Steve Bannons interest in a thinker who inspired fascism exposes the misogyny of the alt-right

[DonCoquixote]

https://qz.com/909323/bannons-interest-for-julius-evola-unveils-the-sexism-at-the-core-of-trump/


serious read, but very very much a trigger warning. It also rips the halo off of Milo and breitbart.

[OKNancy]

1. Very good read, and scary. I do have an argument against this thinking

It's an economic one. The freer women are the better the economy.

Now, some of these oil-rich theocracies may not hold to this, but oil is not forever.

[RadiationTherapy]

3. Hitchens pitched this idea for most of his career as well.

[OKNancy]

5. Thanks you for that! n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Absolutey! Women are creative, hard working, strong, powerful economic forces!

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They persist!

[Mc Mike]

2. It's surprising that Bannon's been divorced 3 times. Nt

[gordianot]

7. That many women got that close to him?

Amazing

[Mc Mike]

8. I had him figured as a young Andy Breitbart,

but he's a young Rush Limbaugh, instead.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. Exactly. His stench permeates the time, space continuum.

Insert Gag Me smilie here.

[mnhtnbb]

4. A billboard has appeared in NC--between Greensboro and Winston-Salem--on IS 40 Business West

the last paragraph of the article:

Either way, it seems fair to say misogyny on some level is built into the set of values this administration inspires to, and, in all likelihood, it will also seep into its policies and the cultural climate Trump and Bannon promote. All that is more than enough to justify the many women who see Trump as a threat, and perhaps explains why it was US women who were the first to start a civic opposition movement to the 45th president of their country.

And the article about the billboard in the local Raleigh paper and opposition being planned against it. Also, the article says the billboard company
won't provide info on who paid for the billboard.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article134453474.html

[littlemissmartypants]

13. This is not only despicable misogyny but an insult to all genders.

Here's something to think about, aside from the overt misogyny it is like kicking someone already down. Incredibly, white middle-aged men are killing themselves in record numbers. This billboard communicates a sentiment that could send the already depressed man, unable to provide for his loved ones, over the edge. Heartbreaking.

[blockquoteDespite decades of advancements in health care, diet and safety, middle-aged white Americans are now living shorter, not longer, lives.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/bb/deaths-despair-cutting-life-short-white-americans

[Ligyron]

9. No wonder they hate Hillary and people like Elizebeth Warren.

Good read.

[littlemissmartypants]

19. I will never, ever understand the Hillary hate.

Down with misogyny. Past time to "smash the patriarchy" as they say. This problem could be a great opportunity. I just know we deserve enlightenment and I will never understand the hate.

[littlemissmartypants]

10. Great post. Thanks DonCoquixote.

Reminded me of this:

[blockquote

Sex And World Peace: How The Treatment Of Women Affects Development And Security

“What we have discovered is that the very best predictor of how insecure and unstable a nation is not its level of democracy, it’s not its level of wealth, it’s not what ‘Huntington civilization’ it belongs to, but is in fact best predicted by the level of violence against women in the society,” said Valerie Hudson, co-author of Sex and World Peace, at an April 26 book launch at the Wilson Center. [Video Below]

Co-author Chad Emmett joined Hudson, along with Jeni Klugman, the World Bank’s director of gender and development, and Richard Cincotta, demographer-in-residence at the Stimson Center, to discuss the security implications of gender inequality and potential policy responses.

The Paradox of Missing Women

The basis of the book – applying a gender lens to international security – followed from early feedback from her colleagues at Brigham Young University, who suggested that if her goal was to understand the reasons for “blood spilt and lives lost,” she would do better to look at ideological conflict rather than women’s security.

More at link: https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2012/05/sex-and-world-peace-how-the-treatment-of-women-affects-development-and-security/

[heaven05]

11. these clowns

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ruling now, the terrible triumvirate, along with the rest of the mysogynistic ruling class, that's men and women, want to return to the days of Ozzie and Harriet, Leave it to Beaver, Donna Reed Show, Father Knows Best. Those who in my day watched those shows saw themselves as able to realize this idealized notion of living in america of the time along with men and women trump voters of today who see themselves as the Ralph Kramden type of 'Honeymooners' fame. Mysogynistic bus driver along with his neighbor Edward 'lillywhite' Norton(actual show name), a sewage worker and their two long suffering wives Alice and Trixie. Donna Reed Show was just soooo white. Beaver, never saw a black on that one either, it was the ICONIC SYMBOL of whitebread ameriKKKa. The boy-potus remembers watching these shows of "idealized suburban american families" and culture of the 20th century, no POC...I would go on but point is made. The terrible triumvirate wants this lie again.

No thanks donnie boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You and your puppets masters, prezidents bannon and miller can kiss my royal ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: IT AIN"T GOING TO HAPPEN, no matter how hard you wish it...

[ismnotwasm]

12. Some of us have been wailing in the desert about this for years.

The misogyny is by no means new. It now has a national platform

[highplainsdem]

14. Remember what Bannon said about the Seven Sisters and progressive women:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-campaign-ceo-once-blasted-bunch-of-dykes-from-the-seve

Donald Trump’s campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, said during a 2011 radio interview that progressives vilify prominent women in the conservative movement because they are not “a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools.”

Citing women like Ann Coulter, Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin, Bannon said conservative women threaten the progressive narrative.

“And so these women cut to the heart of the progressive narrative,” he said on Political Vindication Radio while promoting his movie, Fire From the Heartland: the Awakening of the Conservative Woman.

“That’s why there are some unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement. That, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children. They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England. That drives the left insane and that’s why they hate these women,” he said.

The Seven Sisters schools are the historic women’s colleges of Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Radcliffe College, Smith College, Vassar College, and Wellesley College in the Northeast.

-snip-

[littlemissmartypants]

15. Kicking. Thanks again. eom

[smirkymonkey]

16. K&R

[littlemissmartypants]

18. This needs more kisses, (sometimes autocorrect gets it right.)

Kix and kisses. I really like this thread.