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Jilly_in_VA

(11,798 posts)
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 06:19 PM 19 hrs ago

Now comes the 'womanosphere': the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican

On the most recent episode of her YouTube show, the rightwing commentator Brett Cooper joined the rest of the world in jeering Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez’s brief flight to space.

“These women were completely dependent on men who built this spacecraft,” she said with a cheeky smirk. “Frankly, we all are, because men built civilization. They built the homes that we live in, they built the studio that I am recording in … the spaceships that all of these rich celebrities are flying around in.” The difference between Cooper and feminists, she says, “is I choose to acknowledge that and celebrate it and be grateful”.

The Blue Origin flight was prime fodder for Cooper, a bubbly, fast-talking 23-year-old with silky espresso brown curls and colorful Pinterest-friendly prints on the wall behind her. She posts biweekly videos commenting on hot-button social and cultural issues. Thumbnails on YouTube depict her – eyebrows raised quizzically, mouth agape in faux surprise – alongside titles like SNOW WHITE EPIC FAIL and CAPTAIN AMERICA HATES AMERICA? in yellow all caps. These cultural flashpoints serve as her evidence that young women are finally “waking up” to the lies feminism has apparently told them.

There is a sizable audience for Cooper’s brand of disarming anti-feminist content. She had the second-fastest growing political YouTube channel in the first quarter of 2025 with over 900,000 new subscribers, according to data analyzed by researcher Kyle Tharp. Her Spotify audience is about 60% female, a spokesperson told Semafor.

Analyses of the 2024 election widely heralded the “manosphere” – the coalition of bro podcasters and YouTubers popular with male audiences – as key to delivering Donald Trump’s victory. According to an AP poll, 56% of men under age 30 went for Trump compared with 41% four years prior. By meeting young men where they were at, Trump and his surrogates were able to reach voters who are typically among the least politically engaged segments of society.

Now, there are the beginnings of an organized effort to create a similar alternative rightwing media ecosystem targeting young female US audiences – one of the few demographics that has, until now, leaned substantially Democratic.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/womanosphere-conservative-women

Look out for them! I myself am relatively thin, but way past fertile and in no way Republican...and my husband can fix his own damn sandwich!

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Now comes the 'womanosphere': the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA 19 hrs ago OP
All the progress women have made is being destroyed. Irish_Dem 19 hrs ago #1
Hear me when I say: all the female progress of the last 150 years. The "50 years" was only a meme... Hekate 19 hrs ago #3
Clue #4 Irish_Dem 18 hrs ago #4
Yes. If your lady-parts are bleeding, no need to investigate why. It's no doubt your fault... Hekate 18 hrs ago #5
Here we go... milestogo 19 hrs ago #2
Like in China, female babies killed or sent to orphanages. Irish_Dem 18 hrs ago #6
Well, I had three boys Bettie 17 hrs ago #10
My daughter has SEVEN half Puerto Rican sons and stepsons Jilly_in_VA 6 hrs ago #16
Seven? Wow! Bettie 5 hrs ago #17
Well, the men better step up then to provide for the 'little woman' Blaukraut 18 hrs ago #7
Stomach-turning madness. (nt) Paladin 18 hrs ago #8
This crap is being funded by a lot of the usual suspects... keep_left 17 hrs ago #9
I've been thinking about downloading one of the tracking apps. Ilsa 17 hrs ago #11
Sorry, None of the Above Deep State Witch 17 hrs ago #12
4B forever!! Coventina 17 hrs ago #13
I totally support 4B with the exception of the anti gay men and trans tendencies. JanMichael 16 hrs ago #14
Bring on..... Gilead!👍 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 electric_blue68 16 hrs ago #15

Hekate

(97,332 posts)
3. Hear me when I say: all the female progress of the last 150 years. The "50 years" was only a meme...
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 06:48 PM
19 hrs ago

People who actually read all of the Dobbs decision know that Roe was only a pretext to go after all our civil liberties having to do with bodily autonomy.

