Why is JD Vance so obsessed with menstruation?

[AkFemDem]

I'm not even trying to be snarky when I say IT'S WEIRD the way this guy is so obsessed with periods!!

Whether it's trying to monitor bleeding in an attempt to ascertain if women are terminating pregnancies https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/jd-vance-menstrual-surveillance-hawk or this strange fixation on Gov. Walz having MN install period product machines in school bathrooms, Vance (and Trump by proxy) seems unusually interested in (and confused by) the menstrual cycle.

This isn't normal. Normal people do not obsess over this!

[Coexist]

1. its' SOOOO weird

[rzemanfl]

2. He is asking for the couch. n/t

[GreenWave]

3. There were "ketchup" stains on his love couch. Right, Donnie?

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

15. I -guess- you could use catsup as a lubricant

[BComplex]

4. Republicans are so creepy.

And they love to fear what they worship: sex, women's bodies, God, Satan, Trump, life itself. Sheesh!

[AkFemDem]

5. "Menophilia" is apparently actually a thing-

I really don’t want to read up on this beyond the brief description 😳 but apparently this is a thing.

[Hugin]

6. If Hannibal Lector were real...

( where did Trump get the idea he’s late? never mind. )

He would ask you, “What do men like Shady Valance seek?”

The answer, of course, is CONTROL. Ultimate control.

[hatrack]

7. Because if you bleed but don't die, you're obviously Satanic . . .

I mean, that sounds like a reasonable take on how MAGA members view the process, and if it's good enough for them, it's good enough for him.

[CrispyQ]

8. I was in high school when Alice Cooper released "Only Women Bleed."

The boys lost it. Also they never read the lyrics. They started keeping track of when girls would use a hall pass to go to the bathroom & speculate who was on their periods. The girls found out about this & we all started using the hall pass. A few teachers noticed the increase in the use of the hall pass & it all came out & the boys had a special session with the some male school administrators & teachers where they were told to grow up.

[surfered]

9. Creepy!

[2naSalit]

10. I think...

It's a mental disorder in men who just want to punish women for having power they lack, reproduction, can't happen without us and, therefore, the need to punish us for having a power they can't have or control. Some men are afraid of the power of women to bear humans, freaks them the hell out and since they can't completely control it, they have to control those of us who have it... period. (pun intended).

[MaryMagdaline]

11. Not a psychiatrist. But I think womb envy is a thing.

There are some men whose hatred for women is so intense that they are most furious that creation of life is in the control of women.
I’m not talking about a Bruce Jenner desire to be a woman. Desiring to be a woman is legit (and actually, quite complimentary). Trying to control a woman is f’g horrifying.

[Skittles]

20. it has long been a theory of mine

NOTHING men accomplish beats the ability to be able to grow and deliver a human being

most men accept this; others try to take control of it

[Trueblue1968]

12. Vance is a vampire .....

[DBoon]

30. like his mentor and financier Peter Thiel

...Given Thiel’s obsession with warding off death, it comes as no surprise that the Silicon Valley billionaire is interested in at least one radical way of doing it: injecting himself with a young person’s blood. On Monday, Jeff Bercovici of Inc. magazine published part of a year-old interview with Thiel, in which the venture-capitalist explains that he’s interested in parabiosis, which includes the practice of getting transfusions of blood from a younger person, as a means of improving health and potentially reversing aging.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood

[progressoid]

13. I heard Mark Levin call Governor Walz, "Tampon Tim"

I'm sure he thought he was being clever or something but it seemed pathetic and desperate.

[Skittles]

21. REAL men are not threatened by women or feminine hygiene products

NOPE

[progressoid]

23. As a husband and father of daughters I have

gladly made trips to the store to replenish the bathroom cabinets with supplies for them. No big deal.

The belittling of women by these men is infuriating to say the least. And I'm a guy. I can't imagine how this feels for women.

[Skittles]

24. there you go

it always amazes me when grown men get antsy about such stuff, GROW UP ALREADY! And yes, misogyny is real and something us gals deal with all our lives.....we have true spidey sense for the bad ones, we call them CREEPS which is *THE* worst thing a woman can call a man - (Trump and Vance are BOTH CREEPS)

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

14. Because couches don't have periods ...nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. You are safe, Mr. Vance. Eye liner doesn't cause menstruation. . . . nt

[Martin68]

17. It is characteristic of misogynists to be frightened by menstruation, a fear that has been with us for a very

long time. Judaism and Islam, as well as Orthodox Christians, consider a woman to be unclean and dangerous during menstruation, as do many traditional societies.

[Elessar Zappa]

31. Most Jews don't believe that.

The orthodox do, I suppose, but not Conservative or Reformed.

[Martin68]

34. I'm referring to a very long history. I am aware that most Jews today no longer share these beliefs.

[Seinan Sensei]

18. Shady JD should set an example

And make-public Usha Vance‘a menstrual cycle.
Y’know, kinda like politicians make-public their tax returns

[Iggo]

22. Because the people who'll vote for him are.

They’re not even trying to get new voters anymore. They’re just trying to stop the bleeding.

So to speak.

[Skittles]

25. yup

I imagine right now the power behind Project 2025 is hard at work on massive voter suppression / vote manipulation efforts.

[Dave Bowman]

26. He should stick with couches and dolphins.

[Klarkashton]

27. These guys are absolutely batshit.

[keithbvadu2]

28. Control of women.

[The Roux Comes First]

29. After Spending All That Money on Tutoring to Get Introduced to the Basics and Vocabulary

He's obligated to spew.

Like an eighth-grader after sex ed.

[AnnaLee]

32. I think this is appropriate to this thread.

Have any of you read "Clan of the Cave Bears" by Ursula Le Guin? She places human culture of today into the context of the early evolution of woman and minority placement in the group. It's fiction, of course, but I couldn't miss the unstated analogies to modern times, especially within religious groups.

[Srkdqltr]

33. I think it is a simple obsession with sex.