It’s impossible to see the way Republican men talk about women and not notice the misogyny.
If it feels like the misogyny just won’t stop, you’re not crazy. You’re just paying attention.
And yes, it is only going to get worse with Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the Democratic Party ticket.
We’re less than a month into her presidential campaign, and the attacks have only been amplified since Harris became the presumptive nominee after President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid. Notice the first wave of attacks that had nothing to do with her policies.
Someone ran it down to me like this.
When you make wives inferior to husbands, you make all men part of the elite. A beat cop will take abuse from a lieutenant because the beat cop will just go out and abuse some citizen.
Similarly, a lord can abuse a vassal, and the vassal will go home and kick their spouse.
It’s not about hating women, it’s about maintaining control. If husbands and wives are equal they are going to turn on the rulers; if the man feels like he’s in the elite he’ll break his back to keep the system up and running.
And the whole time these men have no realization that they’re being controlled this way. You control the women so you can control the men.
Its also why they treat their children like property with no agency, so they can justify venting their anger on them (and much worse beside).
That makes it even more insidious.