When wingnut cavemen attack: The right turns on Renee Ellmers with stunning misogyny (Salon)

[inanna]

Friday, Jan 23, 2015 01:17 PM EST

Hell hath no fury, apparently, like a male conservative who feels betrayed when a GOP woman disagrees with him



I never thought I’d be spurred to defend GOP Rep. Renee Ellmers, but the misogyny coming from the right, in the wake of her helping torpedo the 20-week abortion ban, is appalling.

The boys over at Red State are leading the charge, with sexually insecure sad sack Erick Erickson calling her “the GOP’s Abortion Barbie” (his sick nickname for Wendy Davis) and now another Red Stater, Aaron Gardner, asking “Is Renee Ellmers worthy of life?”

In a country where abortion providers have been murdered and clinics bombed, that’s a particularly ugly provocation.

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To be fair, plenty of conservative women have also criticized Ellmers, but not with the sexist savagery of their male counterparts.

It’s fascinating to me: right-wingers love their Mama Grizzlies, tough gals like Palin and Sen. Joni Ernst to name two, as long as they stay in line. But when they stray from wingnut orthodoxy, they can expect the same abuse female Democrats get. I’ve been looking around to see if any conservative women have stood up for Ellmers, in the face of RedState’s ugly assault, but I haven’t found any. I will surely update this post if I do.

Link: http://www.salon.com/2015/01/23/when_wingnut_cavemen_attack_the_right_turns_on_renee_ellmers_with_stunning_misogyny/

[BrotherIvan]

1. It's because they HATE women

They will put up with a few tokens so they can't be called outright misogynists, but make no mistake, they hate them. Just like they hate any non-white Republican.

These are the incoming Reps for 2010. Notice anything? THEY. HATE. YOU.

[blkmusclmachine]

21. I don't feel sorry for Repuke women. Live by the GOP sword, die by the GOP sword...

[BrotherIvan]

22. The problem is that GOP sword is aimed at US

If you're so brainwashed you can't see how much they hate you fine. But those women give them cover and help them to oppress others. They are such hypocrites, they will violate their own "morals" as was the case with Santorum's wife. But they will do their damnedest to make sure other women die. Fuck them to hell.

[maindawg]

2. I think there are like 24 new women congress people

most are repukes. I was thinking the other day that this is the result of the massive gerrymandering that the repukes did. Politics is funny.It can bite you in the ass in a new weird way every oter day. These new repuke womens will mostly be a little more progressive than the radical knuckle draging party bosses prefer.
This will further split the party hopefully causing the ultimate end of the repuke party to be hastened. Soon they will spit it two.

[ashling]

20. Let it be

But I have lost count of all the times that the ultimate death of the GOP has been foretold on DU ... sometimes I even believed it ... anyway it was a nice dream ...

everytime they get so low and so caught up in their own vitriol that it seems they will implode in one
giant sleezy and sulphurious fireball of doom ... damn horcruxes (obligatory Harry Potter reference)

[TNNurse]

3. If Republican women do not stand with her

At least her right to have her own opinion, they are not just going to hurt themselves. They are hurting humanity.

[blackspade]

4. Wow.

[CrispyQ]

5. Aaron Gardner, asking “Is Renee Ellmers worthy of life?”

That is so vile.

If a dem ever said that about any woman it would be played on the liberal media 24x7.

[snort]

6. They're just pulling the old look

how christ-y we are, so they might get more stuff later. Gotta pad your future, just in case.

[mountain grammy]

7. Disgusting.

[AlbertCat]

8. but the misogyny coming from the right

Well, too bad, Deary.... you're female and you decided to play with the Repugs, so what did you expect? ...

...Acceptance????

[Tom Ripley]

9. ^^^THIS^^^

[corkhead]

10. separated at birth?

[bemildred]

11. That guy looks like he definitely needs to be slapped around a bit.

Verbally, of course.

He's got that cob-stuck-up-his ass look in his eye.

[TRoN33]

12. By looking into Erick Erickson's face made me...

[Jack Rabbit]

13. Let's get this straight: there are very few conservatives in the GOP nowadays

Anyone, including another woman (are you listening, Mrs. Schlafly?), who believes a woman is expected to oppose abortion in any and all circumstances without even an understanding of the issue from a woman's perspective and is otherwise perfectly all right with giving men the authority to tell women what to think or do is a misogynist.

The belief that such an arbitrary, unnatural hierarchy is mandated by either nature or something supernatural is by definition right wing. There are no kings, emperors, fascist leaders, slave masters or Übermenschen of any kind in this cosmos; those who claim there is a supernatural creator who made such beings and who is benevolently disposed to human beings believes in an oxymoron. Human beings are made partly as the aggressive, acquisitive beasts that Ayn Rand would have us believe we are, but also the social animal who reaches out to his fellows for love, companionship and a collective, cooperative effort toward a common goal that Ms. Rand would also deny that we are. The most primitive humans are free men and women who live in groups and hunt in packs. Consequently, objectivism is nonsense, society exists as an outgrowth of human nature and democracy is the outcome of the natural process of social decision making. There is no need for kings, emperors, priests, fascist leaders, slave masters or Übermenschen of any kind and that includes -- dare we say it? -- business leaders who think their judgment is better than that of any of us and outweighs the judgment of the rest of us put together.

No human is superior to another in any natural order. Rousseau said Man is born free, yet is everywhere in chains. Those chains, I maintain, are an illusion. As another great writer said, The fault, dear Brutus, is in ourselves, not in our stars, that we are underlings. The first act toward casting off our chains is to simply stop believing in them.

Women of America and the world, I cannot make you free; I merely inform you that you are free, as you probably already knew that you are free. Don't let these misogynists even think that they have any make-believe authority over you. Tell them loud and clear that they do not and that abortion is your right and has always been your right and will always be your right and no misogynist -- not Erick Erickson nor Ted Cruz nor Phyllis Schlafly -- can take it away from you.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

15. !

Righteous!



One thing that I'm thinking though....when you said, "women of the world, you are free....don't let these misogynists think they have any make believe authority over you"....

I thought, to enjoy that freedom, we have to act together in large, unified numbers.

Anyway, just thinking out loud.

[bemildred]

16. +1.

Tell it, Jack.

[daleanime]

14. Well duh.....

she's a woman and she disagreed with the party line.

[QuebecYank]

17. No woman, no cry!

You'll never see a woman become the leader of the GOP, nor will the misogynistic pigs put up with one as a Presidential candidate.
The men of the Right-wing parties cannot abide minorities. Makes no difference: gender, race, LGBT, handicapped, foreign religion...
Name anything about a person that makes them different from the majority of the paranoid and racist GOP/TEA PARTY members, and you can bet they'll hate it.

[tanyev]

18. Ms. Ellmers, meet reality.

[vlyons]

19. It's not so much that they hate women, but that

they are so filled with hatred for anything that challenges their egos. They fear women. Women are an easy target on which to spew their hatred. They are not much different than the taliban