How status anxiety fuels misogyny

Men on Twitter are big mad at me. It’s hard to deny that the GOP is currently going hard on overt, violent misogyny. I’m not going to pretend I know exactly why they’re doing this. I did suggest that a large and growing cohort of mostly young, white men are mad at women for rejecting them and are (reasonably) afraid of dying childless and alone if they can’t force women to give birth at gunpoint.

Men keep telling me that it’s definitely not that. They just really think abortion is murder. Which is an objection that I, of course, addressed in the post that they, of course, did not read.

Either way, openly hating half the electorate seems like kind of a weird strategy. (Then again, so is disproportionately killing your own voters en masse.)

I’m certainly biased. But, “Blame and hurt women” doesn’t strike me as a winning tack, long-term.

So what is the GOP’s deal here?