“Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society”. A cheeky quote from the late Rush Limbaugh that easily applies to the hysterical (in more than one way) article in The Guardian warning everyone about the dangerous rise of thin, fertile, Republican women.

A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldview. (snip)

Now, there are the beginnings of an organized effort to create a similar alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female US audiences – one of the few demographics that has, until now, leaned substantially Democratic.

This new “womanosphere” includes Cooper’s channel as well as lifestyle magazines like the Conservateur and Evie, Candace Owens’s Club Candace, Alex Clark’s Maha (“Make America Healthy Again”) talkshow Culture Apothecary, conservative Christian influencer Allie Beth Stuckey’s Relatable, and swimmer turned anti-transgender activist Riley Gaines’s podcast Gaines For Girls. Draw the circle a bit wider and you get the “tradwives” posting homemaking content on Instagram, the edgelord It Girls of Red Scare, and “femcel” influencers positioning themselves as the female answer to Tate.

While the women behind these outlets all have different styles and tactics, they are mostly aligned in their desire to return to a gender-essentialist worldview: women as submissive homemakers, men as strong providers.

Ah! The usual strawman argument from the Left — a woman who dissents one iota from the template of full-time careerism or makes a joint decision with her husband to take a few years off to have babies and raise them herself is nothing more than a Stepford wife.

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That’s not the only risible political point among many that runs rampant through this Leftwing screed. It’s also that it’s so blatant in its hatred of anything outside the Leftcult and refusal to consider any non-cult view as legitimate. Not one line from writer Anna Silman (of New York City — cue my shocked face) grants any agency to conservative women that their desires or their values and principles are consciously chosen and sincerely held.

Maggie Bullock, a women’s magazine veteran who co-writes the Spread, a newsletter about the industry, said she saw outlets like Evie as trying to be something of a “gateway drug” into more extreme conservative ideologies. (snip)

While quitting one’s corporate job to bake pies, milk cows and raise beautiful babies while wearing flowing nap-dresses may look like an appealing form of escapism, Bullock said this lifestyle propaganda was serving a much more sweeping and nefarious conservative agenda.

“Gateway drug.” “Nefarious … agenda”.

Oooooo … nefarious women with normal BMI, kids, and happy, daring to exist and talk about it! Quelle horrors!

From Phyllis Schlafly in the 1970s, who helped mobilize young Christian women against the Equal Rights Amendment, to Ann Coulter and Moms for Liberty, women have long played a role in spreading conservative propaganda.

Oh, bar the door, Katie! Silman reaches back to the 70s to run Schlafly’s corpse up the flagpole to scare every Politically Correct non-man within shouting distance. Yet, unironically, she uses a far-left feminist propaganda phrase gender-essentialism that tracks back to the Simone “no one is born a woman” de Beauvoir era as the Left propagandized the idea of humans being born as blank-slates. What do you mean you want to stay home and breastfeed your newborn? YOU IGNORANT COW!

Silman’s drivel is also dishonest in how it lumps together a disparate group of women under the “womanosphere” label.

If you know anything about anything, you know that those people are WILDLY different. Allie Beth Stuckey covers culture and politics from a Reformed Christian perspective. (snip)

Meanwhile, Candace Owens is a firebrand political commentator who became famous for leaving liberal politics and is now famous for joining antisemitic politics.

These two people are not the same and do not have the same audience or beliefs … yet the Guardian lumps in this diverse set under one hostile label.

Consider how they frame Riley Gaines as an “anti-transgender activist” instead of a “woman’s sports advocate.” It tells you exactly how much of a bias the “journalists” at The Guardian have.

What is the alternative, @guardiannews? You want women to all be fat, medicated democrats?

— Alex Clark (@yoalexrapz) April 24, 2025

We’ve been here with The Guardian before. Not just the demonization of everyone non-left, but its hostility to motherhood itself.

Men and women aren’t the same. And that’s one of the beautiful things about the human race.

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