TN GOP: Let’s Bring Back Child Brides, Axe Gay Marriage
Barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen makes comeback
Women should be barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen
When I was growing up, many people said that only half in jest. Conservatives labeled women who worked outside the home, who pursued college and advanced degrees, who insisted on the right to control their own bodies and end unwanted pregnancies, as uppity social traitors who should get back in their place.
Men said things like, “Make me a sandwich” openly, to put women in their place.
In those days, we liberals cracked on the “rednecks” who valued the subservience of women. We fought, among other things, to stop underage marriages that often saw teenage girls subjected to abuse and domination by much older husbands. Think that’s a thing of the past that can’t return? Keep reading.
Who would have thought overt sexism would roar back?
If anyone had suggested to me back in the 1980s that redneck misogyny would resurge rather than fade away, I would have snorted in disbelief. But here we are. As Moira Donegan wrote this morning in the The Guardian, “We are witnessing the final days of reproductive freedom in America.”…
