“I got mine, screw the rest of them” is a distressingly common human mindset. Female GOP legislators will argue that women in general aren’t qualified to vote but they themselves are exceptional and deserve special treatment.
I checked the Wikipedia article on Pete Hegseth’s sexist Protestant denomination, and the list of prominent members includes not a single member of Congress.
Will, as in one or two women in state legislatures do now? Or will as in this is a prediction?
Even if the U.S. becomes a full dictatorship, with elections purely for show, I am confident that women will still vote. Speculation otherwise is IMHO the kind of identity politics which lowers anti-MAGA credibility.
Well thank the Lord that there are no other denominations saying that women should adhere to Paul’s demand that women sit down, shut up, and make me a sandwich.
Women don’t wear hats anymore and according to Paul that makes them common street-walking prostitutes so we hould probably make a law requiring women to wear hats while not voting.
The backlash caught up with Hegseth. His spokeswoman (ha) said yesterday that “Of course the secretary thinks that women should have the right to vote.” He’ll be ducking the issue as fast as he ducks questions about his drinking.
Women in power being disinterested in or outright hostile to other women’s rights or access to power is very common. “I’ve got mine, screw you” is a sentiment widespread in both genders, and gender solidarity has always been a myth.
Here’s an essay, which is length AND TERRIFYING, from the author of the 2020 best-seller “Jesus and John Wayne”, which I finally read earlier this year. It was actually more interesting than it would have been at the time, from this vantage point. In short, in the home, he advocates using abusive measures to “make women submit”, and also believes in what amounts to torturing children as a method of discipline.
They don’t need to be identified. They show the world who, and what they are. They deserve every bit of derision that they earn. This is not ‘identity politics’.
This is a struggle to keep democracy, and rid ourselves of fascists. They cannot hide who they are. It’s their very nature to scream their bigotry and hate from every hill top. Thankfully, they won’t be able to climb many hills. We must keep it that way.