Election day is here at last! Vote! VOTE!! VOOOTTTTTEEEEE!!!1!!!
Well, if youβre American, anyway.
Americans and non-Americans alike, enjoy these ridiculous thoughts on the Single White Woman Vote from our old pal Heartiste.
[S]ingle womenβs prime directive is to fulfill their hypergamous impulse for the highest possible status man they can coax into long-term commitment. The party that is perceived as being pro-unrestricted female sexuality, anti-male sexuality, and anti-drone beta male is going to get their vote.
Huh. I guess we can add βhates drone beta malesβ to Obamaβs long list of imaginary crimes, alongside βis a secret Kenyan Muslim,β βwants to take my gunsβ and βwonβt give Donald Trump his school transcripts.β (Actually, that last “crime” is true.)
You would probably not be surprised to learn that not only do single white SWPL chicks just automatically ASSUME everyone in their social circle is an Obama cultist β¦ the first thing that pops in their heads when you ask them why theyβre voting for Obama is usually something along the lines of βRomney wants to take away my birth controlβ. Yeah, these are educated women saying this. Thanks suffrage!
Somehow I doubt the βsingle white SWPL chicksβ that Heartiste spoke to actually think Romney is going to come into their bedrooms and steal their birth control. No doubt they are, rather, concerned with Romney’s altogether non-imaginary plans to make abortion illegal and restrict their access to affordable reproductive health services generally. (Oh, and “SWPL” stands for “stuff white people like,” a reference to the blog of the same name, and seems to be Heartiste’s favorite term for white people who live in urban areas and who aren’t reactionary assholes like himself.)
And now, the required reference to Sex and the City:
The fact is, marriage advocacy (and earlier marriage) is bad for young womenβs sexual market value leverage β¦ Β A party that embodies the single and seeking alpha cock in the city lifestyle will appeal to them. The party which is perceived (facts donβt really matter in politics) as pushing women to settle down early with a reliable company man and start popping out future video gamers is anathema to the single, economically self-sufficient, white woman sensibility.
Here we come to the crux of Heartisteβs, er, βargument.β
Finally, and perhaps most saliently, single white women see Big Daddy State as a beta provider husband substitute. This has nothing to do with pity for the downtrodden masses and everything to do with βhow much money and services I can redirect my way with an assist from the white knight contingentβ.
Letβs throw some Evo Psych in the mix:
The single white woman who delays family formation finds herself battling her ancient subterranean limbic rhythms which always and everywhere guide her to seek out potential mates who could provide resources for her and her children, particularly when she is burdened by pregnancy and mostly unable (at least as would have been the case in the ancestral environment) to fully provide for herself. The single white woman, lacking the beta provider hubby (ironically, mostly by her own hand) seeks to fill his absence with the alternative β the looming Big Man tribal leader, which in modern America is the federal government, and its shaman is Obama.
Huh. I thought single women were supposed to have the hots for Obama because he’s such an alpha. But now heβs a beta provider?
Heartiste continues:
Women are naturally redistributionist because women are naturally self-aggrandizing and self-entitled, as befits their higher reproductive worth. And, more controversially, a very bad man like myself would say that women are naturally comfortable in quasi-harem arrangements, which is what the single woman concubine-government alpha provider relationship amounts to. And just like an alpha provider/protector, the government is very good at forcibly extracting tribute from the beta male masses.
Huh. I thought alphas werenβt interested in providing or protecting. Now theyβve become the ultimate White Knights?
In effect, Big Government is at once the alpha male tribal leader and the beta provider sucker who happily assumes the cuckold role as step-father to the single momβs cadbaggage.
Wait, what? Dude, if you have to twist your definitions of alpha and beta like taffy to apply them to this situation, it may be an indication that all this alpha/beta shit just might be complete bullshit to begin with.
Now Heartiste comes to the issue of race. You may wish to avert your eyes.
[T]he final, and most emotionally laden, variable in this equation is the black man angle. Both sides in this long-running debate have their points. My take from ground-level recon is that the people claiming single white women love alpha black men are overstating their case, and the people claiming single white women would never think of hooking up with βlower class, less accomplished, thugβ black men are overstating theirs. White women do find plenty of black men physically exciting. And smarter white women do hesitate to date black men because of a very reasonable fear that, should a warpling issue from the union (this is always in the back of womenβs minds, despite the easy availability of contraceptives), the black man will be less likely than the white man to stick around and care for her in her time of need.
And this weird racist stew relates to the election how? Because Obama is black?
As far as a I can tell, contra white nationalist hopes and dreams, single white women have ZERO concept of loyalty for their white men. Try to explain to your typical single white woman about the importance of loyalty to her men and of the idea of genetically preserving the white raceβs unique winning attributes, and you may as well be a Martian spurting goo all over her.