Clue #1 was how the insanely self-hating Clarence Thomas pointed to the Loving decision, which permitted his own marriage to a white woman; and how the insanely woman-hating Alito revived shaming language I grew up with and pointed to the “duty” of girls and women to supply adoptable (ie white) babies to childless couples.

Clue #2 was the immediate reaction of red-state legislatures, who dusted off zombie abortion laws from as far back as 1850, and added their own toxic brew essentially forbidding pregnant girls and women the right of interstate travel because they might get an abortion. Abortion is recriminalized, and then some.

Clue #3 (possibly it was even the first clue) was redefining all means of female contraception and care for miscarriages as forms of abortion.

I am glad to be thoroughly post-menopausal, but my advocacy on behalf of reproductive rights was never solely on my own behalf.

Irish_Dem

(68,581 posts)
4. Clue #4
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 06:54 PM
18 hrs ago

Making it illegal to save the life of dying pregnant women.
Women being sent to hospital parking lots to bleed out.

Modern day Salem witch trials.

Hekate

(97,332 posts)
5. Yes. If your lady-parts are bleeding, no need to investigate why. It's no doubt your fault...
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 07:11 PM
18 hrs ago

…and the outcome is in Gawd’s Hands alone.

Bettie

(18,183 posts)
10. Well, I had three boys
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 08:19 PM
17 hrs ago

white boys in fact.

They think all of this is bullshit and were raised to be decent humans.

Maybe it's because I'm fat (and thus worthless, regardless of my whiteness) that they turned out that way.

Jilly_in_VA

(11,798 posts)
16. My daughter has SEVEN half Puerto Rican sons and stepsons
Fri Apr 25, 2025, 07:50 AM
6 hrs ago

and they're not buying any of this bullshit either. Their sisters are strong, independent women.

Oddly enough, the next generation in my family, my great-nieces and the great=grands---they're ALL girls. Every last dang one of them! And I would bet that every last one of them will grow up independent and strong, just like their mamas.

Blaukraut

(5,958 posts)
7. Well, the men better step up then to provide for the 'little woman'
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 07:33 PM
18 hrs ago

With today's cost of living and salaries/wages not keeping up, the guy needs to work more than one job to keep a roof over his family's head and food on the table.

The fantasy world these people live in is neither achievable, nor desirable.

keep_left

(2,847 posts)
9. This crap is being funded by a lot of the usual suspects...
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 08:13 PM
17 hrs ago

Last edited Thu Apr 24, 2025, 08:47 PM - Edit history (1)

...including reprobates like Peter Thiel. It was reported a couple of years ago that Thiel was funding Evie, which is basically a slickly produced, highly retrograde anti-feminist magazine. Since then, Evie has expanded into ventures such as a "feminine wellness" company that makes a cellphone app used to track fertility cycles. The magazine regularly runs articles favoring radtrad Catholic "natural family planning", Covid vaccine conspiracies, etc.

Thiel was also reported to be the sugar daddy behind the sudden rightward lurch of the Red Scare podcast (they formerly ran in the same social circles as the Chapo Trap House show hosts).

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Evie_Magazine
https://just-tech.ssrc.org/2022/09/peter-thiels-investment-firm-is-backing-a-menstrual-cycle-focused-femtech-company/

Ilsa

(62,721 posts)
11. I've been thinking about downloading one of the tracking apps.
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 08:25 PM
17 hrs ago

It might be fun to mess with their heads since I haven't had a period in over 20 years.

Deep State Witch

(11,746 posts)
12. Sorry, None of the Above
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 08:31 PM
17 hrs ago

I guess they'll have to deport my fat, infertile, Pagan, and Democratic ass to somewhere where I'm appreciated.

Coventina

(28,314 posts)
13. 4B forever!!
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 08:41 PM
17 hrs ago

I teach college.

The women in my courses wouldn't put up with that shit for 5 seconds!!

JanMichael

(25,577 posts)
14. I totally support 4B with the exception of the anti gay men and trans tendencies.
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 09:03 PM
16 hrs ago

The other parts of it I totally understand. The manosphere has ruined too many young men for women.

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