The Childless Cat Ladies
Comments from 2021, in which JD Vance dismissed Kamala Harris as a “childless cat lady”
Like felines to catnip, liberal Twitter users pounced on J.D. Vance, the author turned Ohio U.S. Senate hopeful, when he suggested on Fox News last week that "childless cat ladies" now run the country, preventing it from having a "healthy ruling class."
"We are effectively run in the country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too," Mr. Vance told Fox News host Tucker Carlson
Mr. Vance, a Yale Law School‑educated venture capitalist, directed his dig specifically at Vice President Kamala Harris, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, favorite targets of the right.
Successful Childless Ladies in politics-- ? The best known example is Angela Merkel:
For most of her time in office as Chancellor, Merkel was internationally regarded as the de facto leader of the European Union and the most powerful woman in the world.
However, being childless is no condition (or guarantee…) for success in politics. Women with children can be powerful, too. For instance Maggie Thatcher (2 kids) or Ursula von der Leyen (7 kids).
Kamala Harris, as a candidate for the US presidency, will be targeted by a deluge of misogynic slander described by Carole Cadwalladr: This is a misogyny emergency. A huge outpouring is coming in the runup to the US election.
Misogynic traditions deeply embedded in American society will be amplified by massively funded Russian troll work sounding the misogynic tune to help Trump return to the White House with arguments such as...
...without practical knowledge gained while raising children, women without such experience will not understand the needs and problems of families with children. A further elaboration of this argument is a stereotype that childless women are not concerned about the future of the nation (8 comments): Childless politicians do not care about the country’s future; they do not care what kind of world they will leave for children and grandchildren. After all, these are not their children. On the contrary, childless people even tend to make things worse.
I want to remind each self-important woman that on this cosmic dust, called the Earth, your duty is the only one – to give birth to offspring. Everything else is the manifestation of your egocentrism that is interesting only to yourself.
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