MAGA's Misogyny
5/26/202621 min
You may have noticed that misogyny seems to be everywhere right now, especially online. As American women continue to move further to the political left, men on the American Right appear to have responded by losing their minds completely. Helen Lewis, a staff writer for the Atlantic, coined a term for these kinds of people. She calls them "masculinists." And she argues that "masculinism" has become a bonding agent for the American right wing that can paper over other divides. Helen joins the show to discuss her article, "The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet."
And in headlines, what we do and don't know about Trump's alleged Iran deal, Tulsi Gabbard resigns as National Intelligence Director, and Pro-Palestine Activist Mahmoud Khalil takes his deportation case to the Supreme Court.
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First 90 secondsJane Coaston· Host0:00
[upbeat music] It's Tuesday, May 26th. I'm Jane Coaston, and this is What Today?, a show that is not whimsy maxing. Partly because I don't know what that would require me to do, partly because I do not want to. [upbeat music] On today's show, a lot happened over the holiday weekend. We'll tell you what we do and don't know about President Donald Trump's alleged Iran deal. And Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard resigns. But let's start with misogyny. You may have noticed that misogyny is kind of everywhere right now, especially online. As American women continue to move further to the political left while gaining economic and cultural independence, men on the American right appear to have responded by losing their minds completely. For example, this is Doug Wilson. He's a pastor in Moscow, Idaho, with close ties to Secretary of Defense/little boy Pete Hegseth. Hegseth even invited him to lead a Pentagon worship service back in February, and boy, does Doug Wilson have a lot of fun views on the role of women in the world. Here he is speaking to CNN's Pamela Brown last summer.
Doug Wilson· Soundbite1:05
What role do you think women play in society? Um, women are the kind of people that people come out of. So you just think- Well- ... they're meant to have babies? [laughs] Well- That's it. They're just a vessel. No, it, it doesn't take any talent to simply reproduce biologically. The wife and mother, who is the chief executive of the home, is entrusted with three or four or five eternal souls.
Jane Coaston· Host1:29
In other words,