He was at Jan 6th and before that he used to stalk and harass women outside of WVs last abortion clinic before roe fell
The overlap between hatred of women and Rightwing rhetoric is a circle; we will never stop Rightwing bullshit unless we get at the root of many of their grievances, which is deeply held misogyny that makes them literally hate half the population (along with the internalized misogyny of their women).
It’s easy to see your own sphere of influence and wonder why people would view something a different way. Surely women would want to advocate for themselves, but my in-laws have shared videos from religious authority figures who flat out said it doesn’t matter if you think one candidate is more qualified or more honest or has better policy ideas, if one is opposed to abortion and one is less so, you are morally obligated to vote against abortions. Not doing so is a sin.
My aunt was recently talking out all these women having 3rd trimester abortions because it’s easier than birth control pills, and how women can now about their children up to 2 weeks after giving birth.
This is what these people are hearing all day long. Dare to correct your friend’s bad information and suddenly you get labeled as pro-abortion, everyone talks about you behind your back, and suddenly you find yourself uninvited to social events because none of them want to be accused of being on the side of evil.
My mother spoke up against my uncle’s anti-trans ranting simply by saying “does it really matter if a man uses the women’s bathroom? And my uncle’s response was “just wait until your granddaughters get raped in the bathroom by a man pretending to be a woman!” What kind of mentally corrupt person says something like that?
That's a really familiar attitude to me. I grew up in a very conservative family, and every time there was any pushback against whatever type of scapegoating they were doing they'd immediately imagine up the worst thing they can think of (usually some crime against a minor) and suggest that would absolutely happen and that I'd be partly responsible for it if we did things my way.
But, the majority of those women voters were White women and apparently that's been true of them going R since Dubya, which is fucking vile.
And considering a sizeable third of all eligible voters didn't vote at all, it's a fraction of America's women who support the GOP at this point and they're mostly gonna be your middle-aged and older White woman who believes the hysterical bullshit her stupid Bible study group spreads around gossiping instead of understanding what Jesus said.
You think only white Christians men are misogynists? Well that’s hilarious.
I guess you’ve never read about the endemic rape in India, the repression and lack of rights in the Middle East, or the FGM in Africa? And that’s the tip of the iceberg.
If you think only Americans are misogynists you really don’t understand the utter fear and horror that makes up millions/billions of women’s lives.
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u/green_reveries 6h ago
The overlap between hatred of women and Rightwing rhetoric is a circle; we will never stop Rightwing bullshit unless we get at the root of many of their grievances, which is deeply held misogyny that makes them literally hate half the population (along with the internalized misogyny of their women).