Misogyny Thy Name is GOP

THINGS TRUMP HAS SAID ABOUT WOMEN:

• That sexual assault in the military is totally expected. He posted on X: 26,000 unreported sexual assults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?
• He told a lawyer she was “disgusting” for pumping breast milk. In 2011, Trump was testifying in a lawsuit when lawyer Elizabeth Beck asked for a break from the proceedings so she could pump breast milk for her 3-month-old daughter. “He got up, his face got red, he shook his finger at me and he screamed, ‘You’re disgusting, you’re disgusting,’ and he ran out of there,” Beck told CNN. The New York Times reports that Trump’s lawyer does not dispute that he made this comment.
• He wrote that women are inherently manipulative. In his book Trump: The Art of the Comeback (1997), he wrote: “Women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression ‘the weaker sex’ was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye—or perhaps another body part.”
• He suggested that women should be punished for having abortions. During a town hall meeting in 2016, Trump and Chris Matthews of MSNBC had a lengthy discussion about abortion. A transcript from the town hall reveals the following exchange: Matthews: Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no as a principle? Trump: The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment. Matthews: For the woman. Trump: Yeah, there has to be some form.
• That the ladies on “The Apprentice” are all super in to him. “It’s certainly not groundbreaking news that the early victories by the women on The Apprentice were, to a very large extent, dependent on their sex appeal,” Trump wrote in his 2004 book How to Get Rich.
• He made it clear that childrearing is “women’s work,” and most definitely beneath him. “I like kids. I mean, I won’t do anything to take care of them,” he told Howard Stern in 2005. “I’ll supply funds and she’ll take care of the kids. It’s not like I’m gonna be walking the kids down Central Park.”
• And he claimed that his marriage with Ivana fell apart because she was too successful as a professional. In a 1994 interview, Trump said: “There was a great softness to Ivana, and she still has that softness, but during this period of time, she became an executive, not a wife… You know, I don’t want to sound too much like a chauvinist, but when I come home and dinner’s not ready, I’ll go through the roof, OK?”

WHY WASN’T TRUMP FOUND LIABLE FOR RAPE: The distinction in law is about penetration. There was no solid evidence that he penetrated E. Jean Carroll with his penis. So what we know that he has been found liable for is touching, grabbing, groping for his own sexual pleasure against her will. And, in a way, it’s a distinction without a difference. Somebody who’s willing to do one over the objection of a victim is probably willing to do the other.

But from a legal standpoint, it is a different charge. 

SOME OF VANCE’S FAR RIGHT MISOGYNISTIC OPINIONS:

He opposes no-fault divorce, including those who do so to leave abusive marriages. He’s compared abortion to slavery, supports a national abortion ban and rejects exceptions for rape – “Two wrongs don’t make a right,” he said. He called women without children “miserable cat ladies” and villified working moms as bad parents who want to “shunt their kids into crap day care so they can enjoy more ‘freedom.’” For him, universal child care amounts to “class war against normal people.”

Vance has accused the media of mischaracterizing his words, so Newsweek has rounded up exactly what he said:

Vice News published the footage in July 2022, showing his answer to a moderator asking the question, in relation to his grandparents’ relationship: “What’s causing one generation to give up on fatherhood when the other one was so doggedly determined to stick it out, even in tough times?”

Vance, who was an Ohio Republican Senate nominee when the story first came out, said: “This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace, which is the idea that like, ‘Well, OK, these marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term.’

Just a sampling. Unfortunately, these are probably to be continued.