MAGA can't decide if women should be allowed to dance

[marmar]

MAGA can’t decide if women should be allowed to dance
Republicans claim to love sorority dances. But mere months ago, carefree girls were objects of over-the-top hate

By Amanda Marcotte
Senior Writer
Published August 22, 2025 6:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) First things first: No, liberals aren’t mad that sorority girls post dancing videos online for rush season.

There have been a lot of MAGA influencers reposting videos with false accusations like “You know the LIBS are seething over this” and “BREAKING: Liberals are furious.” But as Kaitlyn Tiffany at the Atlantic wrote, “The only thing that is missing is evidence of seething libs.” Despite her best search efforts, Tiffany added, “I couldn’t find a single one.” When she asked one MAGA influencer to produce the evidence of outraged feminists, “He noted that many people replied to his posts saying that they weren’t mad about the TikTok dances. But, he said, ‘I don’t believe that.’”

It’s not mysterious what’s happening here. Republican pundits found a massive success distracting the MAGA base from Donald Trump‘s Jeffrey Epstein scandal by pretending there was some major progressive outcry against a sexy ad featuring Sydney Sweeney. (Liberal didn’t really care, and right-wingers were forced to create AI videos to manufacture “evidence” for this non-existent outrage.) Eager to keep distracting the public from Trump’s myriad of scandals and failures — while also having an excuse for public horniness —MAGA influencers tried to cook up a similar fake controversy about sorority dances. But what makes this all especially pathetic is that, as usual, MAGA social media prefers to throw a screeching fit about the loose morals of women who dance in online videos.

Last summer, MAGA posters rage-stroked over a video deemed “Gen Z boss and a mini,” which featured women in an office dancing and chanting about how they see themselves in the world. Right-wingers fumed, “This is cancer. No wonder modern women can’t get anyone to date them,” insisting it was proof that women should not be allowed to work outside the home. Conservatives hated the video so much that X users recirculated it in March with language about the “ruins of bastions of masculinity” and cast blame on the women for everything bad that men have experienced. This followed a similar freakout during Mardi Gras last year, when X users melted down over a video of a group of college-aged girls dancing to hip-hop at a gas station in Louisiana. This, in turn, followed another MAGA tantrum over a college-era video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., dancing with friends, which was held out as proof that she was a “clueless nitwit.”

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Unfortunately, closer examination reveals that these seeming contradictions make a sick sort of sense in the MAGA imagination. Girls, in this mindset, are allowed to dance and be sexy — but only for a very short time in their youth, and only to attract a husband. The expectation is that the dancing shoes will soon be put away, as these hot-and-free young women prepare to fulfill their God-given destiny as trapped helpmeets to the men they are expected to quickly marry. Sorority girls are indulged a brief moment of feeling alive, but only because, in this right-wing narrative, white sorority girls are supposedly all conservative and will soon submit to their lives of servitude. ...............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/08/22/maga-cant-decide-if-women-should-be-allowed-to-dance/

[marble falls]

1. Soooooooo, who are the men gonna dance with?

[John Farmer]

2. Usually when I read a thread title here

I have some idea of what's going to be discussed in the body of the thread. Not this time.

[Initech]

3. God these morons are so fucking insufferable.

Can we just collectively as a society decide not to give a flying shit about what they think? Stuff like this reeks of "main character syndrome".

[B.See]

4. Take it from me.

Trying to make sense of the mind of fkn PSYCHOPATHS is a wasted effort.

THEY'RE A CULT.