The socialism of morons
Becca Rothfeld on the distorting force of misogyny
We’ve grown accustomed to Republicans trotting out a range of incoherent and unpersuasive arguments to defend their regressive economic policies. But usually these appeals at least focus on economics — the alleged job-creating alchemy of the ultrarich, the magical efficiency of the free market, and so on. In her contribution to Issue Fifteen, Becca Rothfeld shows that the MAGA movement has debuted a new line in defense of some planks of Trumponomics: it will send women back to the home, where they belong. Misogyny, Rothfeld argues, distorts “widespread dissatisfaction” with our current economic order into a punitive rage at women in the workforce.
Read Rothfeld’s Dispatch online today.
A Bureaucratic and Feminine Mind | The Right’s Misogyny Politics
BECCA ROTHFELD
The vitriol directed at women is a matter of misplaced hatred for bullshit jobs in general, for the glut of unfulfilling work that both women and men must undertake to pay their bills, for a cultural configuration that feels devoid of purpose and compassion and that accords us almost no agency over the conditions of our lives.
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It's not just a bunch of guys here- anybody seen how many women have climbed aboard the GOP Deathstar lately? And the main Moron problem we've got is right smack in the US electorate: after all, the two requirements for MAGA membership are to believe everything Donald Trump tells you, and when he slaps you, you'll take it and like it. Only a matter of time
before the Canadians have to start building a wall...