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Tracey Henley's avatar

What women want is for people to stop telling them what to do.

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Michael Shore's avatar

Former POTUS Trump is a product of his upbringing. There are millions of Americans who grew up with fathers who treated their mother with disdain or worse. The duties of a mother were to sexually satisfy, raise offspring, clean, cook and do everything the father found beneath doing, "woman's work." Trump occupies a "don't worry your pretty little head" male/female paradigm. That view of the role of women in society remains "traditional" to Trump supporters, but repressive, stifling and disrespectful to what is emerging as the gender enlightened generation.

I was raised by a Trump-like father, raised in a "traditional" home. Luckily he married a woman with a 140+ IQ who worked him to her will, often without him realizing it. When he finally realized the asset he was sleeping with, he encouraged (as much as he was capable) and watched his spouse become CFO of the family business, school board president, starter of a women in the oilfield management organization, State Board of Education Chairman and co-chairman of Bob Dole's Texas presidential campaign.

I was raised by Grace Shore, the smartest and most emotionally disciplined (with her husband) and open (with her children) woman I have ever met. Because of who raised me, Trump looks like an idiot to me regarding his relationships with and views toward women generally.

When it comes to the role of women, there are a lot of 78 year old men who see it like Trump. We give them an extra beer at Thanksgiving so they fall asleep in the recliner in the 3rd quarter of another Cowboys' loss. We do not elect them POTUS in 2024.

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