I know I’m going to annoy a lot of people with this, but here goes:
If you have noticed, the overwhelming majority of anti-ICE and anti-US protesters here in the US are… white females. My bet is that a majority are single. We know there are also some lesbian couples at these protests as well. In the recent incident when an ICE officer was hit by a car and discharged a firearm at the driver, we know the driver was a female.
So here goes my amateur psychological analysis. Say of it what you will. That’s what the “comments” section is for.
Women are child-bearers. Men aren’t. Women have the “plumbing” necessary to produce new life. Women know this from their youngest years. Most have been taught by their mothers about babies: where the come from, not necessarily how they are produced (the “birds and the bees”), but definitely that they – women – are special because of it.
As girls grow up into women, they take notice of other women with babies in strollers, playing with their babies, and watching mothers feed their babies – usually in public with a bottle that has a nipple on it. Babies latch onto that nipple and suck milk out of the bottle. Girls understand this, and the understanding and purpose becomes deeper as girls turn into women.
The instinct to have a child is strong enough that the mating ritual – although sometimes intentionally truncated – is practiced enough to understand the human drive to have a child. We sometimes call this a “mothering instinct”: the desire to give birth and care for a child. This instinct is unavoidable. It is a combination of tens of thousands of years of human existence and some specifically female hormones. It is both a physical and psychological phenomenon.
When many women see an unaccompanied child, their first instinct is to look around for the mother. Have you ever noticed this? Their first instinct is to care for and protect the child. Some even express anger when the mother returns: “Why did you leave your baby alone????” I’ve seen it. I’m sure you’ve seen it.
Have you noticed that a large number of the protesters at these events are women who most likely don’t have children? Ok, maybe some of those blue-haired, face-pierced, sloppily dressed women have a child somewhere, but my guess is that they don’t. If they do, the question is: why they would put themselves in danger of being arrested or physically harmed with a child at home? Do they have a caretaker? Did they leave the child with parents or a trusted relative?
I tend to believe that they do not have children.
So…
I think these unattached and childless women see illegal aliens not as fully formed adults but as runaways from home, children who are on their own in a strange land and need their protection. I believe their behaviors are based on the lack of exercise of a mother’s love, and they believe that it is their purpose to protect illegals as a mother protects her child. They don’t have someone within their reach to be their children so they are reaching out at what they perceive as replacement objects for that motherly instinct.
I look at the protesters who attack law enforcement officers and my first thought is that I’m seeing mothers attack someone who is a threat to their children, not people who are thinking clearly about whether those illegals are often guilty of serious crimes. They react as if the illegals are their own children. They interpose themselves between the illegal and the law enforcement officer. They attack the law enforcement officer in an attempt to allow the illegal to flee.
Is it at least possible that these protests by often-childless liberal women are due to their being disappointed at not having their own children? That their maternal drive has overpowered their ability to exercise logic and reason, and instead they are driven by blind emotion?
I am not a female so I do not understand the power that the childbearing instinct can have on a woman. But I also know that there are continuous events in a woman’s life that constantly remind her of her gender, and that sometimes those events can momentarily overwhelm a woman’s ability to think clearly (don’t deny it, ladies – you know it’s true). This isn’t a bad thing: it’s biology. And biology is neither good nor bad. It just… is.
So my question is: can the drive to be a mother be so powerful and so overwhelming that even the blue-haired, face-pierced, dedicated anti-law-enforcement misandrist is driven to violent protests due to the instinct to be a mother?
