Attention, Female Trumpettes!

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eads back and guffaw whenever he makes fun of people with disabilities, wearing masks, fighting for our country, entering our country, and basically everybody who isn’t stuffing their head into a red hat and howling at the moon. He’s tapping into something with his meanness. Like those male comedians I worked with, these women think his meanness is delightful.What, I ask, is Trump tapping into? My first thought was that these women were all bored at home. Their husbands had run out of material and their lives hadn’t changed in twenty years. At least not for the better. And suddenly, out of the tv set, a giant orange man appeared and he made them feel alive again.But it can’t only be that, I thought. Women voting for Trump can’t only be schadenfreude. Not everyone enjoys other people’s misery because they’re bored at home. What else could it be?I grew up a white woman in America. I knew that men had all the power that mattered. I was asked my whole life to forgive men for being men. I was told to be flattered when men ‘hit’ on me, which is an interesting choice of words. I was told to lighten up when strangers shouted at me from across the street. I was told what I wore was the problem. I was told this by women. Women did the dirty work, while men got on with their lives.So, when everybody was googling why black people voted for Trump, I was googling why white women voted for Trump?I wanted a simple answer like self-loathing or PTSD or they’re all very very drunk.The more I read, the more I thought about how repressed white women were. I thought about how white women talked behind each other’s backs instead of having an honest dialog. I thought about how we’re all pathologically afraid of con

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frontation. Fear of confrontation made us sneaky and suffer from severe IBS and anxiety-disorders. I thought that the reason that ‘Karen would like to speak to the manager’ is that she felt powerless to fight her own battles. She needed to find someone in power to represent her. Her husband doesn’t need to talk to the manager. He just flirts with the waitress and sends his food back.How did so many white woman become this way, I wondered? It made me think of the number of white women I’ve met who were abused by relatives, molested as children, sexually harassed at work, hit on by older men as teenage girls, and raped in college. I looked out at the white women stuffed in the red hats and wondered. I wanted them to know that they mattered. They didn’t need to talk to the manager. They could be the manager.Trump regularly demeans women. He has been accused of assault numerous times. He has paid off porn stars. He has trapped women in dressing rooms and on airplanes. And that’s just what he’s done to white women. What he’s done to women of color and Muslim women and immigrant women is beyond unforgivable, but here I am trying to understand the white woman Trump voter. It makes me think that a lot of white women have been protecting the Trumps in their lives, instead of getting therapy, for many years. Their previous abusers and the men that demeaned them were merely the gateway drug to becoming a Trump voter.The last Trump voter I would like to discuss is the racist Trump woman voter. When they saw those Trump ads about the black people moving into their neighborhoods, their inner racist brain took over and they checked his box. What I would like to say to those ladies is “Stop being racist and Trump is the most dangerous man in America.”</article></body>

Attention Female Trumpettes!

Why white women voted for Trump.

Lately, a lot of people are asking why black people voted for Trump, and I think, we should give that inquisition a rest. Trump isn’t only racist, he’s sexist. It’s just as weird that white women voted for Trump. More white women voted for Trump than black people voted for Trump.

So, women, can we talk?

For every one of those black faces we see in the Trump rally, there are 1000 blonds stuffed into red hats. So, why are we still talking about black people? Maybe it distracts us from all those white ladies?

Trump wouldn’t touch anyone of those white women with a ten-foot pole, and yet they worship him. I mean, women, Marla Maples was the only American he even married. He does not generally buy American and certainly no American woman over 107 pounds. He’s not your guy.

When I worked in comedy, the male comedians always loved my work the most when I was mean. “You’re so funny when you’re mean,” they said. “Why can’t you be mean all the time?”

Hmmm. Therapy?

I could be mean all the time, but I’ve spent a lifetime trying to shake that off of me. Mean was easy. Nice required digging into my humanity, taking a pause, letting my first reaction take a powder.

Trump is mean. He surrounds himself with mean people. And those blond women, stuffed into those red caps, throw their heads back and guffaw whenever he makes fun of people with disabilities, wearing masks, fighting for our country, entering our country, and basically everybody who isn’t stuffing their head into a red hat and howling at the moon. He’s tapping into something with his meanness. Like those male comedians I worked with, these women think his meanness is delightful.

What, I ask, is Trump tapping into? My first thought was that these women were all bored at home. Their husbands had run out of material and their lives hadn’t changed in twenty years. At least not for the better. And suddenly, out of the tv set, a giant orange man appeared and he made them feel alive again.

But it can’t only be that, I thought. Women voting for Trump can’t only be schadenfreude. Not everyone enjoys other people’s misery because they’re bored at home. What else could it be?

I grew up a white woman in America. I knew that men had all the power that mattered. I was asked my whole life to forgive men for being men. I was told to be flattered when men ‘hit’ on me, which is an interesting choice of words. I was told to lighten up when strangers shouted at me from across the street. I was told what I wore was the problem. I was told this by women. Women did the dirty work, while men got on with their lives.

So, when everybody was googling why black people voted for Trump, I was googling why white women voted for Trump?

I wanted a simple answer like self-loathing or PTSD or they’re all very very drunk.

The more I read, the more I thought about how repressed white women were. I thought about how white women talked behind each other’s backs instead of having an honest dialog. I thought about how we’re all pathologically afraid of confrontation. Fear of confrontation made us sneaky and suffer from severe IBS and anxiety-disorders. I thought that the reason that ‘Karen would like to speak to the manager’ is that she felt powerless to fight her own battles. She needed to find someone in power to represent her. Her husband doesn’t need to talk to the manager. He just flirts with the waitress and sends his food back.

How did so many white woman become this way, I wondered? It made me think of the number of white women I’ve met who were abused by relatives, molested as children, sexually harassed at work, hit on by older men as teenage girls, and raped in college. I looked out at the white women stuffed in the red hats and wondered. I wanted them to know that they mattered. They didn’t need to talk to the manager. They could be the manager.

Trump regularly demeans women. He has been accused of assault numerous times. He has paid off porn stars. He has trapped women in dressing rooms and on airplanes. And that’s just what he’s done to white women. What he’s done to women of color and Muslim women and immigrant women is beyond unforgivable, but here I am trying to understand the white woman Trump voter. It makes me think that a lot of white women have been protecting the Trumps in their lives, instead of getting therapy, for many years. Their previous abusers and the men that demeaned them were merely the gateway drug to becoming a Trump voter.

The last Trump voter I would like to discuss is the racist Trump woman voter. When they saw those Trump ads about the black people moving into their neighborhoods, their inner racist brain took over and they checked his box. What I would like to say to those ladies is “Stop being racist and Trump is the most dangerous man in America.”