In a discussion on my congresswoman’s (Valerie Foushee) Facebook page, I pointed out that as written, the new Stop People Voting Act (not quite titled that way) would appear to disqualify women from voting if they changed their name when they married. Which would fit in with their long hatred of women’s suffrage.
An outraged Repub voter informed me that his party certainly doesn’t hate women, they’re just trying to prevent voter fraud, etc., etc. He is either lying or ignorant because yes, a lot of people on his side are misogynists and the rest of them don’t have any strong objections.
Take, for example, right-wing propagandist Nick Fuentes: “Women get sent to the gulags first, obviously. Which women? All women. Every woman. Every woman and girl is sent to the gulags. We will determine who the good ones are after the fact. Well, what about the good ones? What about the trad ones? First of all, there are no trad ones or good ones. Second of all, we will determine which ones are acceptable after they’re all imprisoned. Then we will let them out … Our number one political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned.”
Fuentes is extreme but as I’ve said before the policy is no enemies on the right — being a misogynist shit is acceptable in an ally because Fuentes is willing to punch down at the same enemy — uppity, insubordinate women — as the rest of them.
Elon Musk is a raging racist but he also agrees with an X post that ““It breaks my heart to say but in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make women sad :(.” I guarantee whoever posted that ain’t suffering heartbreak at the thought. Nor are the many right-wingers promoting young women getting married early and never aspiring beyond housewifery breaking their hearts at the thought of rolling back decades of women’s freedom. It’s built into the successors to Project 2025.
Even devoutly right-wing women like Dana Loesch aren’t safe from misogynist bullshit. Which she shouldn’t suffer any more than women whose views I respect. But it’s a reminder than Fuentes isn’t the only one determined to see all women in chains.
