So I found the Pew poll. It was showing 47 of Trumpers were not willing to consider dating people who voted for Clinton and only 24 of the Dems were willing to date a Trumper. But wait. Did you notice what I left out? Percentage, as in % symbol. I realized as I reviewed the "poll" it was not a population percentage. These were numbers. They talked to less than 100 people each who they already knew were Dems and Republicans, Trumpers and non-Trumpers. Even better. Newsweek wrote about this like it was recent. It was last October. Like right after the YouGov poll that apparently was done in mid-October. The YouGov poll showed about 53% of Dems didn't want to date Trumpers and 47% of Trumpers didn't want to date Dems, Never Trumpers, etc. Yours truly participated in that poll which is why I remembered it. It was more in depth. Took about 30 minutes. The analysis asked about friends with other views, dating people with other views, etc. But it pointed out that women 48% are more uncomfortable than men 40% dating across party lines. It didn't say what percentage of women were in each party though.
So I looked up party demographics In 2017, women were 56% Dem or Dem leaning. Now, women are 65% Dem/Dem leaning. Men were 48% GOP/GOP leaning. Now, not to disturb you ladies, but now they estimate 42% of men still lean GOP. And if they consider themselves Euroamerican males (some Hispanic men do which is why the census asked straight up "White, not Hispanic"), that percentage of GOP leaning jumps up to 61%, compared to only 47% Euroamerican women.
There's a distinct disparity here where it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why Dems are less likely to want to date a GOP, particularly one who's a Trumper. They are more likely to be female. Males are typically less intimidated by women who have their own point of view. Except, now 65% of females view themselves as Dem or Dem leaning whether they want to say it outloud or not. So, it's not really surprising women who don't really feel comfortable standing up for themselves just prefer not dating anyone who they might feel "bullied" by.
Bullied? Honestly, yes, I get plenty of Trumper, GOP, conservative guys swiping right for me. And I've gone out on a couple dates here and there with a couple different Trumpers. First, every one of them is a miserable date. They are more likely to brag about how much money they have. I don't care, especially when I make more than the ones who brag. It's not that I'm looking for someone who makes more than me. It's that they are insulting me indirectly by assuming I make less than they do. It's almost laughable now it has happened on every date with a Trumper. I'm tits and ass and fairly attractive for my age, so I couldn't possibly be making more money than them. The one that was living off disability was actually so laughable I sat there smiling the whole time trying to pretend I didn't want to strangle him. If they go to politics, I tell them I'm a moderate. If they push, I tell them I am a fiscal conservative. Oh yes, I know, I'm dodging the question. They're just not smart enough to. "Who did you vote for?" Three out of 5 had to push it there. I voted for Johnson I reply. You would think at least I didn't vote for Clinton and they would drop the conversation like a hot potato someone just shoved up their butts. Ah but no. One of them got so irate he was screaming at me by the time he worked himself into a tizzy that I was a femi-Nazi bitch and I could've put that into my profile instead of "wasting his time".
Right now all of you are thinking this may have ended with him eating his teeth, but you don't remember seeing me in one of those jailbird magazines some of you buy religiously. But my friends that know me, know I get quiet, cold and calculating in these types of situations. I was completely aware that everyone in a 15' radius was at a stand still waiting for this to play out. When he took a breath, I simply stood turned to him and said loudly enough for the immediate peanut gallery, "Well, this has been a horrible experience." Grabbed my coat and purse, and punchlined, "if I were a femi-Nazi bitch, I'd pay the bill. Instead you are."
Honestly, I can see over half my friends in tears, regardless of their political affiliation. Which may have prompted God knows what. More screaming with "snowflake" or "pansy ass liberal" or any other slew of insults most Trumpers like to hurl like they were raised in seaside brothels by whores and sailors. I can't imagine why most women wouldn't want to endure that. I promise you that's my last time enduring it.
Now, since that nightmare, I've basically hardly bothered with dating at all. I don't swipe right for anyone claiming to be a "conservative" anymore. Just the sight of a guy in his profile with that MAGAt hat makes me cringe. I imagine at least some of the conservatives I'm swiping left on are Never Trumpers. But I don't care. I don't want to experience that ever again. The next time, the guy might be lucky to walk away with his trachea intact. I don't care what your political beliefs are. You do not have that right to scream at me or any other woman like you are a 3rd grade bully telling me I can't play with the ball. And I'll tell you right now, I don't care how strong any of the women I know are. None of them want to put up with it either.
So Newsweek and their article can kiss my ass and probably at least 65% of the women out there feel the same way. Same goes for Pew Research. If you aren't going to take full demographic data and analyze it your results are shit. Here's the facts fellas. Women are still tired of being crapped on. We almost all have been, and if we haven't been, we know someone who has been. One of our good friends has definitely put up with some man's crap. We are tired of it and you can scream MAGAt at the top of your lungs. Most of us realize what you really want is to dial back when boys were men and men were boys. Women were property, arm candy, barefoot and pregnant, and held by financial "gunpoint" in dependency. Some feel "good", "I'm a man", skewed poll isn't going to change most women don't want to go back there, if they remember how bad that really was.
What we want are partners, respect, someone who understands give as much as take. What we don't want? To be bullied into submission. So yes, most Dem/Dem leaning being a majority of females? It doesn't surprise me 71% don't want to date you in a tiny skewed poll. What surprises me thinking about it now is that a statistically sound poll showed 47% of us were willing to last October. I was one of them. Thank your MAGAt behavior for turning me into one of the 65% of Dem leaning women when I've been registered GOP all my adult life. Leaders lead by example because followers mimick. Donald Trump is a pig and you decided that meant you could be too. Survey says, that was a lie.
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