Why GOP Legislators Attack Women
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Why GOP Legislators Attack Women
What do Republican legislators have against women? At first, I thought it was just a matter of returning to the 1950s when women managed the house and were supposed to come to the door carrying a martini (shaken not stirred) and wearing an apron, heels, and nothing else. But then I realized it was something far deeper and far more sinister.
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J.D. Vance’s grandparents raised him and his siblings. The GOP candidate for Senate (R-OH) bragged that even though his grandmother tried to kill his grandfather for coming home violently drunk during their brutal marriage, they never divorced, according to The Vanity Fair:
‘If people love their kids, they’ll stay in violent marriages.’
Then Vance added:
‘Even if said marriages are “violent,” my grandparents had an incredibly chaotic marriage in a lot of ways. But they never got divorced. They were together to the end, till death do us part—that was a really important thing to my grandmother and my grandfather.’
What? Is he crazy?
It just hit me that the old White, dark money megadonors behind the GOP want White women to have as many babies as they can bear. A friend’s husband wanted 12 children. They compromised and had 10. True.
But these old White guys could care less how many women die of ectopic pregnancies, deaths in utero, or post-miscarriage hemorrhaging. Just keep churning out all those White babies for a return to White dominance in a country quickly going from White to Cream and Cocoa.
Note that the GOP is well aware that Black and Brown women die far more frequently than White women in pregnancy, clearly the result of prejudice and lower incomes. No wonder they were adamant about the GOP killing President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Bill. It supported all women with child care and other advantages.
Before The Miraculous Pill in the 60s, a husband was a woman’s only way to support herself and their children. Married women had almost no other alternative to earn money except selling their chickens’ eggs for their “egg money” or giving the occasional piano lesson. Husbands and eldest sons made all the decisions. Few women could even drive cars. Widows opened make-do restaurants, rented out rooms, took in ironing, or cleaned others’ houses.
But then amid flashing lights and drum rolls, The Miraculous Pill appeared. Women were free to pursue careers. They gained autonomy and power. Not exactly what Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) ordered.
Walking in rigid lockstep, 195 House Republicans voted against a bill protecting birth control:
‘[T]he Republican Party has made it more than clear how it feels about women. (And young girls, given the conservatives who think it’s fine to force a 10-year-old to give birth to her rapist’s child.)’
Then, there was the “loathsome, moronic, and thoroughly repugnant” Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the guy under investigation for trafficking underage girls for sex. The Vanity Fair reported on him recently.
Gaetz told an audience consisting of teens and young women:
‘Have you watched these pro-abortion, pro-murder rallies? The people are just disgusting. But why is it is that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb. These people are odious on the inside and out. They’re like 5’2”, 350 pounds, and they’re like, “Give me my abortion or I’ll get up and march and protest.”
‘I’m thinking, March? You look like you got ankles weaker than the legal reasoning behind Roe v. Wade. A few of ‘em need to get up and march. They need to get up and march for like an hour a day, swing those arms, get the blood pumping, maybe mix in a salad.’
Need I say more?
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