Losing and at a loss

[clevermanka]

This article, a woman's letter to her Republican father, is mollifying, if not heartening. I am still sick and sore from yesterday's election results, but it helped a little bit. Thank you, redheadfae, for the link.

This Tumblr post. SO MUCH THIS.

No but look at his face when he says “carry a gun”. Look at how he widens his eyes, flares his nostrils, and curls his top lip. He is angry that he’s being told “we don’t like this, stop doing it”. Not just angry but indignant.

In his world, men are allowed to treat women however they please and to scream at them in the street. He’s not saying “carry a gun” because he thinks women should literally arm themselves (okay he probably thinks more people should literally arm themselves) but what he’s really saying is “too fucking bad”.

I mentioned in a comment to yesterday's post that one of the reasons I'm having such problems dealing with the election results is I'm too baffled to be angry. I can't process it. I'm stuck in a cycle of grief and I don't yet have the emotional language to pull myself out of it. It's difficult and confusing and frightening. I don't like it.

Comments

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

thanks for that first article. while I received a lot of emails about the agony of defeat, we did make a lot of strides. I was naming them off to my mom who complained that NPR had none of that, just the Republican victories.  .and not how many of those were minorities!

(hugs)

I'm trying to focus on the good stuff and that we got through this before.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to focus on the good stuff and that we got through this before.

I'm just overwhelmingly terrified of what this means for the Supreme Court.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

The good news is that they are not infallible. They once ruled that African Americans were not really people.

[msmitti.livejournal.com]

That tumblr. TRUTH.

This is what I run into anytime I try to articulate a problem with a man's behaviors and attitudes and I am at a complete loss as to how to deal with it. That level of willfully not recognizing any other point of view confounds me. every time.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I just stop talking to those people. It's not my job to educate them. I have enough of my own shit to deal with without dealing with theirs, too. If they're actually interested in learning, not arguing, they can do their own fucking research.

[seascribe.livejournal.com]

This is why you are my rolemodel.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

And I strive to be worthy, bb.

[pointoforigin.livejournal.com]

Ugh I can't even. I keep trying to read the news and educate myself in detail about what just happened, but I always have to quit. I'm just not ready to confront this degree of stupidity and malice.

As for the guy in the clip--Yeah, that is his "FUCK YOU BITCH" face if ever I saw one. I can't talk to these people because my blood boils and I want to PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE. Which, I know, is just descending to their level. I wonder how far the woman he's talking to would get if she used his recommended technique and told him to shut the fuck up. You know he would just escalate and start with the screaming and threats, because that is standard operating procedure.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

I'm baffled as well. I'm really baffled by the blind man and his minority disabled wife who are CELEBRATING the FUCKISTAN results! How .. how.. do you even vote Republican and cheer on the very people who CUT disability coverage, who want to repeal the very ACA that is making it possible for other people damn near in your situation to access health care? How have women voted for idiots who still vote to stop equal pay? I don't know if I want to understand a world like that.

Yes, I breathe deep and look at the liberal victories.. and take heart that at least the folks who came out to vote made other good choices, even if they couldn't separate the rhetoric from the facts.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I want to understand a world like that.


SERIOUSLY.

[write-out.livejournal.com]

I keep telling myself that we have been through this midterm bullshit before and prevailed in presidential elections. I remember 1994's stupid Contract with America fuckery the repubs pulled. That was year I managed a state house campaign and we only lost because my guy had a D after his name. I had to take three days off of work after the election because I was so devastated. The Rs won big in that midterm but completely imploded two years later.

But yeah, completely sick here. We have the WORST fucking governor. Such an asshole embarrassment and now we get his smugness for four more years. *cries* I do think there are signs of hope and yes, when people get to vote directly on the issues, they tend to be more progressive. FUCK THIS SHIT THOUGH.

And that man. HOly crap is he terrifying.

((hugs)) I am stunned by this election too.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

The Rs won big in that midterm but completely imploded two years later.



I could never, never work for a campaign. There's a reason I stay emotionally un-invested in most things (and people).

[write-out.livejournal.com]

That was the one and only time. Never. Fucking. Again. Every time I see those poor schmucks standing at an intersection holding signs, I shudder. That campaign laid me to waste and I'm still not over it. Fucking republicans.