Megyn Kelly explains women like Renee Good wouldn’t be out on the streets confronting ICE if they weren’t too “obese and unattractive” to get laid. Yep, it’s the old Undead Sexist Cliche that if a woman isn’t hot enough, her opinions are invalid (though of course if she’s too hot, her opinions are also invalid). More on this cliche here and here. Kelly would undoubtedly feign outrage if I said I found her unattractive because of her belief torturing innocent people would be cool.
Here’s a related post: “Many, if not most of the messages shared a common thread, which was some version of: You can’t get laid by a real man yourself, and your feminist beliefs are only a reflection of your bitterness and jealousy about this. (As my smart friend Yael pointed out; only a woman’s own unfuckability could possibly propel her to care about her rights as a human being.) “
Gen Z is more liberal than their elders in lots of ways, but the men are more sexist.
A reminder that forced-birth laws have horrible consequences. For all that centrists Dems think we should stop discussing abortion, this kind of thing has gotten voters to the polls before — and even if it doesn’t, fighting these laws is absolutely the right thing to do. “If they really cared about ‘protecting women’: they would care about the fact that this administration refused to release the Epstein files… or they wouldn’t cut grants for crime victims’ services for survivors. They’d actually care about the fact this administration has elevated people who shield alleged sex traffickers like Andrew Tate. And they certainly wouldn’t be trying to force rape victims to stay pregnant no matter what.”
At the same link, a discussion of South Carolina’s efforts to criminalize donating to abortion funds.
“Men who call women fucking bitches don’t much like it when women talk back. They especially don’t like it when women remind them who they really are: small, pathetic, cowardly. What’s that Margaret Atwood quote? “Men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them.”” — Jessica Valenti on Renee Good’s killer.
“They say that the reason maternity wards are shutting down and doctors are leaving is because there aren’t enough babies being born in these states—a problem, they claim, “pro-life laws could be expected to help solve. That’s right: The Charlotte Lozier Institute says that forcing women to give birth will help to keep maternity wards open.” — Valenti again. Even if true (it’s not), as I’ve said before women are not a means to an end.
Toddler Toady Mehmet Oz, however, thinks it’s awesome that rural hospitals with no ob/gyns are now having to use robot ultrasounds.
England “got freedom, they got liberty, they got rule of law, they got technology. They got better treatment of women, a polite society. So many great virtues. But these were products of a coal-powered society.” — Energy Secretary Chris Wright explaining why using coal as an energy source is a good thing.
“I am talking about something much subtler but widespread. It is a factor in the coverage of abortion rights and other “women’s issues” in the news. It is a factor in the election. I am going to start from my experience of something I might call a black mental hole. Some subjects simply cannot be comprehended by some people. They may be able to read the words and even parrot some ideas, but then the ideas drain out of their heads, beyond the event horizon. It is not a denial of those ideas or argument against them. It comes before those mental processes. The subject simply does not exist in their universe.” — Cheryl Rofer
For an example of Rofer’s point, “Whisky Pete” Hegseth can’t conceive that women are qualified to fight in combat.
“Murder didn’t make us sweat or feel like we were wrong for watching it. Boobs did.”
“Historically, church attendance and participation has been more attractive to women than to men. So Oh Noes!!1! — How can we make church “manlier” and more appealing to men to keep it from a supposed death cycle of feminization? It’s always been an odd panic, one based on choosing to view churches’ apparent success in attracting women as, instead, a threat to men and to masculinity in the abstract.”
“I am asking you, from the core of my being, to take our lives seriously. Please do not put our lives in the hands of politicians, mostly men, who have no clue or do not care about what we as women are going through, who don’t fully grasp the broad-reaching health implications that their misguided policies will have on our health outcomes.”
The Trump administration’s recent amplification of a narrow research study suggesting that acetaminophen use during pregnancy can cause autism gives Pregnancy Justice additional concerns about what else could make pregnant women vulnerable to prosecution in the future. “We are moving into a place, potentially, where pregnant people’s behavior and exposure of their pregnancy to any risk—whether perceived or actual, justified by science or not—can further diminish their rights.”
“They have justified [sexual assault] against minor girls by refusing to hold abusers accountable, and by vilifying girls as the temptress and enemy of men, and by shopping for wives in the youth group, and even by using 14-year-old Mary as the first holy example, for years.”
Cheryl Rofer provides an excellent round up of more moments of sexism.
I’ll close with this post, which I think has much truth to it.