Or maybe, just maybe, the single white women youβre trying to βexplainβ this to are looking at you funny because youβre a creepy racist prick who thinks that he and other white dudes should have a say in how you use your vagina?
Now, in practice, one could argue that unmarried white women exercise a de facto loyalty to their men, because most white chicks date white men, and studies have shown that white women are the most resistant to dating outside their race. But how long will this hold? Census data points to a slow but inexorable increase in out-marrying and out-dating by white women (and white men). If there is some subconscious racial loyalty or primal preference acting to steer the tingles of single white women (and I believe there is), it is showing signs of withering under a coordinated cultural assault that has made even broaching the topic the equivalent of condemning oneself to the social gulag.
Heartiste returns to the issue of politics. Well, politics and the single white female vagina:
Btw, from a tingles-first perspective, a lot of white women thought Bill Clinton was way sexier than they currently think of Barack Obamaβs sex appeal. This isnβt a looks or race thingβ¦ Bill just had more sensual, oozing charm than Barry. Chicks dig charming mofos.
Heartiste offers this sad lament on the waning power of white male voters:
A lot of white men and white married couples are going to break for Romney, but the social and racial and familial demographics of the country are moving with such force in the opposite direction that the white man vote, no matter how consolidated, is going to eventually get swamped by the undertow and rendered irrelevant for many, many election cycles to come (assuming there will continue to be a country in existence that is capable of holding elections).
Yes, itβs true that as the US becomes more demographically diverse, white men will make up a smaller portion of the electorate, and thus, as a demographic group, will have less influence. Thatβs kind of how democracy works.
Heartiste ends it all with this baffling apocalyptic conclusion, bringing it all back to the issue of β¦ tariffs?
When the white man βwakes upβ to this fact, I predict secession movements will sprout up all around the country, descaling the nation to more socially and tribally congenial entities. But most of us reading this will be dead by that time. And it will be too late, regardless. In the meantime, expect populism to rise again, and tariffs to become the talk of the townhall. A billion Chinese is a lot of surplus cheap labor to churn through before wages equilibrate. There will be blood in the interim.
Heartiste, maybe you should just stay home and rest today. You sound a bit feverish.
There’s a story going around the Series of Tubes that W mistakenly voted for Obama and pressed “cast vote” when he meant to press “discard.” I give the story the side-eye. It’s too pat.
It sounds like BS to me, as there is no “discard” button on a Texas voting machine.
And Ohio is called for Obama … he’s over the top.
I dunno, the whole “ancient subterranean rhythms” crap sounds awfully Camille Paglia to me. If there was anything about men fearing that women’s giant swampy vaginas would swallow them up, I’d be convinced it was her.
Good night, everybody!
Jordan and I were both watching on Huffington Post and the updating was synced differently on our computers, so he heard that Ohio got called before I did. I was getting breaking news from the other side of the room.
Whoo hoo! It was fun hanging out with y’all.
Hey, doesn’t anyone want to stay up and watch Question 1, Question 6, and Referendum 74?
Sorry, election called, going to drink some tequila now. Also I just heard people cheering outside my window.
Harlem is VERY happy. Very loud and very happy. π
We’re going out to light some sparklers.
I am drunk and suspicious.
All the TVs told me Obama won but if I wake up and Romney is president so help me dog
Looks like gay marriage and legalizing pot are going to pass here in WA!
Stoned buttsecks for all!
I’m happy Obama won, still waiting on Batshit Bachmann to get the boot, and still waiting on the final result of our marriage and voter ID amendments. (Wish MN was considering pit, though.) In the meantime, I’m pausing my NaNoWriMo novel while indulging in some Cold Duck. π And congrats to WA and ME! π
@ Falconer: I think the news that Bush Jr. voted wrongly came from the Daily Currant, a satirical website that’s a little sneakier (or at least lesser known) than the Onion.
*pot*, not pit
(Damn wine!) π
I’m all smiles and listening to Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration”. Now I’m going to listen to Akin’s concession speech ha ha ha! Also, four more years! WOO HOO!
DAMMIT FLORIDA
I made it to the polls about 5 minutes before they closed. Phew. LA traffic is horrible — I forget because I’m usually walking or on the bus. Anyway, I like to think I turned the tide. π
So, projected Obama victory, but if romney wins, I’m getting smashed tomorrow afternoon to try and forget that that happened. Romney + Harper = bad things for Canada and the USA.
I just got home from the party downtown and man they lifted the roof off when the race was called and I cried twice.
Unfortunately we lost the Senate race, one of the House is not looking good and Arpaio won re-election unless the more than FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND PROVISIONAL BALLOTS break like 90% in Penzone’s favor.
Tammy Baldwin. Clare Mcaskill. Elizabeth Warren. OBAMA!
Dancing. Can’t sleep.
Aww, it’s like a big 2008 milkshake, but without the big fat anti-marriage turd in it this time. And magic brownies on the side!
Also pot.
And gay marriage.