A female GOP operative on the negative effects of Trump misogyny.

From a POLITICO article about some Republicans getting Ready For Hillary:

"If we nominate Trump, [the party] is lost beyond this cycle. I think we lose women for a generation, in big numbers,” said Katie Packer, who served as Romney’s deputy campaign manager and now leads the Our Principles super PAC that spent $10 million in an effort to stop Trump. 

“There’s a feeling among Republican women that I talk to that the people who would nominate this guy don’t have any real respect for us as women—especially professional women. They would rather see us in a Mad Men era, where women knew their place and catered to their husband, cooked dinner and met their sexual obligations and didn’t have any other role in society. And there are other people who are supporting him because the guy’s a blatant racist and they identify with that.

“So there’s a sense that if this is who my party is, I don’t really identify with it anymore.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/republicans-clinton-trump-indiana-222778#ixzz47fJbZ15e 

A few words about Eliot Rodger.

Whether one thinks Isla Vista mass-murderer Eliot Rodger was mentally ill, simply a raging misogynist, or as someone whose mind-and-soul sickness manifested itself in hatred of women, it's important that men (younger and older) be led off the cognitive distortion paths of all-or-nothing thinking and dominant-male/submissive -female view of relationships between the genders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)
http://www.clinical-depression.co.uk/dlp/understanding-depression/all-or-nothing-or-black-and-white-thinking-and-depression/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogyny

New poem: IT'S 2012, ISN'T IT?

my wife and I
are in a mountain tourist town
where a souvenir store
displays a cartoon T-shirt
with a stick-figure man
listening to a stick-figure woman
yelling at him in the first panel
the second panel
has stick-figure man
pushing stick-figure woman
off of a cliffside
with the caption PROBLEM SOLVED
underneath
we don't buy anything
from that store