Inside the Young Women's Leadership Summit, where Red America is pink https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/06/15/inside-conservative-confab-young-women-where-feminism-is-lie/

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"For the modern MAGA woman, happiness might mean being a ‘trad wife,’ fearing trans women and buying anti-woke tampons

The throngs of teen and 20-something women flowed into the ballroom of the Gaylord Texan hotel on a Friday night this month in a blur of shimmer and pink. ...
They were ready for their trip back to the 1970s — or to a certain anti-feminist version of the era, anyway.
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“In the ’70s, women were given all sorts of lies,” she continued. “They just told us, ‘Well, you can be a man.’ And I guess we’ve kind of accomplished that. But are we happier?”
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“What I’m here to tell you is, if you were to just go back to biblical roots in what God had designed for women to do, we will be happier,” she told them.

What does it mean to be young, female and conservative in America, 2023?

At the leadership summit, there were answers. It means posing for selfies in a mirror made to look like a magazine cover with a headline that reads, “Birth control is so last year.” It means having it all — but having kids and a husband before trying to get the rest. It means buying tampons and beauty products and other items from companies that market themselves as pro-Christian or anti-“woke.” It means embracing a particular kind of American nostalgia, one where women’s liberation means being free from the complexities of modern gender politics.

Perhaps most of all, it means seeing transgender women as a grave threat to womanhood.

“They ruin opportunities for women,” said Heaven Angel Martinez, a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio, who described the topic of being transgender as “absolutely” her top political issue.
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“This is a fight against cultural evils — against the erasure of women,” said Georgia Chapa, a student at Texas A&M University.
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“They’re really good at empowering women in the right way,” said Cheyanna Walker, a 20-something attendee from Tennessee. “You don’t have to be a feminist to be empowered. You can be feminine, and that’s empowering. Society puts so much pressure on us to be and do all of these things, but really, just being ourselves is really good, because that’s what we’re created for.”

In the exhibition hall, the young women were greeted with products that were created for feminine non-feminists. Like Garnuu, a brand that proudly declares that feminine products are for “Girls Only. Period.” Or Hope Beauty, which sells “biblically inspired cosmetics.” Or the Right Stuff, a dating app for women who want to filter out any men who might be — as Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk put it during a session on dating advice — “feminized versions of metrosexual culture.” Or Turning Point’s official merchandise, which includes a sweatshirt proclaiming ...that, “No 1 cares about your pronouns.”

“There ain’t nothing wrong with being a trad wife,” right-wing commentator Benny Johnson assured the attendees, using a term that refers to women who embrace a return to the traditional roles of homemaker and child-rearer.
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In another room, Hope Beauty’s founder demonstrated how to apply lip liner — but never too much. (“We’re not into the drag queen makeup here!” she said to laughter.)
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Reyn goes to an all-girls Catholic school, Rae Lynn said, but the environment is “all about ‘girl power’”: preparing for college and careers, “not so much, ‘Be a wife, be a mom, raise a good Catholic family.’” Here at the women’s summit, Reyn said she was learning a different order of operations for having it all: “Instead of having your career, then being a mother and a wife, at the top, it’s mother and wife, then career.” (Certain careers might be implausible. “You’re going to have to choose which one matters more,” Kirk told a medical student who asked him whether her dream of becoming a surgeon was compatible with finding a husband. “There are a lot of successful 35-year-old orthopedic surgeons that have cats and not kids, and they’re very miserable.”)

Like a lot of women here, Reyn was worried about transgender women. Reyn is a competitive swimmer, and she was concerned about what it would mean to compete against athletes who are transgender women. “I don’t support that whatsoever,” she said, “knowing that can happen to me in any race.” The idea that transgender women are ruining school sports has been a popular narrative on the right — especially for those keen to make the anti-trans cause relatable to young women. “The real patriarchy,” Kirk, the Turning Point founder, told attendees, is “men wearing woman face and playing female sports.”
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The GOP and their base are increasingly out of touch with the American people. Yet they keep trying to impose their outdated religious and moral views on the rest of us. That is not what the separation of church and state was supposed to be about! They are so paternalistic and morally constipated, that they can't stand others making personal decisions that conflict with their own. No body else is hurt when a woman decides to get an abortion, yet they can't stand the thought of it and it bothers them so much, they don't want anyone to get one. But what about us imposing our woke views on their racist and discriminatory ways, they retort. Other people do get actually hurt economically, socially and emotionally from their racism and discrimination. Just because it makes them uncomfortable to think about someone getting an abortion, or being gay or trans because of their personal religious and moral beliefs is not sufficient reason to impose those beliefs on others. Seems like a no-brainer yet they can't let go of the authoritarian, paternalistic impulse to impose what they think is right on everybody else because it makes them feel badly. Get over it and act like an adult instead of a child trying to obey their (heavenly) father.

Article: Sixty-four percent say abortion should be legal in all or most cases: poll

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"Almost two-thirds of Americans believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases, according to a new poll taken about eight months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

The survey, released Thursday from the nonpartisan research organization Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), found that 64 percent of respondents believed abortion should be legal in at least most cases, while only 34 percent said it should be illegal in most or all cases.

The number of respondents who mostly support allowing the procedure has continually increased in the poll since 2010, when 55 percent of respondents said they supported it. The amount opposed to it has declined from 42 percent since then."

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