Dem white hoes all 'bout voting for sexual predators...article says

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Like many, I woke up the day after the U.S. election with a sense of dread, grief, and disbelief pounding in my aching head. I felt a kind of wordless devastation, knowing that in a million ways, so many people were going to suffer badly, and that some wouldn’t survive this.

Also rattling around in my body was low-key panic. I’m a survivor of sexual violence and of everyday rape culture. Trump brags about doing to women what men have done to me, with impunity. The way he swaggers and boasts reminds me of the guys who enjoyed the look of fear they’d see on my face when they followed me home at night; he reminds me of the ones who gloated about how easily they knew they could get away with hurting me.

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And then came the anger when I saw the data on who voted for him. As many have pointed out, it was, overwhelmingly, white people who put Trump in office—and not just white men, but white women, too. (About 53% of white women, across lines of class and region, voted for Trump; 94% of black women and 68% of Latina women voted for Hillary Clinton.)

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And yet, many white women not only voted for Trump, but actively defended him. Here are some of the ways that white women Trump supporters reacted to descriptions about his sexual assaults:

“If women grabbed men like that, it wouldn’t be a big deal. But if men do that to women, they blow it out of proportion. It might be true, but it might not. . . ”

“We have become so wussified. Pretty soon, saying hello to someone is going to be considered harassment.”

“I heard that he said something about groping women, and I’m thinking, Okay, No. 1, I think that’d be great. like getting groped! I’m heterosexual. I’m a woman, and when a guy gropes me, I get groping on them!”

“He didn’t kill anyone.”

Is this how these white women likely feel when they think a man of color is sitting too close to them on the subway? Are they excited about the possible opportunity they might have to “get groping on him”? Do they think they shouldn’t be “wusses” about it as long as he doesn’t kill anyone?

No—there are a few exceptions, but for the most part, white women hand out “the groping pass” to white men exclusively. Meanwhile, Obama had to have an immaculately respectable sexual history to become the first black president of the U.S. No five children by three wives for him, and no grabbing any woman by anything, ever.

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