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Henrik's avatar

I do think Mark has a point that the emergence of the manosphere in the last 2-3 years has made such proclamations louder than they might have been in a previous cycle

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Henrik's avatar

Like you’ve got people outright saying women shouldn’t be allowed to vote now 105 years after the 19th amendment, that was sure as shit not a thing in 2016

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Ethan (KingofSpades)'s avatar

The same kind of unsubtle people as the ones who made a fancam of DeSantis with the Nazi Black Sun symbol superimposed over his face and didn't understand why that was a horrible thing.

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Henrik's avatar

You know I’d forgotten about that

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Avedee Eikew's avatar

I remember all kinds of sexism in 2016 but I think they played up the baggage from the Clinton years more loudly and effectively.

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michaelflutist's avatar

Having mostly gotten away with a huge amount of shit, they're going much further now.

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Jonathan's avatar

Agreed but with zero subtlety(my gut here tells me that is not helpful to them; I still feel on a basic level that the average American is 'decent')

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