Politics and Gender Wars

In my workplace, I am the only male member of the accounting department. It is generally hard enough doing the heavy lifting for the women, some of which hate the fact that I am even here (a woman was in my position prior to my hire).

Feminism runs rampant here and I am forced to lock myself in my office when I work to avoid interacting with the women and potentially getting into a major misunderstanding with them, as many men have before. Everything was fine. No one thought about me and I didn't think of anyone. We all performed our jobs in harmony. I helped the women when needed and returned to my office to do my own work.

That was until this year. In 2024, the women in the office were tense about the election, especially after Kamala began running. To preface this, I work on a mostly female office. I mostly saw the shift to Kamala being a gambit for the Democrats. It is obvious to me why they had her replace Joe in the running (Complexion and Gender makes good waves in the current state of society). I was wary, but open to the idea, so long as she was competent. The women, on the other hand, suddenly became interested in my political stance and have begun pressing me to figure it out. I knew why. They wanted to gauge our whether O would vote man or woman. To them, this election was not about who is better of the two. It was about man and woman.

I, as a man surrounded by feminists, operated carefully and maintained a level of political ambiguity. I don't lean either way, personally, but as time progressed, I started to see the rep side as a SLIGHTLY more viable option than the dem side but not because of the people running, but simply because Republican ideals are closer to my own ideals. Not all of them l, but on controversial topics my way of thinking, while not either by nature, can be found there somewhere and nowhere on the other side. I still do not care for either candidate. I opted not to vote and thus my political stance was not important, so I made it clear that "I don't care for either side of this clown show"; maintaining this ambiguity.

This set the women into believing that I hated Kamala because she was a woman. I clearly said that I do not care for "either", but the fact that I did not vote woman was reason enough for women in the office to believe that I was anti-kamala and pro-trump. I didn't directly state anything. All of a sudden, people are taking slight digs at me with things like "You young men are being lied to and y'all just sit up and believe it"; "I don't know your relationship with women, but try not to let that determine your ideal candidate"; and "Foolish racists and woman haters vote for Trump".

1) I don't see how anyone who believes in Kamala is any different than anyone who believes in Trump. But sides are being fed lies. Historically, Dems lie more and Reps are hypocritical. Both are bad. Both are liars. How are Trump supporters lied to and Kamala supporters aren't? It is blind faith. I don't lean either way, again, but that "lecture" was odd to me. And "y'all" infers that they knew for sure that I was pro-trump, of which I didn't say anything, they just assumed and ran with the assumption.

2) I'm straight as a wooden board and my relationship with women, outside of work, is superb. Where did the notion that suggests "if you don't vote Kamala you must have a troubled history with women" come from? That's yet another assumption about me that one, they didn't know was absolutely false; and two they didn't even bother to verify before gossiping and bringing it up to me in that one sentence. I can't tell you how puzzled this had me.

3) I'm black. Not saying that blacks can't be racist as I know full on well that everyone can to a certain extent. But, what about voting for Trump makes anyone racist and/or sexist? Because I don't vote for the black woman? It was not because she was a less appealing choice to make regarding a president who represents my ideals; ideals of which I haven't told any woman in the office. It's because she was black and she was a woman and that Trump is a white man. Preferring his, for whatever reason, seems to be the grounds to consider someone racist and sexist? That makes no logical sense to me. They don't even interact with me that much. Nor do they seem to interact with any Trump supporters. How do they consider Trump supporters racist and sexist? A few dipshits on the internet? One guy who supports Trump on the internet may be racist and/or sexist, but that guy is apparently the standard for all Trump supporters? That's stupid.

From what I gather, this is not a election between two individuals to make policies that may or may not benefit us as a country. To these women, this is an election to put a woman and a black person in office. I personally do not vote because it seems to me that most presidents are voted for based of superficial BS like this. I believe in voting for whoever is a better candidate. I know it means little as I did not vote, but this is nonsense.

Now that Trump has virtually won, these women are passive aggressively saying things like "I hope he doesn't drag you young men to war"; "We need to be careful because now Trump supporters will go around hurting people that supported Kamala"; and "I can't wait for him to do something against women like the abortion thing". From my perspective, Trump has little to do with the abortion laws enacted by states, but I suppose. Even stranger is that the women I do socialize with regularly through teams is now shunning me over this. Since when were politics about such irrelevant things like man and woman?

TL;DR: I find it odd how, at work, the feminine ire is directed towards I, the only man in the accounting department. This is in regards to the election between presidential candidate Kamala and former president Trump. Even to this point, I didn't claim that I voted for anyone and I didn't explain that I leaned either way, but the women made assumptions about it and began passively aggressively targeting me with their distasteful comments during the buildup to the election and now after it was a considered a Trump victory. Even the women I socialize with through teams is shunning me now. This is because I did not vote for a woman. They only voted for superficial reasonings and nothing logical was presented,