Defectors say the movement has dropped the pretense of protecting women and is now openly “cruel and fickle.”

For women especially, contempt for feminist pieties, if deftly channeled, could be one’s ticket to stardom. And what had feminism done for them recently, except tell them to work harder and feel bad for wanting to be skinny? Or worse: trick them into waiting too long to have babies? Now, a growing group of right-wing women — both prominent personalities and loyal foot soldiers — are waking up to find their inclusion in the MAGA movement was contingent. Sexism wasn’t merely the price of entry; it was the theme of the party.

OMG why did the leopard ate my face moment right there. Well at least they “get it” now.

  • calliope@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Anna has requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation.

    I’d request anonymity because of how embarrassing this is. This woman has children. Imagine being her daughter and reading about how publicly cruel and petty your mother was… and she didn’t figure it out until recently.

    She did it not only because she just wanted the attention for being edgy, but because it was profitable.

    “I was in love with the frisson of transgression.” The online right had begun to engage more explicitly with forbidden subjects: nativism, race science, and gender essentialism drawn from evolutionary psychology. “There was an element of gnosticism to it,” she says, “the sense that you know secret things that other people don’t know.”

    These are adults who can vote, and this is what they care about. Feeling special.

    They assumed, she says, “because of how I presented myself” — as anti-feminist, as “based” and unbothered — “that I was not like the other girls.”

    Again, she had children at this point, and was cashing in on throwing women as a whole under the bus.

    “I’m somebody, dispositionally, who likes to have a good time,” she tells me. She found the humorlessness of the contemporary left more alienating than the conservatism of her youth.

    This is why the rest of us feel so much secondhand embarrassment for conservatives. Everyone can tell how pathetic they are; everything they do shows they haven’t matured since they were children.

    I can’t imagine being an adult and falling for the things she did, just because I loved and profited from the attention.

    • sculd@beehaw.orgOP
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      1 day ago

      A lot of us already knew or even told these people that they will be thrown away the second they are no longer useful to the right’s agenda.

      Unfortunately a lot of them still fall for it.

      What these women truly hate is not feminism, but the pressure brought by capitalism.

  • dumples@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    This was such a fascinating article to read. Part of me was like “duh girl they are using you” because of the long history of grifters and users in the alt right. But at the same time you can’t be a long-term grifter without being good.

    The madonna / whore complex makes so much sense. They get used to thinking they are special, exceptions and not like the other girls. They are the perfect madonna but cracks forms and they toss them for a new better model.

    • sculd@beehaw.orgOP
      2·
      1 day ago

      Yup, they are pretty stupid to think that they are that “special”. But at least they are waking up to the fact now.