This might be the best Twitter moment of moments of Twitter moments.
MollyPeonies
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MollyPeonies
@mollypeonies
question-asker; systems-change strategist; recovering journalist; STL-born; neurodivergent; AntifaList 🫡;She/They
Minneapolis, MN
Joined April 2008
- Last night I couldn’t sleep (what’s new), so naturally I spent 3 hours going down the Twitter rabbit hole of white women in the suburbs who love Harris but are married to a male Trump supporter. It’s this whole other world of women of all ages sharing their plans and fears. 🧵
- Replying to @mollypeoniesThey were talking about keeping it a secret from their husbands; maybe going out of town on election day so their husbands can’t vote (they’ve already voted); not reminding them of Election Day (bc of course it’s *their job* to manage his daily life for him).
- Replying to @mollypeoniesI can’t stop thinking about this, and how many women there are out there not only experiencing fear of retribution from their husbands bc they voted for Harris, but *experiencing relationships where their power and autonomy are erased every day.*
- Replying to @mollypeoniesThey all had some kind of plan either for keeping their vote from their husbands or “not reminding them to vote.” Their husbands are disengaged in the election and the electoral process, but they’re still 100 percent supporting Trump. Bc it doesn’t impact them.
- Replying to @mollypeoniesWe are in 2024 and women are afraid to tell their husbands they are not voting for a man who wants to take away their bodily autonomy, and deny freedoms and human rights to others. He’s promising to lock up women who disobey him, or help others travel across state lines.
- Hi, Paul! Since you're a policymaker who is too busy during the Senate break to read or look at any data or analysis to inform your decisions or thinking as a policymaker—let me help out a very busy man like you! First, let's look at the economic impact:I think you know school lunches were already free for those who could not afford them. Walz gave “free” breakfast and lunch to every student. Paid for by increased taxes.
- Replying to @mollypeoniesSome of the women said they were afraid of what might happen if “he found out” they voted for Harris. Men chimed in that it was their “godly duty” as wives to do as their husband says. One dude said he was taking screen shots & telling their husbands.
- Replying to @mollypeoniesThese were women of all I ages and in all parts of the country. Some young women were like, “we just got married, and I don’t feel like we are strong enough to go through this.” One said she told her husband, and now he isn’t speaking to her.
- Replying to @mollypeoniesSure, there are awful suburban white women who are full-on Trump supporters. But I think we also need to take a good hard look at the ways white suburban women, in particular, Christians, are prisoners in their own homes.
- Replying to @mollypeoniesI know there are lots of heartbreaking things about this election. But I see them first-hand. I see the direct impact Trump supporters have in my community. But this was the first time I’ve seen the impact from women who experience it in their own homes. From their own husbands.
- Replying to @mollypeoniesI think we need to do a deep reset after this election and change course. Not to “win” elections. But to protect women, femmes, and all people (including cis het men) from the dangers of patriarchy and misogyny.
- Replying to @mollypeoniesThe way their husband, church, friends, community upholds patriarchal control, and the ways the internalize it in themselves. Just as “whiteness” and colonialism have become imbedded in all cultures, misogyny is also internalized in women.
