Hating On women, The Right Wing Way

IT IS ALWAYS THE WOMEN against whom the right wing, particularly the religious right, launches the scornful slings and arrows of pseudo righteous wrath. It happened with Hillary Clinton, it happened with Nancy Pelosi, with Michelle Obama, and now, of latest vintage, its happening against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Kamala Harris. Often, indeed usually, the vile bile has something to do with sex and personal appearance, unsurprisingly. Hillary Clinton simply wasn't good looking enough. And how dare her act like an obedient, loyal little wifie by standing by her man in the face of his serial infidelities?! had she left him, the complaint would have been abandonment of marriage vows. AOC and Kamala Harris appear to be too attractive for their own own; accusations of sexual misconduct are always reserved for attractive women who become a bit too successful and strong minded in this right wing man's world. And that, is a nutshell, is the essence of the problem. We are still living with the old boyz network is these United States of Misogyny. Up rises a woman too high, and down she must be made to descend, lest she become a threat to patriarchal power. Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh are the ringleaders of the anti-feminist gang. recall the key maxim in Limbaugh's litany of fatuous irrevocable rules of life; that the feminist movement was created for the sole purpose of giving unattractive women access to mainstream society. Misogyny personified, embodied by Rush. his latest target is Kamala Harris, whom he accuses of having slept her way to the top, without, as always in Limbaugh's allegations, the slightest shred of evidence. Trump's trope is always the same, his name calling never varies; she's a slut, a pig, a nasty woman, and for forth, endlessly the garbage spews forth from the great prevaricator and gangster in chief. note that none of this causes so much as the raising of an eyebrow from the conservative Christian minions who inhabit the white Christian Republican party. count on the assault on Harris to proceed unabashed, all the way to the White House. Sarah Palin should still be counting her lucky stars that she escaped the slaughter house, and we all know why; she, after all, is a good little right wing Republican.