Man, Is Subdivision Sarah Gonna Screw Up This Election?

Remember the closeted Trump Voters discussion of 2016? If anything, this time they might be women.

“Subdivision Sarah” is a particular type of affluent or affluent-adjacent woman, usually middle-aged and white with maybe 2-3 children and a husband in a supposedly “prestige” job, who has an outsized impact on sociocultural and political things because they often say one thing (“I’m an ally!”) but believe another (“I don’t want to give up this neighborhood”).

Here is one quote that encapsulates the model of Subdivision Sarah pretty well:

Misogyny is outward hostility, then, but it also the feeling of shame, the fear of social shunning and loss of status, and the threat of desolation. You can see how women themselves — particularly white, straight, able-bodied women who are interested in maintaining their relative power within the status quo — both passively and actively participate in misogyny.

As Manne points out, “the misogyny of the most powerful…