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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, whod written extensively about defense policy, had wanted a position in Ronald Reagans Pentagon. Any man with Schlaflys 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. Thats especially true today, in a Republican Party thats 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 partys leaders, especially Mike Johnson, the House speaker, dont 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 theyre 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 shes 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!!!!!
Diamond_Dog
(39,505 posts)IronLionZion
(50,615 posts)mountain grammy
(28,545 posts)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
KS Toronado
(22,569 posts)mountain grammy
(28,545 posts)Most of us are and I wont support republicans because they are proving to be anti life.
SouthBayDem
(33,074 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(20,471 posts)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)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)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)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)😑😑😑
(I'm white)
hibbing
(10,508 posts)electric_blue68
(25,373 posts)Up 2% from 2020.
Some small % were probably Lantina, or Black, etc.
hibbing
(10,508 posts)Still way higher than it should be of course. The 90% approval I mentioned was for all Republicans.
Peace
Zackzzzz
(224 posts)She wanted us/you/me to be full-time Homemakers
PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,388 posts)Republicans were sexist, racist, everything-ist.
I want to see the large rock these women have been under all along.
B.See
(7,546 posts)it is to laugh.
flamingdem
(40,768 posts)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)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.
Wounded Bear
(63,666 posts)Prove me wrong.
multigraincracker
(36,808 posts)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 ones thinking.
But thats just me.
malaise
(291,757 posts)Rec
Skittles
(168,965 posts)they didn't realize FEMALES are a greedy old pig target, too
malaise
(291,757 posts)Poor fools.
Skittles
(168,965 posts)you know, for example, trashing transgender folk is "protecting women" which of course is utterly ridiculous
TygrBright
(21,271 posts)Skittles
(168,965 posts)they are dumber than I thought and THAT is, like, REALLY FUCKING DUMB
LilElf70
(1,311 posts)Tell me it ain't so.
They've been misogynists since,,,,,,,,,,,,, FOREVER!!!!!
gulliver
(13,685 posts)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.
Jack Valentino
(4,173 posts)Norrrm
(3,730 posts)Grassley - republican women are lazy and cannot handle the job.
Grassley: Workload may keep women off committee
Dave Bowman
(6,448 posts)róisín_dubh
(12,214 posts)Compartmentalise? If that were the case, most awful men would be vanquished at this point and women wouldve risen victorious. I think its womens ability to compartmentalise that helps us survive in this fucked up society.