Now that Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio has risen to the national stage as Donald Trump’s running mate, Strange Republicans At the heart of their strangeness is how blatantly hostile they are to women.
Currently, Vance take up most of the headlinesAnd there’s a reason for that. His sarcasm about “childless women who love cats” Working Mother Those who say, “I’ll put my kids in a crappy daycare center and enjoy more ‘freedom’ in the paid workforce” are Misogynistic attitude.
Vance’s extreme misogyny dragging down Republican candidates— and it’s a big problem for Trump. But Vance isn’t the only person on the ballot this fall who has expressed the belief that childfree women are worthless and therefore shouldn’t have a say in society. There are plenty of Republican Senate candidates who have the same fundamental problem with women, and they’ll be getting attention, too.
Take Sam Brown of Nevada and his long history. Extremely anti-abortion He is desperately trying to back out of it, but there is no getting away from the actions he took or the deplorable words he said.
For example, when he was still living in Texas and running for state legislature there, he lost, and then approved He said one of the two women who made it to the runoff was better qualified than the other. What made her better? She had “shared experiences” in the community, and her opponent “was not married and had no children to raise,” he said.
Being accused of making such blatantly sexist comments has only dug his own hole deeper.
“I support women, so I’m fundamentally outside the definition of sexist,” he said. He has many black friends, too.
How sexist is Brown? The “Resources for Women” section of his campaign website states: Crisis Pregnancy Center—Medical “clinics” are deceiving pregnant women into thinking they are actually receiving medical care.
Of course, it’s not just men who are sexist. Arizona Senate candidate Kali Lake is a good example. Anti-Women Policy Positions Those are bad enough, but they seem to stem from her fundamental belief that women are inferior to men. Also and Also Men and women are not equal – that’s an important theme to her.
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In a June 2021 interview with “Backyard Politics,” Lake repetition “We are not equal to men”
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In a November 2021 interview with the American Monetary Association, Lake Repeated women are” […] “We try to be equal to men. But you know what? We’re not equal to men.”
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August 2022Crowder and loud” it is It was deleted For violating YouTube’s misinformation standards. Lake said. Steven Crowder, “God did not create us as equals to other humans.”
In 2022, Lake even went so far as to vacuum Trump’s upcoming carpet on his show, a move that earned him praise from Newsmax host Benny Johnson, who praised Lake’s “servant leadership.”
Meanwhile, MSNBC journalist Jahan Jones Said image “It perfectly embodies former President Donald Trump’s relationship with the Republican Party. and Republican Relationships with women.”
For both male and female Republicans, this casual sexism ranges from mildly amusing to downright shocking. Eric HovdeWhen he ran for the Senate in 2012, he often said that single mothers made him “deeply concerned about where this country is heading socially and morally.”
In 2016, Hovde is How anachronistically sexist he is.
“The sad thing is, most people in this country don’t know what the hell is going on. And the sad thing is, I would say women spend too much time on what’s going on in Hollywood,” he said. “And men are too obsessed with sports, and now it’s not just sports, it’s fantasy sports.”
Rounding out the list of ominous words coming from Republicans’ mouths are Tim Sheehy, who is running against Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in Montana, and This strangenessHe said something puzzling while complaining about political attacks by Tester.
“People ask me how do I fight back,” Sheehy said. “Number one, I can’t fight back, because it’s like, if you’re not a rapist, how do you prove you’re not a rapist? You can’t. It’s impossible.”
Not only is this a weird analogy, it’s problematic: he blatantly assumes that women will lie about rape. Good to know.
whole A bunch of bad Republican senators There’s a wide range of issues facing candidates this election cycle, but Republican women’s issues are erupting among the top candidates and will hurt them at the ballot box.
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