45% of women voted for Trump. Yet, folks here are blaming men for Kamala's loss?

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Seriously, where is the accountability? Exit polls show that Trump grabbed 55% of the male vote and 45% of the female vote. Meanwhile, Kamala received 53% of the female vote and 42% of the male vote. Had Kamala equaled Trump's share of her own gender's vote, she would have won. I don't know why Kamala couldn't crack 55% of the female vote. Her entire campaign was built around protecting womens' rights. If ever there was a candidate for President who should have appealed to the female voter, it should have been Kamala. But, this didn't happen. It would seem to me that this should be the real starting point for what went wrong - not just in this election, but in society at large.

As a man, I have often witnessed a handful of men who don't know each other enter a room and bond rather quickly over the most trivial of things - beer, sports, a TV show, video games, etc. And, that's not just true of American culture. In Germany, they have something called a Männergarten. It is quite literally a temporary activity space for men to hang out while their wives or girlfriends go shopping. The woman buys a ticket (good for two beers) for the man and drops him off at the Männergarten and she's good to go. The concept doesn't work unless men who don't even know each other, once left amongst themselves, are willing to get along.

In contrast, among all the women I know, none describe a similar ease of bonding with the women they have come across. Instead, they describe never ending competition over every little personal detail and a tendency to tear each other down. Maybe this willingness on the part of the American female electorate not to have as a default position a willingness to support another person of their own gender had something to do with what happened to Kamala. I don't know. But, it would seem to me that the answer to this question is the most important one to answer if the U.S. is ever to elect a female President.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0lp48ldgyeo