Elissa Hewins

I dont want to live how they lived during the Depression, and I dont feel bad about that. My ancestors didnt work and sacrifice so that I'd wind up in their same situation.

@MegEBrock Agree. The right is definitely going to lose more and more women if they attack them for....providing for their family.

Continuing to push messages that disparage working women is a great way to ensure there will be more outcomes like what happened in Virginia this week. Suburban women really love hearing they are harming society by working to provide for their families (that’s sarcasm).

Entirely blaming working women - who adamantly reject the pejorative "girlboss" label - for the fertility crisis is getting really old. I've worked in the conservative movement my entire career and never met a woman who works who hasn't desired marriage and family...

As someone who has never wanted kids and was iffy on marriage I find this narrative hilarious - because let me tell you I was pelted with counter-narratives, constantly pressured to change my stance, and fear-mongered into oblivion by conservatives and christians on this front. The idea there's some organized opps on this front with coordinated messaging is RIDICULOUS.

Every time a “Christian nationalist” or a groyper opens their mouth a republican loses an election! Democrats view these people as EXISTENTIAL threats! And they will vote for anything that is framed as stopping these bastards! I really don’t think conservatives understand how much harm these demons are causing! Christian nationalists & groypers don’t care about the US. They care about giving themselves emotional catharsis by spreading hate and making money off those willing to pay for it. Thankfully, President Trump understands this, but unless the greater GOP does too they are going to ensure Republicans continue to lose, and Democrats can undo all the progress Trump has made. 😡😡😡

“I want a soft, feminine, traditional woman” SHUT UP. What you actually want is someone who COOKS, CLEANS, stays ATTRACTIVE for you, and revolves her LIFE around your needs. That’s not about softness, nurturing, or femininity... it’s about CONTROL and CONVENIENCE. You don’t want a PARTNER. You want someone who gives EVERYTHING and asks for NOTHING in return. You want a SERVICE.

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if you say a number loud enough its value increases 5 = 5 5! = 120

Almost every Democrat I know tells me they HATE progressivism (polls reflect this as well) but they can’t vote GOP for one primary reason: Racism/sexism & hate It doesn’t matter if this perception is entirely accurate. It’s the reality of half of America. And as long as we have even one “right winger” with any sense of notoriety spewing hate-this just reinforces their belief. While this may seem irrational, it is quite logical actually. No sane person is going to vote for a party that openly hates them. Furthermore, no viable political party allows their image to be smeared by a tiny extremely unpopular minority. I can’t emphasis this enough, but it is vitally important for the GOP to shed the image that Republicans hate women, religious and racial minorities! Otherwise, once Democrats get back into office, they’re going to undo everything Trump has done and flood the country yet again with violent criminals & we will be powerless to stop it. All because some overly emotional aholes wanna make money selling rage to dropouts. 🤦‍♀️ It’s NOT worth it, guys!

Actually it was mass industrialisation & it didn’t ruin it as much as it has made life much easier for countless women, freeing up their time and energy. The fact this woman is able to cosplay as a 50s housewife & make her own money off of it is thanks to feminism!

@KevyWeby @yacineMTB My (now adult) kids were in daycare. They took the kids outside, had friends, taught them many things. We had time together every day to continue teaching our values & discuss what they learned. After a few months, they were not strangers anymore. I still keep in touch with them.

There is value in sending kids to daycare. They are likely to get potty trained earlier & learn rules & corporation better. It’s simply a fact REGARDLESS of how you parent, kids act differently around family vs everyone else. They’re generally better behaved around others. So while it’s good to spend time with them when they’re young, there’s tremendous value in going to a GOOD daycare. The biggest issue is the cost.

“The girlboss is getting married later than ever, but she’s getting married... Women in their early 40s with a bachelor’s degree are now 10 percentage points more likely to have ever married than those without—and that gap is growing.” thefp.com/p/dont-blame-t…

I think the right also severely underestimates the antisemitism, sexism & racism being pushed by “Christian nationalists”, groypers & other influencers! If you talk to Democrats, they view these people as existential threats! Most of the Democrats I know are very clear that they don’t agree with progressivism. But they view these people as so dangerous they have no choice, but to vote for progressive Democrats the lesser of the two evils. It seems the president understands this. But if the greater GOP cannot understand the influence these people are having they are going to continue to lose elections! It’s a much bigger problem than people are willing to admit!

I'm a straight, married, lifelong pro-life conservative evangelical Christian who recently had a daughter though IVF and surrogacy (our full genetic child, carried by a wonderful Christian woman who we found through an expressly pro-life Christian surrogacy agency) after my wife and I suffered through infertility for 5 years and had had 4 failed IVF transfers of our own. It's been such a bizarre week for me on right wing Twitter. On the one hand you have the debate over the video game Pragmata, which conservatives are praising for cultivating the good and holy desire to have children and righty calling out wacko liberal feminists who think children are an inconvenience and insinuate that any man who wants children must be a pedophile. On the other you have conservative commentators like Matt Walsh (who I agree with on 99% of other issues including opposing gay marriage) saying that IVF and surrogacy are evil and that my daughter should never have been born. Conservative (especially Catholic) rhetoric about children and fertility is all over the map. Apparently it's good and right to want children, but don't you dare want children so much that when biology denies them to you, you use the wonders of modern medicine and the generosity of a woman willing to carry your already existing embryo that has no other chance at life, to bring a precious new child into this world. Children are a blessing without which life is incomplete, and if you never have children you are left to die alone and unfulfilled with no legacy and nothing to show for your life. But don't you dare resort to methods that are "against nature" or "commodify life" (as if the entire for-profit medical system doesn't do exactly that) in order to have children, because that's just adults being selfish and no one has a right to have children. If you're unlucky enough to be afflicted with infertility, you should just acknowledge that God has doomed you to never have children and accept your fate, or else adopt and settle for raising someone else's child that they couldn't be bothered to raise themselves. Nevermind that by their own reasoning adoption, much more so than surrogacy, separates children from their mother and commodifies them as property with title transferred by the state. Somehow adoption, in which women give up their children often solely for their own convenience, is perfectly fine, but a married couple having someone else voluntarily carry their own genetic child for 9 months when they are unable to, in order to give that embryo a chance to live and be raised by her own genetic parents, is an abomination. None of this makes sense. I wish more conservatives would actually think through some of these issues and realize that there is a lot more moral nuance around fertility and assisted reproduction than most people think. Are IVF and surrogacy sometimes abused and used for immoral purposes? Yes. I for one would agree that homosexual couples, whose very union contravenes both moral and natural law, should not be allowed to use these tools to have children. But the fact that certain uses of IVF and surrogacy are immoral doesn't make them immoral for everyone. Real life moral decisions in this area are much more complex than black and white absolutism can account for.

To clarify this (typo-ed) point: Most women and men do not marry the person they are dating at 21 not because they're in pursuit of a career but because *they don't want to marry the person they're dating at 21.* People tend to put off marriage because they're looking for greater compatibility / love / etc, and also because they're looking for greater maturity from both themselves and their partners. The people who find the right person when they're 21 tend to marry them! Most of us don't.

@jahermeiliger @GambelerQuail Working on a quarter million dollar project, being in charge of procurement, etc and being compensated for it is make work daycare but milling flour in your kitchen which they didn’t even do after like 1870 isn’t lmao

@jahermeiliger Yeah it’s pretty ironic lol. They don’t really appreciate homemakers they just have a really dumb theory of family economics where men would just get paid extra income if women didn’t work.