Pundits, talking heads, celebrities, and the media were all surprised by the appeal Donald Trump had beyond white male voters. In an election season in which he was often accused of misogyny — and was running against a female presidential candidate, no less — he scored surprisingly well with women across the board.
Madonna, in all her celebrity wisdom, has an explanation for that female support. “Women hate women. Women’s nature is not to support other women. It’s really sad,” the singer told actress Elizabeth Banks in an interview for Billboard magazine.
The pop star elaborated by saying that women who voted for Trump on Nov. 8 betrayed their own gender: “It feels like women betrayed us. The percentage of women who voted for Trump was insanely high.”
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She even suggests women were “jealous” of Hillary Clinton and had “some sort of tribal inability to accept that one of their kind could lead a nation.”
She’s not the first Clinton supporter to disparage women who voted differently than she did. In a post-election blog, actress Lena Dunham wrote: “It’s painful to know that white women, so unable to see the unity of female identity, so unable to look past their violent privilege, and so inoculated with hate for themselves, showed up to the polls for him [Donald Trump].”
Madonna also revealed — as so many other tortured celebrities have as well — that she’s been an emotional wreck since the results of the election.
“It felt like a combination of the heartbreak and betrayal you feel when someone you love more than anything leaves you, and also a death,” she said about initially accepting the results. “I feel that way every morning; I wake up and say, ‘Oh, wait, Donald Trump is still the president[-elect],’ and it wasn’t a bad dream that I had.”
If celebrities like Madonna had to walk a day in the shoes of the millions of women who voted for Trump, they’d understand the real issues.
She said when she found out the real estate mogul had won, it was like “someone died.”
Madonna said she has been “devastated, surprised, in shock.”
She added, “I haven’t really had a good night’s sleep since he has been elected.” Sounds like the “Vogue” musician should visit a college campus and jump into a safe space with a few teddy bears, a cuddly animal, and some Play-Doh.
So let’s summarize here: With her doomsday attitude, she has compared the election of a presidential candidate she didn’t prefer to a terrible romantic breakup or even a death. But she’s also taken to task any woman who didn’t vote the way she did — and worse.
To assume women who voted for Donald Trump hate other women or were victims of feelings of jealousy is misogynistic, in and of itself. It’s a despicable position for a successful, public, politically active female to have about other women — women who aren’t worth millions, women who face real day-to-day struggles in a country that’s grown colder and worse for them due to the policies of politicians like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
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Perhaps if celebrities like Madonna had to walk a day in the shoes of the millions of women who cast their ballots for Donald Trump, they’d understand the real issues that those women who disagree with them face every single day. But let’s face it: This is not likely.
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