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The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Caroline Downey on Men

The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary, Society & Culture

2.4590 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Caroline Downey is a staff writer for National Review.  Her observations of the gender gap in the 2024 election are razor sharp.  She joins Michele to discuss what men are telling her about women, politics, and Kamala Harris.

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0:00.0

In the marketing to men, they're presenting this caricature of what they think men are.

0:06.8

Maybe that's hunting.

0:08.3

Maybe that's, you know, bench pressing, however many pounds, whatever it is.

0:12.7

Maybe it's sitting on a truck bed.

0:15.1

Conservatives are accused of gender reductionism all the time.

0:18.8

We're accused of pigeonholing the sexes into these neat

0:22.7

little groups of, you know, women are women and men are men. And they're doing the exact same thing

0:27.6

in their marketing. And I think the reason is because maybe their female voters actually crave

0:35.0

external masculinity, the larping of masculinity, but they want them to vote for the

0:41.0

Democrats. So they basically want them to, to present masculine, but not actually act out their

0:48.1

masculine values. It's time for the Michelle Tofoya podcast.

0:59.0

There is clearly a gender gap in this election.

1:08.0

Welcome, everyone. I'm Michelle Tofoy. That was Caroline Downey, and you're going to hear more from her. She is a staff writer for the National Review. She is a visiting fellow at the Independent Women's Forum. She is a Logos fellow at the

1:13.0

Manhattan Institute. She is a conservative woman young who has a really interesting, her thumb is on the

1:20.0

pulse of this gender gap. What is happening to young men and women when it comes to this election?

1:26.2

When it comes to the issues that are prominent

1:28.2

in this election and her background is really interesting and you're going to hear about it.

1:32.6

We're going to talk about this because it really is amazing that so many women are okay

1:39.9

with the illiberalism that's out there. Like it's one thing to be a liberal woman, right?

1:45.2

But it's another thing to embrace so much of the progressive ideology, which is out there and

1:52.0

trending Marxist.

1:54.2

So we're going to get into that fascinating conversation with her.

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