New York Magazine stepped on a rake with a sexist cover story that unleashed the wrath of “Republican women.”
In what seemed like confirmation that the left hates women – especially strong women who can think for themselves, the magazine touted the latest piece to grace its cover by writer-at-large Rebecca Traister.
Titled, “How Did Republican Women End Up Like This? ” the article claimed to look at “The baffling, contradictory demands of being female in the party of Donald Trump.”
And in a post on X to promote the story, the magazine noted the author “reports on the surprising evolution of the Republican woman — their wrath, sweetness, strength, and subservience to the MAGA right, observed.”
For our latest cover story, @rtraister reports on the surprising evolution of the Republican woman — their wrath, sweetness, strength, and subservience to the MAGA right, observed. https://t.co/QQCvJPVQSh pic.twitter.com/BNzvq7CjZo
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) June 17, 2024
If social media users thought the post was meant as purely click-bait, they would find that Traister attempts to find how the GOP “understands — and represents — womanhood more broadly.”
“As we cruise toward November with two ancient white men on the presidential ticket and the rights of millions of people who are not white men in the balance, the public performance of Republican womanhood has become fractured, frenzied, and far less coherent than ever,” she wrote.
The author claimed Republican women are caught “projecting traditional notions of compliant, cheerful femininity and channeling the testosterone-driven rage of the conservative infotainment complex,” while she followed the left’s playbook of boosting women by insulting those who think differently.
Traister trashed Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and her “duck-lipped, smoky-eyed stylings” as well as mocking RNC co-chair Lara Trump’s video and her “sequined pants and stilettos.” In contrast to her history lesson on Republican women, the author claims today’s “women on the left conduct themselves with new ease and assuredness” whereas the GOP’s “most visible” women offer “fevered performances of hyperfemininity and hypermasculinity.”
Her lengthy diatribe and the way New York Magazine chose to broadcast it earned a fiery and smoking rebuke from women, and men, on social media.
Why do you hate women?
— Matthew Marsden (@matthewdmarsden) June 18, 2024
Do you know any Republican women? I mean in your family or circles of friends? Because it seems like you are lazy and narrow-minded enough to form strong opinions about all of us based on a few politicians and media personalities.
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) June 18, 2024
I haven’t read the story, but I find the headline so offensive and dripping with condescension, I’ll vote Trump as a protest to their internalized misogyny.
— Just A (@TheycallmejustA) June 18, 2024
This is the most sexist cover I’ve ever seen. Liberal feminism is just most virulent misogyny.
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) June 18, 2024
Their next cover should be on the AWFULs
Affluent
White
Female
Urban
Leftists.— Mr. Peabody (@mrpeabody) June 18, 2024
No one hates women more than feminists do
— Delco PA Crossing Guard (@MakeWokeGoAway) June 18, 2024
Don’t forget the teacher in Canada pic.twitter.com/NT7ydihx6U
— jacquisartist101 (@jacquisart101) June 18, 2024
This is utterly ridiculous. I’m a republican woman and I am not remotely confused. You just took us back 2 decades. This is the most misogynistic article I’ve seen in recent history.
— Truthful Sally (@truthful2afault) June 17, 2024
Congrats on your “Chicks Without Dicks” issue.
— Five Times August (@FiveTimesAugust) June 18, 2024
Tell me you don’t know any Republican women without saying it.
— American Made (@Brain_Pwr) June 18, 2024
Another lazy article full of misogynistic stereotypes to smear a group of women for failing to accept the author’s preferred ideology…
— TweetyBurg (@nivratsmom) June 18, 2024
I can’t wait to read this! I hope you do a follow-up story on the evolution of the Democrat Woman® as well-their sweetness, their upper body strength, their bone structure, their five o’clock shadows! Keep up the good work!
Democrat Woman ®: pic.twitter.com/8xau65pyak
— ℙ (@DaxophoneSolo) June 18, 2024
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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