Do Republican women really not see how very anti-women their party is?

[RiverStone]

Not just women of course, I'd like to think that RepubliCON men would get this too. But tossing aside the neanderthal male wingnuts for a second, how can Repub woman in particular be content with the Teabaggers fucking with their reproductive freedom, access for preventative health care and screening for their daughters and mothers, and services (like birth control education) set up to help PREVENT over half a million unintended pregnancies each year?

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/planned-parenthood-glance-5552.htm

How can these women either quietly standby or actively stand next to the Speaker of the House while he and his backwards colleagues literally rip personal freedom from the bodies of women and smile about it? :mad:


On Edit: I have a daughter in her 20's who is asking me how this can happen. What would you say?

[RandySF]

1. Some of them are as anti-woman as the males.

[Johonny]

11. if you are raised that way

then you really don't see yourself as anti-women. You just see yourself as normal and accepting societal norms. It's the same reason many people raised in cults don't seem to get how horrible they are treated. To them they are normal and you're the crazy freak. Many people clearly have a hard time evaluating themselves and their society objectively.

[fishwax]

24. sad but true n/t

[roguevalley]

26. they are as self loathing as log cabin repubs. but its okay. I hate

them just as much too.

[livetohike]

2. The Stepford Wives

and that is my only explanation.

[catgirl]

3. The repug women senators voted against equal pay

Perhaps the voters don't bother to look at any votes...

[ixion]

4. Self-loathing and poor Self-image is how it happens

in my opinion.

[RiverStone]

23. A quick read of the thread repeats your opinion...

...several times.

Some attribute it to being raised by equally (hostile) to women parents.

In many ways, this makes sense.

If you are battered or brainwashed into thinking you have little self worth - you become a Rethug woman (or man) that gives praise to the abuser; or become a Tea party fanatic.

[WinkyDink]

5. Money trumps..... everything to a Republican.

[Wilms]

6. They'll answer that question after they check with their husband. n/t

[October]

9. lol. /nt

[Blaukraut]

7. Selfishness.

They cannot relate to anything that doesn't directly affect them. Most elected republican women are either wealthy enough not to have to concern themselves with having to pay for reproductive health care, or they are past reproductive age, or both. Just mho.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. There are many women who are anti-women.

There always have been. Remember suffrage, there were many women who did not believe women should vote. Abortion, many women against it. Women's Liberation, Equal Wages, Female priests, again. Get the picture. Some women hate women.

[MineralMan]

10. Have you never met a woman

who was rabidly anti-abortion and anti-contraception. There are many of them, and that's all about PP that matters to them.

Don't be surprised.

[LisaM]

12. It's been out in the open for years but people refuse to see it.

When Rush Limbaugh uses a term like FemiNazi and everyone laughs, well, it pretty much tells the whole story. You can attack feminists and no one will do anything. Because, you know, it's only ugly and bitter women who would be feminists (remember the pictures posted here of Hillary looking wrinkled?)

In the meantime, women's rights have been chiselled at for decades - ever since Roe v. Wade. And here the barbarians are, knocking at our very door, ready to get rid of Planned Parenthood and anything else that deals with women's healthcare issues - and people suddenly notice.

People should have noticed a long time ago. I have women friends in their 20s who have no idea what went on in the 1970s.

Don't forget, the ERA never did pass.

[Drale]

13. When you brainwash your children from birth

that the womens place in the the kitchen, its not hard to believe at all.

[LiberalEsto]

14. My theory is that hairspray destroys their brains

and turns them into zombies

[whathehell]

16. Hey....I used hairspray back in the day

but maybe the effect wears off after a few decades.:evilgrin:

[whathehell]

15. I get the bewilderment, but there are Gay "Log Cabin" Republicans too..

I tend to think it's a mixture of self-loathing

and caring first and foremost about money.

Just my opinion.:shrug:

[rzemanfl]

17. How many thousand women in Wisconsin voted for a man

who called a seventy-seven year-old woman Chief Justice a "bitch" and admitted it? If it weren't for how upset people here get I'd call them stupid c**ts.

[northernlights]

18. because they are also anti-women

Except for the bigmouths we hear from every day, they are owned and controlled by their husbands and sons. They hate the rest of us for our freedoms.

[MadMaddie]

19. The Republican women in WA stood in front of the camaras

today and did not defend womens healthcare. They are going with this is about budget cuts. These women are a travesity and they have sold their souls to the devil. They do not defend the weakest among us.....

[seabeyond]

20. they do not believe in feminism. they believe the whole feminism has created every evil today

i don't know how they work this in their mind. i know they put male head of family. i have never been able to intellectually reconcile that. human/human.

they buy into everyone of those patriarchal stories told of the differences in the gender even when cold hard fact, and their own personal lives shows them otherwise.

as many many do.

you know

the societal and cultural conditioning so many of us swear by.

[blm]

21. Yes, then their husbands promise them a facelift (mistresses get boob jobs) and they forget to care

about anything else. Republicans are wired to be selfish, uncaring posers.

[sufrommich]

22. Tell your daughter that women are just like men and are all over

the political spectrum. Men also vote against their own interests.

[cally]

25. Well, I tell my daughter to get active and see this as a wake up call

I think many women are afraid to be supportive of their rights and don't want to be seen as feminists. I think because it is seen as anti-male and not attractive to men. It is more important to them to attract men and keep relationships going on the man's terms then to think about other women. Many see other women as competition for men. They only concern themselves with access too health care when they need it and are outraged when others haven't provided for them.