• yesman@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I really don’t understand women who gravitate to the right wing. People like Loomer are going to have me reading Andrea Dworkin.

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      lots of reasons - early indoctrination, for one. but there are also benefits for women like this.

      women who buy in are given a lot of power - over other women, minorities, children. they’re also told that they’ll be protected from the harm they see happening to other women (that they and the men in their lives participate in creating). i recall a recovering white supremacist woman who believed the white men around her wanted to protect good white women and girls until she was at an event and witnessed a bunch of guys raping a girl. she understood the lie, then.

      so, for the same reason as the men. fear and control. and for public figures like this, money and power. women are as painfully human as men are, so over the years i’ve come to accept that the only reason more women aren’t shitheads politically in the way conservative men are is because the harm from being a shithead hits them in more direct ways, like not being able to get appropriate healthcare.

      anyway, that’s my rambling answer.

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        24 hours ago

        Your reply reminded me of something I heard/read once, maybe on Lemmy: those who agree there is corruption but get angry when the corruption is exposed are probably benefitting from the corruption. That’s probably not the exact quote, but the gist of it.