"Young dudes" are the prototype low-propensity voter, and despite all the hullabaloo about tRump running away with their "vote", that's largely a mirage.
You know what ISN'T a mirage? The huge women's vote this year, COMMITTED votes at that...just look at the gender breakdown obtained from the early-voting stats. "Young dudes" are outnumbered by a sizable female voting cohort, admittedly not all Harris voters for sure, but enough to truly make a difference as to who wins the presidency.
Hey, why haven't "the Groups" whose mission is focused on reproductive freedom, and grassroots people motivated by that issue made more news or public spectacle of themselves?
I have heard multiple references to a few nightmare news stories, but nothing is approaching virality. And nothing is getting out onto streets or becoming disruptive and impossible to ignore like anti-police shooting protests of 2020, which, however uncomfortable they made people and mobilized MAGA vote, made Trump look bad too and mobilized anti-Trump vote.
Somebody replied to me saying this elsewhere: "I would have liked to see some Resist wine moms demonstrating. OTOH, if it had looked anything like the FP demonstrations, I think that would be net negative, so I'm good erring on the side of no protest."
To which I replied: "FP - Free Palestine?
It would look different, different issues, different relatability, different tactics, no military or terrorist nexus, no cultural 'otherness'"
To which they replied: " Yes, Free Palestine.
It's more that the people who like to organize protests are not always that politically savvy. I think no protests are better than bad protests."
"The old ways of protest we have seen have gone stale.
We need new techniques. I have felt, since the Dobbs decision, that if we had reproductive rights movement committed to the fight, with any dynamism or flair for innovation, we would have started seeing mass actions and edgy disruptive stuff to show the pro lifers that THIS…IS…FAR…FROM….OVER…everybody with an interest in heteronormative sex and romance and profiting from it gets hurt…
1. A mass solidarity movement by women, especially of reproductive age, to stop wearing any feminine or form-fitting or shaping clothes until their jurisdictions guarantee bodily autonomy. At least outside of work hours. And if form fit or shaping clothes are considered a professional standard for employment, well then at least doing so out of work hours (although it is a legit labor issue if suitability for male gaze or beauty standard appropriated therefrom is a condition of employment)
2. Boycott & cancellation of beauty pageants
3. Boycotts of normal heterosexual mixing social venues
4. Exposures, whenever possible, of payoffs for conservatives, Republicans or Federalist Society members for abortions
5. Doxxing/exposures of abortion tattletales/tipsters/bounty-collectors
6. Mass cyberattacks and DDOS strikes on straight porn sites"
In the war on women in 2024, I say: Lysistrata strategy for the win baby!
"Young dudes" are the prototype low-propensity voter, and despite all the hullabaloo about tRump running away with their "vote", that's largely a mirage.
You know what ISN'T a mirage? The huge women's vote this year, COMMITTED votes at that...just look at the gender breakdown obtained from the early-voting stats. "Young dudes" are outnumbered by a sizable female voting cohort, admittedly not all Harris voters for sure, but enough to truly make a difference as to who wins the presidency.
Through humor, this piece sums up the young white male voter in a nutshell. Good read.
The Bitcoin line was funny, but after that . . . .
Hey, why haven't "the Groups" whose mission is focused on reproductive freedom, and grassroots people motivated by that issue made more news or public spectacle of themselves?
I have heard multiple references to a few nightmare news stories, but nothing is approaching virality. And nothing is getting out onto streets or becoming disruptive and impossible to ignore like anti-police shooting protests of 2020, which, however uncomfortable they made people and mobilized MAGA vote, made Trump look bad too and mobilized anti-Trump vote.
Somebody replied to me saying this elsewhere: "I would have liked to see some Resist wine moms demonstrating. OTOH, if it had looked anything like the FP demonstrations, I think that would be net negative, so I'm good erring on the side of no protest."
To which I replied: "FP - Free Palestine?
It would look different, different issues, different relatability, different tactics, no military or terrorist nexus, no cultural 'otherness'"
To which they replied: " Yes, Free Palestine.
It's more that the people who like to organize protests are not always that politically savvy. I think no protests are better than bad protests."
To which *I* replied:
"The old ways of protest we have seen have gone stale.
We need new techniques. I have felt, since the Dobbs decision, that if we had reproductive rights movement committed to the fight, with any dynamism or flair for innovation, we would have started seeing mass actions and edgy disruptive stuff to show the pro lifers that THIS…IS…FAR…FROM….OVER…everybody with an interest in heteronormative sex and romance and profiting from it gets hurt…
1. A mass solidarity movement by women, especially of reproductive age, to stop wearing any feminine or form-fitting or shaping clothes until their jurisdictions guarantee bodily autonomy. At least outside of work hours. And if form fit or shaping clothes are considered a professional standard for employment, well then at least doing so out of work hours (although it is a legit labor issue if suitability for male gaze or beauty standard appropriated therefrom is a condition of employment)
2. Boycott & cancellation of beauty pageants
3. Boycotts of normal heterosexual mixing social venues
4. Exposures, whenever possible, of payoffs for conservatives, Republicans or Federalist Society members for abortions
5. Doxxing/exposures of abortion tattletales/tipsters/bounty-collectors
6. Mass cyberattacks and DDOS strikes on straight porn sites"
In the war on women in 2024, I say: Lysistrata strategy for the win baby!
Hilarious 👨🏻🍳💋
Girl, you know how to get my attention! This isn't the first time, either.
I hear you. Loud and clear. Kamala! That's pronounced, "Madam President!"