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