JD Vance: The Manosphere's Most Prominent Politician
Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, holds sexist, outdated, and misogynistic views on women and their place in society. We know this because he shares them with anyone who will listen and whenever a microphone is present. Clips continue to surface of the U.S. Senator (Ohio) sharing his views on women, motherhood, and family — the need for traditional gender roles and the nuclear family structure to “make a comeback” — in order to set America back on track.
First, there was his “childless cat lady” comment. It goes further than Vance believing politicians like Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Pete Buttigieg are miserable with their own choices and want the rest of the country to be miserable as well. It also goes further than him believing they, and other childless people, have “no stake” in the country since they don’t have biological children. Vance claimed, in emails to his supporters, that The Left is ran by “elites” of both genders who don’t have children and are “anti-family” and “anti-children.” Yes, Vance believes Democrats don’t want men and women to marry each other and procreate. This makes sense. Vance hates any family that’s not the nuclear family. Therefore, if you are tolerant of families that are not traditional, then you hate the traditional family. That’s JD Vance logic.
As reported by CNN —
In November 2020, Vance said on a conservative podcast that childless Americans, especially those in the country’s “leadership class,” were “more sociopathic” than those with children and made the country “less mentally stable.” Vance added that the “most deranged” and “most psychotic” commentators on Twitter — now known as X — were typically childless.
In September 2021, Vance tweeted that “cat ladies…must be stopped” in response to a report that a higher percentage of Americans fear having children because of climate change. In another tweet a month later, Vance wrote, “Our country’s low birth rates have made many elites sociopaths.”
“We’ve allowed ourselves to be dominated by childless sociopaths — they’re invested in NOTHING because they’re not invested in this country’s children. Fighting back won’t be easy — our childless opponents have a lot of free time. That’s why I need YOU to stand with me.”
Another fundraising email reads, “Our country is basically run by childless Democrats who are miserable in their own lives and want to make the rest of the country miserable too… What I want to know is: why have we turned our country over to people who don’t have a direct stake in it?”
What in thee entire hell???
I guess it’s just more JD Vance logic.
Let’s get this out the way. American birthrates are declining. However, this is something that’s happening globally. Democrats do have fewer children than Republicans, so I’m guessing this is the information Vance took and decided to run with. The Washington Examiner reports that “a poll by the American Enterprise Institute shows that counties that voted for Joe Biden in 2020 have a 25% lower birthrate average than counties that voted for Donald Trump…this is due to stronger convictions most Republicans have about wanting children and opposing abortion and contraceptives, as opposed to Democrats.”
Here are some stats from the Pew Research Center that Vance is probably using.
Married men and women are more likely to identify with or lean toward the Republican Party than their unmarried counterparts, with 59% of married men and half of married women oriented toward the GOP.
Women who have never been married are three times as likely to associate with the Democratic Party as with the Republican Party (72% vs. 24%).
By a narrower — though still sizable — margin (61% to 37%), never-married men also favor the Democrats.
A slim majority (54%) of fathers of children under age 18 identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, compared with 44% of men who do not have children. There is a nearly identical gap in partisan association between mothers of minor children and women without children.
Since most Democratic politicians have spouses and children, as that’s usually a prerequisite to get elected to public office (with exceptions like Republicans Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott at the time of Vance’s comments), Vance called out three Democratic politicians who he believed supported his claim (and happened to be two nonwhite women and one gay white man) — Harris, Ocasio-Cortez, and Buttigieg). Vance knew exactly what it was about them that would get the people going. This is despite the fact that Harris is a stepmother, Buttigieg was in the process of adopting, and is now an adoptive father, and Cortez is married and has never stated whether she plans to become a mother or not.
Also, the misogynist in Vance leapt out, causing him to use the term cat ladies, but his nasty rhetoric about childless people applies to both women and men. Childless cat men or fellas…
We get it. Vance knows that he has psychopathic tendencies, so he feels that he needs children to be a decent person. This doesn’t apply to everyone. Also, the point of having kids is for their benefit. Not yours. No?
Misogynistic takes from Vance also include his agreement with a podcast host, in 2020, that the purpose of the “postmenopausal female” is to be a caregiver to her grandchildren. As reported by MSNBC —
In a viral thread on X, a remarkable collection of women demonstrated precisely why they are entitled to a respected place in society. The respondents included an operating room nurse, a city council member, a CEO of a landscape supply company, a CPA, and a legal assistant. Food pantry volunteers, political campaign volunteers, and yes, pet owners and caregivers all chimed in too. Elsewhere on the platform, “The Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood did not mince words: “So, um, speaking as a very postmenopausal woman, if I didn’t have grandkids should I be taken out and shot? Lacking a sole purpose?”
Vance couldn’t be any more out of touch. There were also his comments that, in place of policy that actually supports mothers, the grandparents and siblings of parents should help out with childcare. Clearly, he meant the grandmothers and other female relatives. He went a step further and said that there should be more preschool and lower elementary teachers because the credentials and qualifications shouldn’t be as high. This is what he thinks of America’s teachers.
Per Salon —
Last week, vice president candidate JD Vance responded to questions about child care costs. On the heels of a surgeon general’s warning proclaiming that parental stress is a public health crisis in America while speaking at a conservative event, Vance was asked, “What can we do about lowering the cost of day care?” More than half of American families spend over 20 percent of their combined income on child care.
“One of the ways that you may be able to relieve a little bit of pressure on people who are paying so much for day care is, make it so that, maybe like grandma or grandpa wants to help out a little bit more, or maybe there’s an aunt or uncle who wants to help out a little bit more,” Vance said. “If that happens, you relieve some of the pressure on all the resources that we’re spending on day care.”
