Scott Yenor, a raving misogynist who believes “a healthy society requires patriarchy” (as I explain at the link, it doesn’t) is one of the new trustees for the University of West Florida. I can understand WUWF treading cautiously but still,, describing Yenor’s opinions as a critique of feminism is sanewashing.
Quoted in the same article, Yenor says “We need to de-emphasize our colleges and universities… Almost everything in these indoctrination camps complicates the male-female dance.” He concluded the talk by suggesting that “the effort to erase the old standard of public men and private woman has been a mistake.” No, it wasn’t. And saying it was isn’t an attacking feminism, it’s an urge that women go back to being submissive chattel. And recycling the undead sexist cliche that women shouldn’t be educated.
In other links about the world conservatives want:
“A substantial group, many of them in politics, has taken to the internet to argue that a 17-year-old football player should get to do as he likes to a 15-year-old girl—say, for example, trap her in a bedroom, violently attempt to remove her clothes, and cover her mouth to muffle her screams—without consequences to his life or reputation.”
“Most men are not Nick Fuentes. Most men are not celebrating the fearmongering belief that men will now own women’s bodies — even if all Trump-voting men did feel that way, just under half of male voters chose Kamala Harris, remember.” — from an article on the Washington Post arguing most men and women aren’t at each other’s throats. I don’t think misogyny is as fringe as she does and I don’t think “both sides” is the way to look at it. As the Margaret Atwood quote goes, hate from women typically means staying away from men; hate from men typically means killing or assaulting women.
“To be crystal clear: Republicans want women with life-threatening pregnancies—even when they’re very early on—to be forced into major abdominal surgery, or unnecessary and traumatic vaginal delivery, rather than get a ten-minute abortion.” — Jessica Valenti on how Republicans are trying to redefine abortion.
Yet another version of “women should stay virgins because of science” which is a variation on this undead sexist cliche.
“Right after the election, Pastor Joel Webbon, president of the Right Response Ministries, said that half of his vote was stolen from him by the 19th Amendment—that would be the 1920 amendment that enshrined women’s right to vote.” Yep, Webbon’s spouting yet another USC.
“Texas Rep. Steve Toth introduced a bill this week that would ban pro-choice websites. Under the “Women and Child Safety Act,” internet service providers would be forced to block any site that contains information about how to obtain abortions or abortion medication. That means the websites of pro-choice organizations and abortion funds would be banned—even Abortion, Every Day would be illegal under the bill.”
What never ceases to amaze me is how little these men think of women—and how openly they’re willing to admit as much. KFF Health News reports, for example, that at one point Craig even suggested that a woman might step on a rusty nail in order to claim she had an infection and needed an abortion. He said if the court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, “women [would] have a right to kill their unborn baby anytime it’s disabled, anytime they have an infection.”
Before second-wave feminism, flappers destroyed America!
For more of me venting about misogyny, check out Undead Sexist Cliches in paperback or ebook.
