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Republican Men Say It’s a Better Time to Be a Woman Than a Man

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Republican Men Say It's a Better Time to Be a Woman Than a Man


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To be a woman in the United States is to feel unequal, despite great strides in gender equality, according to a wide-ranging poll about gender in postelection America released Tuesday. It's catcalls on the street, disrespect at work and unbalanced responsibilities at home. For girls, it's being taught, more than boys, to aspire to marriage, and for women, it's watching positions of power go to men.

Men, however, don't necessarily see it that way.

Those are some of the findings from the poll, by PerryUndem, a nonpartisan research and polling firm whose biggest clients are foundations. It surveyed 1,302 adults in December via the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago's AmeriSpeak panel.

Eighty-two percent of women said sexism was a problem in society today, and 41 percent of women said they had felt unequal because of their gender.

Men underestimated the sexism felt by the women in their lives, the survey found. And while most respondents agreed it's a better time to be a man than a woman in our society, only Republican men thought it was a better time to be a woman than a man.

As women across the nation prepare to march in protest of an election in which gender loomed large, the poll results reveal nearly unanimous support for gender equality and policies that would help women — but deep partisan divides in the perception of inequality and of who's thriving and who's losing in society.

Over all, only 37 percent of respondents thought it was a good time to be a woman in the United States. Fewer thought it was a good time to be a minority woman; 24 percent said it was a good time to be a Latina, and 11 percent a Muslim woman.
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Republican men seem to see it differently. Just over half thought it was a good time to be a woman, while only 41 percent of them thought it was a good time to be a man.

Donald J. Trump's rhetoric has appealed to people who feel this way. At his victory rally in Cincinnati last month, he said about women: ”I hate to tell you men, generally speaking, they're better than you are. Now, if I said it the other way around, I'd be in big trouble."

Dennis Halaszynski, 81, is a retired police captain in McKeesport, Pa., and a registered Democrat who voted for Mr. Trump. ”It's easier being a woman today than it is a man," he said in an interview. ”The white man is a low person on the totem pole. Everybody else is above the white man."

Women ”should be highly respected," he said, but they are no longer unequal: ”Everything in general is in favor of a woman. No matter what happens in life, it seems like the man's always at fault."

Democrats of both genders were much more likely to have felt unequal because of some aspect of their identity – 68 percent, compared with 47 percent of Republicans. Gender, race and religious views were the biggest reasons. The only reasons Republicans were more likely than Democrats to feel unequal were their religious views and military status.

There is overwhelming support for gender equality in work, life and politics: 93 percent of respondents said they believed in it. But 43 percent of male Trump voters said it had already been achieved. Only 20 percent of those polled and 12 percent of women agreed.

The disparity is partly because people define equality very differently, based on their politics and gender. A majority of respondents said the following things affected women's rights and equality: unequal responsibilities caring for children; violence against women; a focus on women's beauty and sexuality; the lack of women in political office and positions of power; sexism; racism; equal opportunities in the workplace; and access to birth control and abortion.
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I don't even know how someone could come up with that opinion. Are they that ignorant?
 
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Dennis Halaszynski, 81, is a retired police captain in McKeesport, Pa., and a registered Democrat who voted for Mr. Trump. “It’s easier being a woman today than it is a man,” he said in an interview. “The white man is a low person on the totem pole. Everybody else is above the white man.”
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I'd love to know what statistics he pulled out of his ass to come to those conclusions.
 
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Caja 117

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The white man is a low person on the totem pole. Everybody else is above the white man."
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WTF?

”Everything in general is in favor of a woman. No matter what happens in life, it seems like the man's always at fault."
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Maybe because No, really means no?

Is this an example of White Male Privilege?
 
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Poppy

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i mean this is the party with dudes who say they wish they could say they were transgender when they were younger so they could look at girls in the locker room, republican men aren't exactly a bastion of empathy and understanding
 
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ClosingADoor

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Depending on which media you consume every day, it is not hard to see how some come to this conclusion. The lack of integrity and facts on some network really does a number on the mindset of viewers.
 
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Of course they do. Straight white men are the most opressed group in their eyes because they can't empathize wit any other group.
 
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Pai Pai Master

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“The white man is a low person on the totem pole. Everybody else is above the white man.”

This is the most 81-year-old-retired-cop quote I've ever seen.
 
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The disparity is partly because people define equality very differently, based on their politics and gender. A majority of respondents said the following things affected women’s rights and equality: unequal responsibilities caring for children; violence against women; a focus on women’s beauty and sexuality; the lack of women in political office and positions of power; sexism; racism; equal opportunities in the workplace; and access to birth control and abortion.
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Well if Republican men surround themselves by Republican women who don't think many if any of those things are a problem, then yeah, I can see where they came to that conclusion.
 
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Caja 117

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Im sorry, but I had to come back and comment again and say WTF at that quote about White Male been bellow everyone else!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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More Fun To Compute

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It's sort of a rotten joke but looking at that data it seems that republican men might have a distorted view of how hard women have it because they treat women better than democrats but assume that democrats treat them even better. Republican women are feeling much less gender equality than democrat women.
 
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I can't even process that level of delusion. So, so, so damn tiring knowing there enough pea brained bigots that think like that to elect a literal fascist into office.
 
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Dennis Halaszynski, 81, is a retired police captain in McKeesport, Pa., and a registered Democrat who voted for Mr. Trump. “It’s easier being a woman today than it is a man,” he said in an interview. “The white man is a low person on the totem pole. Everybody else is above the white man.”
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Some serious persecution complex from these idiots


Reminds me if an American dad quote

-So you like paddleboats?

-Damn right. I think it's because they remind me of a better time when white males had all the power instead of just most of it.

-I hate how we only have most of the power.
 
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Jesus Christ, it all makes sense. It finally all makes sense.

It's like planet of the apes, the truly oppressed, marginalized, and abused class was the white man. We played ourselves, it was us all along. 😢
 
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Caja 117 said:
Im sorry, but I had to come back and comment again and say WTF at that quote about White Male been bellow everyone else!!!!!!!!!!!
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The guys 81 and likely senile. Maybe all of his friends are dead and his family never talks to him because of how miserable he is too. Sucks.

McKeesport is kinda shithole too.
 
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More Fun To Compute said:
It's sort of a rotten joke but looking at that data it seems that republican men might have a distorted view of how hard women have it because they treat women better than democrats but assume that democrats treat them even better. Republican women are feeling much less gender equality than democrat women.
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Republicans treat women better?

You realize Republican women are in many cases the modern equivalent of anti-suffragettes eh?
 
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I don't know whether to say this is awful and a shock to me or par for the course and exactly what I should have expected.
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I figured it out. It's extremely par for the course, but I'm shocked at how candid these people are about their blatant idiocy. I expect more talk like "This may not be PC to say, but this country is getting pussified" or some shit.

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Republicans treat women better?
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I think this was some poor wording about how this data could be misinterpreted. May be giving too much of the benefit of the doubt on this one.
 
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Afrodium

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The people who empathize with the quote in the OP think it's unfair that white men seem to be a scapegoat for everything. They see a bunch of people blaming white men for the ills of the world and don't understand why it's racist for them to talk about minorities in the same way. The conclusion they arrive on is that white men are the lowest on the totem pole, as they get blamed for everything and are silenced and condemned when they attempt to defend themselves.

Of course, this point of view requires a lack of understanding of what the people angry at white men are complaining about (getting murdered by law enforcement, for example), as well as ignoring the fact that a white man who used minorities as a scapegoat for everything was just elected President of the United States.
 
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