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Coventina

(29,044 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 05:02 PM 15 hrs ago

Republican Women Suddenly Realize They're Surrounded by Misogynists

In 1982, Phyllis Schlafly, perhaps the most important anti-feminist in American history, debated the radical feminist law professor Catharine MacKinnon. Schlafly believed that sexism was a thing of the past; to her, if women had different roles in society than men, it was due to their distinct talents and inclinations. She herself, she said, had never experienced discrimination.

MacKinnon pointed out that Schlafly, who’d written extensively about defense policy, had wanted a position in Ronald Reagan’s Pentagon. Any man with Schlafly’s considerable accomplishments, MacKinnon argued, would have been given a job. Schlafly had to concede that her feminist foe had a point.

An ambitious woman who is willing to absolve the right of misogyny can go far, but rarely can she achieve the same status as a man. That’s especially true today, in a Republican Party that’s increasingly giving itself over to the most retrograde forms of sexism.

Recently several Republican congresswomen have been complaining, on and off the record, that their party’s leaders, especially Mike Johnson, the House speaker, don’t take them seriously. It started with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a onetime MAGA icon who is resigning next month. “They want women just to go along with whatever they’re doing and basically to stand there, smile and clap with approval, whereas they just have their good old boys club,” she said in September. It turns out she’s not alone in her frustration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/opinion/republican-women-misogyny-sexism.html?

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I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face!!!!!

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Republican Women Suddenly Realize They're Surrounded by Misogynists (Original Post) Coventina 15 hrs ago OP
Does anyone have a link without a paywall? Thanks. Diamond_Dog 15 hrs ago #1
Here you go IronLionZion 13 hrs ago #7
Thank you.. I dislike commenting without reading the entire article mountain grammy 13 hrs ago #14
Being pro-life maybe? KS Toronado 12 hrs ago #21
I'm pro life. I'm betting you are too mountain grammy 10 hrs ago #24
Found on bluesky: SouthBayDem 13 hrs ago #8
About Damn time women realize the Republican Party is NOT for them. ProudMNDemocrat 15 hrs ago #2
Not true. Many Republicans in the past supported women's rights. valleyrogue 7 hrs ago #31
I'm Sure I am Merely One in Hundreds of Millions Who Have Been Horrified to Watch Over the Years as repub Women The Roux Comes First 14 hrs ago #3
He still has a huge R approval rating hibbing 14 hrs ago #4
He did; something like 53% to 47%... Mostly boosted by white women. electric_blue68 11 hrs ago #23
Last I saw it was easy higher than that, 90+ n/t hibbing 10 hrs ago #29
Pew Research Center said "46% of women voted for Trump in 2024"... electric_blue68 8 hrs ago #30
I'm seeing a bit larger %, but regardless hibbing 7 hrs ago #32
What I remember....... Zackzzzz 14 hrs ago #5
Some of us knew decades ago that PoindexterOglethorpe 13 hrs ago #6
'Suddenly...' B.See 13 hrs ago #9
They went along with the neanderthal policies of the GOP flamingdem 13 hrs ago #10
Until they start standing up for all women senseandsensibility 13 hrs ago #11
Mostly based on their brand of Toxic Christianity... Wounded Bear 13 hrs ago #12
Goes along with the authoritarian aspect of most multigraincracker 12 hrs ago #22
Finally they are waking up malaise 13 hrs ago #13
methinks in their glee to trash POC and LGBTQ folk Skittles 12 hrs ago #17
Then they never studied him malaise 12 hrs ago #18
a lot of them have bought into their own bullshit Skittles 12 hrs ago #20
Wow, really? Gee, who knew? n/t TygrBright 12 hrs ago #15
if they are just NOW seeing this Skittles 12 hrs ago #16
Republicants? Misogynists? LilElf70 12 hrs ago #19
The "-ists" and "-phobes" stuff mugs the language... gulliver 10 hrs ago #25
Either "shut up and get back in the kitchen", or FREE yourself and join the Democrats!!!!! Jack Valentino 10 hrs ago #26
Grassley - republican women are lazy and cannot handle the job. Norrrm 10 hrs ago #27
They remind me of The Stepford Wives. Dave Bowman 10 hrs ago #28
Moses Mike says women can't... róisín_dubh 6 hrs ago #33

mountain grammy

(28,545 posts)
14. Thank you.. I dislike commenting without reading the entire article
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:08 PM
13 hrs ago

usually I say something stupid, unlike when I read the whole thing and say something stupic

nah, these women will stick with maga because, who the hell knows?

