It does not escape me that this has come up with exactly two candidates: H Clinton and Harris. I had men tell me that both were going to get us into multiple wars. And I think it has to do with “women are irrational because of hormones” but they won’t just say that
Among incels there's been a longstanding association with feminism and the draft. They base this on the support for the White Feather movement by a small number of suffragettes in the UK during WWI, while, ofc, ignoring that the large majority of feminists have been strongly anti-war.
Damn this is a genuinely 100+ years old deep cut
It’s just misogyny all the way down but dressing it up in “fear of draft” and “warmongering females” makes them sound rational instead of indulging in fanfic about how concerned they are about peace
I unfortunately remember many of them outright saying that they didn't want a "hysterical" women as US president, so there's also that.
What kills me about that sentiment is that men have no idea how much self-control all women need to exercise in the workplace because of *their* behavior. So someone like Clinton or especially Harris obviously knows how to do that
It’s a catch-22 TBF, ppl not thinking that they’d be a strong wartime leader’s a much larger constituency.
I think it's mostly projection. Republicans decided to get past their warmongering problem by inverting reality.