How is grandma going to relieve the financial burden for her daughter/son, and fill the role of a free childcare provider, when she’s still working to take care of herself because the government has abandoned its senior citizens?
In fact, as reported by the Move for Hunger website, “many of our older citizens struggle with hunger and food insecurity … since the start of the recession in 2007, the number of seniors facing hunger has increased by 65%. Nearly 3.8 million of older Americans are unsure of where they will find their next meal.” Also, many grandparents aren’t senior citizens. They might still be supporting their own minor children and/or have decades left to work.
The United States needs better policy to help families — not politicians saying that grandparents should pick up the slack. In the Salon article, “Erin Erenberg, founder of Chamber of Mothers, a nonprofit that advocates for better support for moms, with local chapters in 21 states told Salon…the fact that it is financially not a priority for our lawmakers is a major problem and signals, especially to mothers, that our care work is not valuable.””
She went on to say —
The system is absolutely broken. When you look at the fact that we do not subsidize any kind of child care from ages zero to five, you can see why families are struggling.
In, Norway, for example (per Business Insider) —
Norway’s lifetime risk of maternal death is one in 14,900 births. Mothers can take 35 weeks of maternity leave at full-time pay or 45 weeks at 80% pay. Parents can also receive an additional 46 weeks off at full-time pay or 56 weeks at 80% of their salary.
Let’s not forget that Project 2025 wants to get rid of Head Start — free childcare for low-income families. As reported by Verify —
The proposal to eliminate the Head Start program is in the chapter about the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). That chapter explicitly calls for the elimination of the Head Start program because the author claims it’s “fraught with scandal and abuse.”
Republicans couldn’t be any more self-contradictory or out-of-touch.
If you want women to have more babies, make it easier.
But, of course, it’s not about making life easier for women. In fact, men like Vance want life to be harder for women.
If you don’t know what the manosphere is, here’s Wikipedia’s definition —
The manosphere is a diverse collection of websites, blogs, and online forums promoting masculinity, misogyny, and opposition to feminism.
The manosphere overlaps with the far-right and alt-right communities.
Vance is a dude bro/tech bro/far-right manosphere misogynist who, like the rest of them, wants to punish women and put them back in their place. It’s not about “the family.” It’s about hatred for women. This is why he’s always popping up on podcasts. He’s a podcast bro.
In 2021, Vance said on a podcast, of course, that women who pursue careers instead of family are heading down a path of misery. This is probably the #1 talking point of the manoshphere. Basing your identity on your career, basically trying to be a man, and failing to start a family, leads to misery and childless cat lady status for women.
As reported by The Independent—
In the Moment of Truth recording, in which Vance is speaking with American Moment’s president and founder, Saurabh Sharma, and its COO Nick Solheim, the then-candidate for Ohio’s Senate seat was asked about what he saw inside elite institutions such as Yale Law School.
“You have women who think that truly the liberationist path is to spend 90 hours a week working in a cubicle at McKinsey instead of starting a family and having children.”
“The corruption is it puts people on a career pipeline that causes them to chase things that will make them miserable and unhappy,” Vance said. “And so they get in positions of power and then they project that misery and happiness on the rest of society.”
Continuing along that line, Vance adopted what he sees as the perspective of a professional woman and said: “Okay, clearly, this value set has made me a miserable person who can’t have kids because I already passed the biological period when it was possible. And I live in a 1,200 sq ft apartment in New York and I pay $5,000 a month for it.”
Who is telling women not to start a family? No, seriously, I would like to know…
A person from the manosphere creating policy pertaining to women and their bodies is dangerous. If you’re familiar with these men, who come from all walks of life, you know they’re obsessed with the past and traditional gender roles. They long for the days, that they haven’t experienced, when a man’s wife was his property and he was the king of the castle. They want to return to the days when abortion was illegal (so they could trap women trough childbirth), when women couldn’t file for divorce, when spousal rape wasn’t a thing, and when domestic violence wasn’t a crime. Not all of them want women working within the home because, realistically, they need a submissive provider.
Also, don’t forget, Vance and the Republican party want white women to have more babies so white people don’t become a racial minority in the U.S.
This is what the controlling and coercive policies, like abortion bans, are all about.
Vance isn’t even trying to hide his regressive viewpoints and ideology. I think it’s safe to say he’s far more extreme than Trump. He does not need to be Vice President of this country. We need a woman. We need Kamala Harris.
Election Day is November 5th.
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Junkyard Dog Vance is pretty scary. The uninformed will snag on to his anti-woman rhetoric and run with it.
His deviousness makes him more dangerous than other Republican destroyers of democracy.
Ms. Morris, JD Vance via Sarah Huckabee, that only mothers of children can have humility. You are out of luck if you have no children. Maybe, I blowing her comment out of proportion- taking her remark out of context. Maybe, her daughter's comment of, "It's OK, Mommy, one day you can be pretty too," was an anecdotal- not meant for public consumption. To me however, the fact you thought about it, regardless of who it involved, hints at how Ms. Huckabee's mind works. Mothers have no monopoly on humility. Motherhood is not a necessary qualification for humility. Just being a human means you have the capacity to be humble- man, woman,or child. Ms. Huckabee comments about how only women with children, compared to childless women can have humility, is eroding women's rights in the U.S. These words are the building blocks of misogyny. Misogynists using the outdated beliefs that women are good for only two things, sexual gratification for mostly men and to procreate. By standing by these words Mr. Vance in a sense burning his bridges by marginalizing almost 25% of the U.S. population.(1)
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1) https://www.statista.com/statistics/241538/percentage-of-childless-women-in-the-us-by-ethnic-group/