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    Trump's Toxic Masculinity

    *Posters note: I love Erin Gloria Ryan .. really funny - Sometime check out her podcast "Girl Friday" https://soundcloud.com/girlfridaypodcastor or Twitter feed @morninggloria

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    The President’s budget, like everything he talks about, plays into his conception of over-the-top manliness. Cuts to education, the environment, are cuts to feminized concerns, really. After school programs and meals-on-wheels, those are caretaking programs. Education (and really, all childcare), also the purview of women. The arts, not for men like Trump (especially when the “safe and special” place of the theater is violated by opinions).

    Trumpcare (a name the White House doesn’t like) also reflects Trump’s concerns. CBO estimates that it would harm lower-income Americans between 55 and 64, people he likely doesn’t think about unless they’re voting for him. It would hurt poor women, who are of no use to him. It would hurt those women’s children. Again, of no use to Trump. Men like Trump are for the military, for walls, big, big buildings, big, loud airplanes. Fighting, sabre-rattling. Yelling nonsensical but brave-sounding garbage like “SEE YOU IN COURT!” after losing in court. Putting one’s name on things.

    Presidential budgets are more a wish list than a mandate, but a person can learn a lot about a president’s priorities from their proposed budget. Nothing on Trump’s agenda should be a surprise. He does not care about women, or the environment, or childcare, or anybody or anything that does not make Donald Trump feel more manly, and so Donald Trump’s ideas for America will not reflect a concern that is not there. If he doesn’t think about it, it doesn’t exist.

    Donald Trump’s personal brand has always been a cartoonish version of what he fancies as “masculine,” a metastatic cousin of what he fancies as “success.” It is all pride, fear, and spite. At best, it tolerates the feminine, at worst, it actively despises it.

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    http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...last-budg.html


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    "Toxic masculinity" or masculinity of any form is something you will never have to worry about being accused of having.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cletus View Post
    "Toxic masculinity" or masculinity of any form is something you will never have to worry about being accused of having.
    One can be masculine without being an $#@! ;-)

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    She's super cute. I'd squirtle on her jigglypuff.

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    world class commentary abounds

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    Quote Originally Posted by del View Post
    world class commentary abounds
    Y'think?

    She's super cute. I'd squirtle on her jigglypuff.

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    So bitter...

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    so asinine

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    Liberals are unaccustomed to having an American and a man in the White House. I like it.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


    I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.

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    trump has all the masculinity of rupaul.

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