I wish I was surprised that people still think this way but I’m not
Trump-endorsed Michigan GOP Gov. nominee Tudor Dixon went after her rival Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for her support of single, working women:
“‘Families look all different ways.’ They’re the ones telling me that on a regular basis but apparently they’re refusing to see one dynamic here. A lot of people wanna have families. This state, we don’t have support from the governor for families, unless they look exactly the way she wants. And you know what that looks like these days? Looks like single moms — not single moms, single women — working. That’s like her dream for women. Single women working. Last time I checked that was a pretty lonely life.”
Uhm, no. Most single, working women are not lonely and many of them have chosen to remain single and childless. A whole lot of them are divorced and decided that they didn’t need to be married to be happy and many single working moms are creating fulfilling lives for themselves and have no need to stay in bad relationships. Virtually all women, married or single, work and even those who don’t work outside the home would argue that they too have jobs. This is bullshit.
If women don’t get out and vote against people like this they are sowing the seeds of the demise of their freedom and agency. Throwbacks like Dixon may not be able to turn back the tide to 1952 (actually 1852) but they will make policies that make women’s lives as miserable as possible. Between the forced childbirth, the insistence on raising the birthrate along with the growing objections to birth control and the ongoing vilification of women’s freedom to define their own lives how they see fit, we’re seeing a full scale attempt a rolling back the advances women have made in the 60 years or so.