Toxic masculinity. They are inculcated from birth with the notion that they are/must be in control, and that Things Happen because they make them happen.

Nothing in this world requires your permission or understanding to exist.

@Bob Lai

Sadly, that doesn't explain Republican women. Expand it to patriarchy? Then it starts to fit.

@Bob Lai

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Sadly, that doesn’t explain Republican women.

I don't entirely get them either. It must have something to do with them being convinced that proximity/appeasement will save them. If they haven't seen the error of that logic by now, I don't know what to tell them.

It must have something to do with them being convinced that proximity/appeasement will save them.

It's co-dependency, like the mother telling her kids 'not to bother your father, he's had a long day' when he's drunk and prone to beating them and her.

It's one of the things that drives me nuts about the Democrats: the endless Scoot-to-the-Reich. We're in the endgame, now, with the choice between a nominal democracy and an authoritarian state obsessed with women's yayas, pronouns, and immigrants.