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Coventina

(29,733 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 06:02 PM Dec 2025

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 Dec 2025 OP
Does anyone have a link without a paywall? Thanks. Diamond_Dog Dec 2025 #1
Here you go IronLionZion Dec 2025 #7
Thank you.. I dislike commenting without reading the entire article mountain grammy Dec 2025 #14
Being pro-life maybe? KS Toronado Dec 2025 #21
I'm pro life. I'm betting you are too mountain grammy Dec 2025 #24
Found on bluesky: SouthBayDem Dec 2025 #8
About Damn time women realize the Republican Party is NOT for them. ProudMNDemocrat Dec 2025 #2
Not true. Many Republicans in the past supported women's rights. valleyrogue Dec 2025 #31
Sure, many Republicans 40+ years ago supported women's rights/ERA/abortion rights, BUT. . . markpkessinger Dec 2025 #42
The GOP really was a "big tent" then. valleyrogue Dec 2025 #47
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 Dec 2025 #3
He still has a huge R approval rating hibbing Dec 2025 #4
He did; something like 53% to 47%... Mostly boosted by white women. electric_blue68 Dec 2025 #23
Last I saw it was easy higher than that, 90+ n/t hibbing Dec 2025 #29
Pew Research Center said "46% of women voted for Trump in 2024"... electric_blue68 Dec 2025 #30
I'm seeing a bit larger %, but regardless hibbing Dec 2025 #32
What I remember....... Zackzzzz Dec 2025 #5
Some of us knew decades ago that PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2025 #6
Religion rock get the red out Dec 2025 #34
'Suddenly...' B.See Dec 2025 #9
They went along with the neanderthal policies of the GOP flamingdem Dec 2025 #10
Until they start standing up for all women senseandsensibility Dec 2025 #11
Mostly based on their brand of Toxic Christianity... Wounded Bear Dec 2025 #12
Goes along with the authoritarian aspect of most multigraincracker Dec 2025 #22
Finally they are waking up malaise Dec 2025 #13
methinks in their glee to trash POC and LGBTQ folk Skittles Dec 2025 #17
Then they never studied him malaise Dec 2025 #18
a lot of them have bought into their own bullshit Skittles Dec 2025 #20
Wow, really? Gee, who knew? n/t TygrBright Dec 2025 #15
if they are just NOW seeing this Skittles Dec 2025 #16
Republicants? Misogynists? LilElf70 Dec 2025 #19
The "-ists" and "-phobes" stuff mugs the language... gulliver Dec 2025 #25
Either "shut up and get back in the kitchen", or FREE yourself and join the Democrats!!!!! Jack Valentino Dec 2025 #26
Grassley - republican women are lazy and cannot handle the job. Norrrm Dec 2025 #27
Are we sure Grassley is actually alive? lonely bird Dec 2025 #38
They remind me of The Stepford Wives. Dave Bowman Dec 2025 #28
Moses Mike says women can't... róisín_dubh Dec 2025 #33
Republican men are too self-absorbed... GiqueCee Dec 2025 #35
Like all MAGAts, voting against their best interests, and the benefit of the country as a whole. Martin68 Dec 2025 #36
To me it looks like Erica Kirk hoosierspud Dec 2025 #37
The list is long NHvet Dec 2025 #39
To be completely (un)fair, Mike Johnson doesn't take anything seriously enough to have read about... Ol Janx Spirit Dec 2025 #40
The universal clue by four finally knocking some sense into your sweet, silly heads? mwmisses4289 Dec 2025 #41
Maybe this makes me a bad person, but I have zero symnpathy for any woman who sides with the right-wingers Lanius Dec 2025 #43
republicans treated schlafly like they treat women today BaronChocula Dec 2025 #44
What in the hell did they expect? Susan Calvin Dec 2025 #45
SUDDENLY??? elleng Dec 2025 #46

mountain grammy

(29,035 posts)
14. Thank you.. I dislike commenting without reading the entire article
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 08:08 PM
Dec 2025

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

(29,035 posts)
24. I'm pro life. I'm betting you are too
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:23 PM
Dec 2025

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

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,898 posts)
2. About Damn time women realize the Republican Party is NOT for them.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 06:20 PM
Dec 2025

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

(2,716 posts)
31. Not true. Many Republicans in the past supported women's rights.
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 01:43 AM
Dec 2025

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.

markpkessinger

(8,912 posts)
42. Sure, many Republicans 40+ years ago supported women's rights/ERA/abortion rights, BUT. . .
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 03:10 PM
Dec 2025

. . . As the party was taken over by religious extremists in the late 70s/80s, and as the extremist agenda came to dominate that party's politics, many of those same Republicans said nary a word in protest. So you have to wonder exactly how deep that support ever really was.

valleyrogue

(2,716 posts)
47. The GOP really was a "big tent" then.
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 09:10 PM
Dec 2025

There is no point trying to discount it. The fact is many Republicans did.

