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As a woman who has always been more logical, I've felt safe with very few females. Not that I care about their sabotage, I've always been able to deal with it and moved on, but I usually hurt their feelings. I cross lines and fail on the social queues. I've long told my husband that I'm not really friends with any of the women in our social group because they're not emotionally reliable. He thought I was kidding. Then he defended JD Vance at a party last November, didn't say he was voting for JD, just pointing out that the clip that the people were quoting wasn't accurately shared in the MSM, and now, there's one couple that will not even look us in the eye. I'd told him that this was coming, but he didn't believe me. My husband reached out to the female, because he'd always gotten along with her. Note, my husband is quite charming and I think he's used to women liking him. He wanted to know why she was being so cold and why her husband, whom he'd thought was a friend, wouldn't even speak to him at the dinner party we were all attended last Friday. Her response was to accuse him of betrayal for voting for Trump because of her "daughter" (who is of course, a gay male who has transitioned). That Trump is erasing her "daughter" as a person and how dare we give that man a vote. She's no longer able to trust us, doesn't feel safe around us, and told him she never wanted to speak with us again. My husband was shocked. I simply shrugged and said, "I told you so. You can't win at this game my dear."

On the topic of Trump, I did vote for him and it was because of JD Vance. He is the logic, the vessel we need right now. The man who can point out the crazy cat ladies being in charge has hurt society, that even one apartment building taking over by a Venezuelan gang is too many, and that facing our debt, which is a HUGE crisis that most women cannot grasp (because we're told we can have everything we want and if we don't get it, then we're being victimized), is one of the most important tasks ahead of us. He's the reason I finally gave my vote for Trump. Kamala was never getting it, I've been voting 3rd party since 2012. But this time, I couldn't hide behind Jill Stein.

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Christina Ariadne's avatar

This is another great essay. Thanks for writing this. It might be a little too generous calling it “pathos in the public square” though, a lot of the time it’s hysteria (there is some of it on the right as well).

Working on the right, though, I’ve experienced the stoicism that denies physical danger, just as much as women-driven focus on “emotional safety”. In one case logic is over-applied, in the other not at all… I’m not sure how, or why, we’ve become so disjointed spiritually, as a nation

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