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JD Vance Thinks That The ‘Whole Purpose Of The Postmenopausal Female’ Is To Be A Grandmother

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by marky 12:39 PM
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JD Vance can’t seem to stop himself from digging his own grave by idiotically targeting women, “the postmenopausal female” being just the most recent display of sexism and stupidity. I mean,  if Donald Trump hadn’t already made it clear enough that when he says “Make America Great Again,” he means return American society to the 1950s—when Black people and women knew their place, which, for the most part, was in some white man’s kitchen—he certainly clarified his position by choosing Vance– the Harrison Butker –of politics as his running mate. 

Much like how Trump can’t open his mouth about Black people without being stereotypical, insulting and transparently racist, Ohio Sen. JD Vance does not appear to be capable of talking about women without reducing them to husband servants, baby makers and child caregivers as if those roles are the sum of their value in society.

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While Vance is still out here trying to clean up the mess he made for himself when he denigrated women who choose not to have children by insisting in 2021 that “childless cat ladies” shouldn’t be holding elected positions, another clip has resurfaced in which Vance explicitly agreed with Eric Weinstein, host of The Portal podcast, that “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female” is to care for their grandchildren.

The discussion, which took place in 2020—the year before Vance declared that women who don’t want children are fundamentally useless in American society—started off pretty wholesome, with Vance recalling what dedicated grandparents his wife’s parents were to their children.

“You can sort of see the effect it has on him to be around them like they spoil him,” he said of his first child. “There’s sort of all the classic stuff that grandparents do to grandchildren, but it makes him a much better human being to have exposure to his grandparents.”

That’s when things took a turn.

From the Independent:

“That’s the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female in theory,” Weinstein said at the time.

“Yes,” Vance agreed.

“When your child was born, did your in-laws, and particularly your mother-in-law, show up in some huge way?” Weinstein asked Vance.

“She lived with us for a year,” former President Donald Trump’s running mate noted.

“I didn’t know the answer to that. So that’s a weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman,” Weinstein responded.

“It’s in some ways, the most transgressive thing I’ve ever done against sort of the hyper-neo-liberal approach to work and family,” Vance said. “My wife had this baby seven weeks before she started the clerkship, [she’s] still not sleeping any more than an hour and a half in a given interval. And her mom just took a sabbatical. She’s a biology professor in California, just took a sabbatical for a year and came and lived with us and took care of our kid for a year.”

So, after Weinstein suggested that women in their 50s and 60s should serve the sole purpose of being grandmothers, and then reduced Indian women down to the “unadvertised feature” of their willingness to live with their grandchildren—which is in no way unique to Indian grandmothers—the two men rambled on about how great it is when women who are mothers and grandmothers give up their professional lives to be homemakers while lamenting what Weinstein described as a “sort of fundamental liberalism” that influenced women to keep their jobs instead of engaging in “other forms of contributing to a society” like keeping a warm dinner and a bun in the oven.

Imagine telling Toni Morrison, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature when she was 61, which happened after she won the Pulitzer in her 50s, that her “whole purpose” as a “postmenopausal female” should have been helping to raise her children’s children. Imagine saying the same thing to Oprah Winfrey, who made the conscious decision not to have children, but somehow, someway still managed to become one of the most successful business leaders in the history of the U.S.–even before she launched OWN when she was almost 60.

Actually, we can imagine Vance saying these things to older women since his “cat ladies” remark was aimed in part at Vice President Harris, who, at 59, is a vice president who may very well become the nation’s first Black woman commander-in-chief.

It’s worth mentioning that Vance’s sexism doesn’t only show when the Ghost of Misogynist’s Past pays him a visit with a years-old clip. On Wednesday, he sat down with one of Fox News’ many white blonde carbon copies, Laura Ingraham, and suggested that women who are pro-choice are not “normal.”

During the interview, Ingraham suggested that “suburban women” who care about abortion rights don’t understand that abortion is not “banned nationally,” exposing her own misunderstanding that it matters at all that each state can decide its own abortion laws when, in truth, pro-life people believe no governing body should be able to tell women what to do with their bodies, let alone force them to birth children under penalty of law. Vance, of course, managed to be even more dismissive of the issue by insisting it’s not a “normal” issue at all.

“Well, first of all, I don’t buy that Laura. I think most suburban women care about normal things that most Americans care about,” Vance replied.

Here, Vance is continuing the white conservative tradition of wrongly assuming conservatives represent popular opinion because they’re the “real Americans.” If he bothered to do any actual research in these matters, he would know that virtually every recent study on American’s positions on abortion shows that more than half of Americans are pro-choice, including well over 60% of women of all economic backgrounds, and that the percentage of Americans who believe abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances has done virtually nothing but rise over the last three decades.

Anyway, while Vance continued to be loud and wrong while mansplaining what women want and what issues they consider “normal,” Harris’ observably more likable running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz responded to the interview by noting that it’s “pretty normal to respect a woman’s right to make her own damn health care decisions.”

Exactly.

SEE MORE:

Op-Ed: Who is JD Vance? Silicon Valley Millionaire MAGA Extremist 

Racist MAGAts Find Out Trump’s VP Pick JD Vance Has An Indian Wife And Family, And They Are Not OK

 

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