Of course Trump nearly winning was the fault of females....

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m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/us-election-trump-biden_uk_5fa53425c5b64c88d3ff804b?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

I saw this opinion piece this morning and once again, surprise surprise, women are to blame.

According to exit polls 55% of white women voted for Trump. And while I am also aghast that anyone would vote for a misogynistic, racist narcissist, I am a bit pissed off that it’s women that get called out for voting for him and men get a pass.

Also, according to the exit polls, 12% of black people, 32% of Hispanic/Latinx people and 28% of the LGBT community voted for Trump - surely they were also turkeys voting for Christmas?

Nothing is said about the fact that 49% of men voted for Trump versus 48% for Biden, whereas more women voted for Biden than Trump (56% to 43%).

But no, it’s all the females fault....

Given that the author is of Indian origin, it is interesting that according to the NBC News exit poll 39% of Asian-American women voted for Trump. Now exit polls are unreliable to begin with and particularly unreliable for small demographic groups, but using them is what people seem to be doing so there it is.

The Huffington Post opinion piece is poorly reasoned. For instance, the women who marched in the Women's Marches are not the ones who voted for Trump. They are probably almost entirely those who voted for Biden. So it is incorrect to argue that some vast group of white women pretended to hate Trump and then voted for him. The ones who voted for him never did hate them.

I also found it interesting that the article describes even those white women who didn't vote for Trump in pejorative terms (eating brunch in yoga pants), and that those women are assigned the overall responsibility for how other white women voted.

I get that people do that all the time, right-wingers demanding that moderate Muslims somehow monitor and control Islamists or Europeans holding all Americans responsible for the 2016 election outcomes, including all those who worked and voted against Trump. But it is still an annoying thought pattern.

A few days ago a woke young man in my local progressive FB page used this very stat to order the white women (none who voted for Trump) to 'do better' .

The majority of us told him where he could take that thought.

Would the participants of the Woman's March have been largely liberal feminists, or does it generally transcend the various 'camps'?

@LordLancington

Would the participants of the Woman's March have been largely liberal feminists, or does it generally transcend the various 'camps'?

Certainly the vast majority in the US were liberal women or perhaps Independents. And of course the majority were white because white women are still the largest numerical group.