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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe New Yorker: "The G.O.P.’s Misogyny Primary"
Excerpt from a great article:
An example of misogyny is when someone online threatens to rape and mutilate a woman whose opinions that person does not like. Another is when a Presidential candidate says of a female journalist whose questions he finds impertinent, There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of herwherever.
The day after Trump made his comment about Megyn Kelly, he was disinvited from the RedState networks annual conference of G.O.P. leaders. RedStates editor-in-chief, Erick Erickson, ... was prone to Trump-like woman-baiting. (A tweet from 2010, spotted by my colleague Ryan Lizza: Good thing I didnt suggest the feminists you know shave. Theyd be at my house trying a post-birth abortion on me).
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its hard not to see some sort of misogyny in the unseemly scramble to plant a flag at the very farthest frontier of anti-abortion territory, positively eager to reiterate, as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did, that bans on abortion should include no exception to save the life of a woman. Rare as such situations areanti-abortion advocates are right to say that they dont occur oftenwhy would you want to bar even the possibility of saving a womans life over that of the fetus she is carrying? And whatever their motivation or intentions, the effect of the substantial restrictions on abortion that the Republican candidates favor would be damaging to women.
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The New Yorker: "The G.O.P.’s Misogyny Primary" (Original Post)
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Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)1. kick
pampango
(24,692 posts)2. "At the beginning of the twenty-first century, sexism is very much on the wane, but misogyny is not"
In the United States, our most successful demagogues have often become so by making skillful use of whatever the newest media was at the time. Charles Coughlin, the Catholic priest who railed against Jews and capitalism in the nineteen-thirties, did most of his railing via the radios that the American masses had just recently acquired. In the early fifties, Joseph McCarthy took advantage of televisions advent to attract gavel-to-gavel attention for his congressional hearings. Donald Trump is a celebrity demagogue, and, for the moment, anyway, the leading Republican Presidential candidate, because of reality television and Twitter.
Here in America, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, sexism is very much on the wane, but misogyny is not. Sexismthe conviction that women dont deserve equal pay, political rights, or access to educationcan be combatted by argument, by anti-discrimination laws, and by giving women the opportunity to prove their ability. Misogyny is not amenable to such advances; they can in some circumstances exacerbate it, though they may drive it underground.
Ross Perot, the last shoot-from-the-hip, vote-for-me-Im-a businessman, Republican-ish candidate we saw on the Presidential debate stage, was not given to insulting women. So on one level, Trumps preening misogyny and gross-out insinuations are something newa weird product of his own personality and the id-indulging media through which he generally communicates. In their exchange at last weeks debate, Kelly reminded him, Youve called women you dont like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals, and then asked if that called to mind the temperament of a man we should elect as President. It was a legitimate question, but Trump offered no real answer, let alone regret; the problem, he said, was political correctness. None of the other nine candidates onstage countered this interpretation.
Here in America, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, sexism is very much on the wane, but misogyny is not. Sexismthe conviction that women dont deserve equal pay, political rights, or access to educationcan be combatted by argument, by anti-discrimination laws, and by giving women the opportunity to prove their ability. Misogyny is not amenable to such advances; they can in some circumstances exacerbate it, though they may drive it underground.
Ross Perot, the last shoot-from-the-hip, vote-for-me-Im-a businessman, Republican-ish candidate we saw on the Presidential debate stage, was not given to insulting women. So on one level, Trumps preening misogyny and gross-out insinuations are something newa weird product of his own personality and the id-indulging media through which he generally communicates. In their exchange at last weeks debate, Kelly reminded him, Youve called women you dont like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals, and then asked if that called to mind the temperament of a man we should elect as President. It was a legitimate question, but Trump offered no real answer, let alone regret; the problem, he said, was political correctness. None of the other nine candidates onstage countered this interpretation.
Gothmog
(144,939 posts)3. The GOP has a war against women and Trump is the not the worst offender