Could the GOP Address Misogyny In Its Ranks?

Here's a news flash. A political party can't win if it runs against 51% of voters - that's the percentage of the U.S. population that is female.

The following is currently circulating on social media:

"We are effectively run in this country... by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too" - J.D. Vance.

It matters not that this comment was made in 2021, when Vance was running for the U.S. Senate in Ohio.

It matters not that Vance, who was recently named Donald Trump’s running mate, was trying to say that people without children, such as VP Kamala Harris, have less stake in the future of America. (Note: This obviously is not true).

What matters is that many voters are looking for an alternative to the Democratic Party, which has failed to protect the border and foisted hugely unpopular policies on an unsuspecting public. Vance’s clueless, unnecessary slur makes the GOP appear to be hostile to educated, intelligent women who vote, not to mention the 37 million cat owners in the U.S.

“I am #childlescatlady adjacent. JD, you just f**ked with a force larger than yourself. Prepare.” - Rosemary G. Feal, Resident Scholar, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Harvard. Executive director emerita, Modern Language Association.

Yes, Democrats have started a #childlesscatlady thread on X (formerly Twitter) where Vance’s comment is being ruthlessly mocked.

Searching For An Alternative

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