07-03-2024, 06:45 PM
(07-03-2024, 03:21 PM)benji wrote:Royalan, https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-politics-ot-1-smoked-filled-mar-a-lago-rooms.826662/post-125318919 wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again: when you anecdotally superimpose social gender dynamics onto American politics, everything makes sense.
Republican Daddy is strong and takes care of us. So we can't complain when he's a belligerent asshole, when he comes home hours late from work smelling like booze and with lipstick on his collar. When he ignores the kids to watch his sports...oh! that's just Daddy!
But Mommy? Democratic Mommy has to be perfect. She has to keep the house clean, and help the kids with their homework, and go to all the PTA meetings, and clean up all the boo-boos, and make sure her lipstick is put on just so. And she can't ever complain. And if she ever makes a mistake, she's a bad mommy!
Well, Democrat Mummy is the one who wants to tell us how to sit at the table when we're eating, what we can do with our spare time and pocket money, and who we can be friends with.
Republican Daddy says do whatever you want, eat whatever you want and hang out with whoever you want as long as they're not a terrorist.