There was NO religious right nonsense until Paul Weyrich and his Heritage Foundation actually started courting them. This was in the late 1970s. The "evangelicals" up to that point were apolitical.

That is just a fact.

The Roux Comes First

(2,278 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, 07:00 PM
Dec 2025

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

(10,598 posts)
4. He still has a huge R approval rating
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:12 PM
Dec 2025

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

electric_blue68

(26,856 posts)
23. He did; something like 53% to 47%... Mostly boosted by white women.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:17 PM
Dec 2025

😑😑😑

(I'm white)

electric_blue68

(26,856 posts)
30. Pew Research Center said "46% of women voted for Trump in 2024"...
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 12:32 AM
Dec 2025

Up 2% from 2020.

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

hibbing

(10,598 posts)
32. I'm seeing a bit larger %, but regardless
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 02:19 AM
Dec 2025

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

Peace

PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,493 posts)
6. Some of us knew decades ago that
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:31 PM
Dec 2025

Republicans were sexist, racist, everything-ist.

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

flamingdem

(40,898 posts)
10. They went along with the neanderthal policies of the GOP
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:47 PM
Dec 2025

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

(24,978 posts)
11. Until they start standing up for all women
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 07:52 PM
Dec 2025

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

(37,651 posts)
22. Goes along with the authoritarian aspect of most
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 08:48 PM
Dec 2025

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

(171,718 posts)
17. methinks in their glee to trash POC and LGBTQ folk
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 08:34 PM
Dec 2025

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

Skittles

(171,718 posts)
20. a lot of them have bought into their own bullshit
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 08:40 PM
Dec 2025

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

Skittles

(171,718 posts)
16. if they are just NOW seeing this
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 08:33 PM
Dec 2025

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

LilElf70

(1,569 posts)
19. Republicants? Misogynists?
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 08:38 PM
Dec 2025

Tell me it ain't so.

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

gulliver

(13,985 posts)
25. The "-ists" and "-phobes" stuff mugs the language...
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:34 PM
Dec 2025

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

(5,059 posts)
27. Grassley - republican women are lazy and cannot handle the job.
Tue Dec 9, 2025, 10:50 PM
Dec 2025

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

Grassley: Workload may keep women off committee

lonely bird

(2,943 posts)
38. Are we sure Grassley is actually alive?
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 10:47 AM
Dec 2025

Maybe they just wheel out his body and have a ventriloquist in hiding.

róisín_dubh

(12,338 posts)
33. Moses Mike says women can't...
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 02:53 AM
Dec 2025

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.

GiqueCee

(4,259 posts)
35. Republican men are too self-absorbed...
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 09:51 AM
Dec 2025

... to realize that their obscene misogyny is a glaring neon sign of their weakness of character, if they have any character at all, which I am inclined to doubt.
They are the scum of the Earth, which says nothing good about those who vote for them.

Martin68

(27,749 posts)
36. Like all MAGAts, voting against their best interests, and the benefit of the country as a whole.
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 10:18 AM
Dec 2025

Last edited Wed Dec 10, 2025, 10:47 PM - Edit history (1)

hoosierspud

(243 posts)
37. To me it looks like Erica Kirk
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 10:36 AM
Dec 2025

Is filling Phyllis Schlafley's role--making a career out of telling other women that they shouldn't have careers.

NHvet

(298 posts)
39. The list is long
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 11:41 AM
Dec 2025

of those that align with the (R) side of politics even if the ideologies of party are opposite of theirs.

Ol Janx Spirit

(1,012 posts)
40. To be completely (un)fair, Mike Johnson doesn't take anything seriously enough to have read about...
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 01:44 PM
Dec 2025

..it, heard about it, or spoken to anyone about it.

How could he possibly know what his female caucus members want?

Maybe if he achieves his goal of becoming a real boy one day he will have real-boy ears that can listen....

mwmisses4289

(4,186 posts)
41. The universal clue by four finally knocking some sense into your sweet, silly heads?
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 02:15 PM
Dec 2025

Let's hope it takes root.
But i still won't trust you.

Lanius

(662 posts)
43. Maybe this makes me a bad person, but I have zero symnpathy for any woman who sides with the right-wingers
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 03:18 PM
Dec 2025

until doing so inconveniences them.

BaronChocula

(4,555 posts)
44. republicans treated schlafly like they treat women today
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 03:19 PM
Dec 2025

She pursued recognition as an expert on weapons and armaments, but she was a "girl." So the boys told her to go handle girl issues which she did without blinking. And she liked it.

Susan Calvin

(2,438 posts)
45. What in the hell did they expect?
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 04:09 PM
Dec 2025

The misogyny is baked in, and it's been going on for a long time. I will never understand some people.

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