Well, I've been afraid of changin'
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too

mountain grammy

(28,545 posts)
24. I'm pro life. I'm betting you are too
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 09:23 PM
10 hrs ago

Most of us are and I won’t support republicans because they are proving to be anti life.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,471 posts)
2. About Damn time women realize the Republican Party is NOT for them.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 05:20 PM
15 hrs ago

Never has been. The GOP has ALWAYS been AGAINST women......

being their own persons
having bodily autonomy
having credit cards in their names
owning property
obtaining an education
VOTING
THINKING for themselves
having jobs
having other rights and freedoms as detailed in the US Constitution

It is about time Republican women break away from the party that has been hell bent on holding them back for well over 100 years.

valleyrogue

(2,504 posts)
31. Not true. Many Republicans in the past supported women's rights.
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 12:43 AM
7 hrs ago

Lots and lots of Republicans supported ERA and abortion rights, for example. Lots and lots of GOP politicians supported those and other women's rights issues. I am plenty old enough to remember when this was so.

It wasn't until the religious right got a stranglehold of the GOP beginning in 1980 did the attitude change. Moderate and liberal Republicans, and eventually the conservative ones, got run out of the party.

The Roux Comes First

(2,078 posts)
3. I'm Sure I am Merely One in Hundreds of Millions Who Have Been Horrified to Watch Over the Years as repub Women
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 06:00 PM
14 hrs ago

Have contorted themselves into knots doing their best despite their education, knowledge, and skills to play the weak and submissive 1950's-style domestic staff to their misogynistic male masters.

And of course the current cabinet and congress feature a serious bunch of unskilled, incompetent, unqualified women, wholly in keeping with the similarly unqualified, incompetent, and unskilled men in similar roles. These are of course the only bootlickers and unthreatening low-lifes our would-be gangster has the courage to empower.

hibbing

(10,508 posts)
4. He still has a huge R approval rating
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 06:12 PM
14 hrs ago

I do not know how that breaks down demographically, if I recall he received the majority of white women votes.

electric_blue68

(25,373 posts)
23. He did; something like 53% to 47%... Mostly boosted by white women.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 09:17 PM
11 hrs ago

😑😑😑

(I'm white)

electric_blue68

(25,373 posts)
30. Pew Research Center said "46% of women voted for Trump in 2024"...
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 11:32 PM
8 hrs ago

Up 2% from 2020.

Some small % were probably Lantina, or Black, etc.

hibbing

(10,508 posts)
32. I'm seeing a bit larger %, but regardless
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 01:19 AM
7 hrs ago

Still way higher than it should be of course. The 90% approval I mentioned was for all Republicans.

Peace

PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,388 posts)
6. Some of us knew decades ago that
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 06:31 PM
13 hrs ago

Republicans were sexist, racist, everything-ist.

I want to see the large rock these women have been under all along.

flamingdem

(40,768 posts)
10. They went along with the neanderthal policies of the GOP
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 06:47 PM
13 hrs ago

to get their slice of the pie.

Now they're being asked only to clean the pie plate and they're whining?

A few hints were given, obbbbviously!

senseandsensibility

(24,163 posts)
11. Until they start standing up for all women
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 06:52 PM
13 hrs ago

not just themselves I have no sympathy. Also, they need to vote for policies that help women and they're not even hinting that they'll do that.

multigraincracker

(36,808 posts)
22. Goes along with the authoritarian aspect of most
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:48 PM
12 hrs ago

Western religions. Also includes black and white thinking. Truth be told it is all gray.
I tend to vote for Democratic women over men as testosterone may cloud one’s thinking.
But that’s just me.

Skittles

(168,965 posts)
17. methinks in their glee to trash POC and LGBTQ folk
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:34 PM
12 hrs ago

they didn't realize FEMALES are a greedy old pig target, too

Skittles

(168,965 posts)
20. a lot of them have bought into their own bullshit
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:40 PM
12 hrs ago

you know, for example, trashing transgender folk is "protecting women" which of course is utterly ridiculous

Skittles

(168,965 posts)
16. if they are just NOW seeing this
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:33 PM
12 hrs ago

they are dumber than I thought and THAT is, like, REALLY FUCKING DUMB

LilElf70

(1,311 posts)
19. Republicants? Misogynists?
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:38 PM
12 hrs ago

Tell me it ain't so.

They've been misogynists since,,,,,,,,,,,,, FOREVER!!!!!

gulliver

(13,685 posts)
25. The "-ists" and "-phobes" stuff mugs the language...
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 09:34 PM
10 hrs ago

The destructive intellectual temptation is to hear those kinds of words from the different sides as indicating "polarization." I don't hear them that way. I hear them as lazy at best, primitive at worst.

Norrrm

(3,730 posts)
27. Grassley - republican women are lazy and cannot handle the job.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 09:50 PM
10 hrs ago

Grassley - republican women are lazy and cannot handle the job.

Grassley: Workload may keep women off committee

róisín_dubh

(12,214 posts)
33. Moses Mike says women can't...
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 01:53 AM
6 hrs ago

Compartmentalise? If that were the case, most awful men would be vanquished at this point and women would’ve risen victorious. I think it’s women’s ability to compartmentalise that helps us survive in this fucked up society.

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