For Women To "Rise," Must Men "Decline?"

Or is that discussion a bit too, say, "binary?"

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Saturday I was lolling around in a Target in Texas, and while my wife was looking at lampshades, I read this Umair article about how the GOP pissed off women. Good, logical point — the GOP gutted abortion rights in some areas, and we have this:

Tom Bonier, a Democratic strategist and the chief executive of TargetSmart, a data and polling firm, said that even as far back as September, women had been registering to vote in significantly higher numbers than usual in states where abortion was on the ballot. ‘Democrats seem to have outperformed by the widest margins in the states where we were seeing the biggest gender gaps in registration since [Roe vs Wade was overturned],’ he said.

Women…preferred Fetterman over Oz by 53 per cent to 45 per cent, according to the AP’s survey of registered voters, while college-educated women voted for Fetterman over Oz by 60 per cent to 39 per cent.

According to AP VoteCast data, women voted 56 per cent to 43 per cent for Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer over her Republican competitor Tudor Dixon, another female candidate, while men broke 52 per cent to 47 per cent.

Tudor Dixon was also chasing the narrative that 14 year-old rape victims should consider themselves blessed, so I’m fairly glad she lost, ya know? Anyway: in the grand scheme of navel-gazing that we all do (by “we all” I mean “the 28% of people who care about politics even remotely”) after these elections, the big narrative will be Trump’s demise, or the beginning of it. The women narrative is certainly a big part of it.

Although gender and the workplace is still a very myopic and confusing topic, women do have a lot of political clout — and that cuts both ways. There are definitely a few Subdivision Sarahs out there who post about BLM and equity, and then vote for Trump with their husband, because “Well, taxes” and/or “I don’t like what’s happening in the schools.” (Often said as their kids are in private.) Those women can be “got” by the right. Then there’s what we saw last Tuesday, where women show up for the left because they’re concerned about the future of young women. It can cut both ways.