Would Josh Hawley Call a 10-Year-Old a Woman?

[Nevilledog]

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Earlier this week, during a Senate committee hearing on the impact of Roe v. Wade being overturned, Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley interrupted UC Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges after she used the phrase “people with the capacity for pregnancy.”

“You refer to ‘people with the capacity for pregnancy,” Hawley droned, shit-eating grin spreading across his face. “Would that be ‘women’?”

Bridges snapped back—to paraphrase—that not all women can become pregnant, and that Hawley’s language erased people who can become pregnant who are trans and non-binary.

Hawley was clearly satisfied that he’d gotten to add his contribution to the transphobic “What is a woman?” memosphere. The question has become a right-wing culture war rallying cry that aims to present inclusive language around gender and pregnancy as somehow an existential threat to “women” as a category of human beings, language that has found its way from MAGA-drenched Facebook cesspools.

Just as Hawley was marinating in his own karmic ooze, the same right-wing media apparatus that lambasts phrasing like “pregnant people” was questioning the validity of a truly horrible story out of Indiana.

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[JoeOtterbein]

1. K n R ! Thanks for posting! nt

[SWBTATTReg]

2. josh 'Jaws' hawley is a sick person, and a disgusting example of what Missourians are really like.

As a long-time Missourian, I'm disgusted by him on a daily basis, and it figures that someone like his type isn't from one of the bigger cities in MO, he came from a more rural environment in Missouri, where they grow up w/ spoon fed nonsense on a daily basis. I know that this is true (the nonsense) being that I grew up in rural parts of MO all over the state.

What's also disgusting is they (repugs in MO) have rigged the district maps so they can have an inordinate number of congressional seats in the state and/or federal congresses. This is not a true representation of MO voters and I continue to hope that these are redrawn eventually.

[GoodRaisin]

3. What does it say about our country that the people elect

people like Hawley to represent them?