Yet we must never forget the horrors we had to endure.
Posted on 10/12/2025 3:29:21 PM PDT by Drew68
This summer, I got cultural whiplash.
As a child of the ’90s and early 2000s, I grew up with my mother’s and grandmother’s generations’ fight for legal and workplace equality helping shed social misogyny.
In the past decade in particular, I saw the evidence of progress in my media diet. The movies, shows, books and advertisements I consumed were increasingly giving women a seat at the table. Heroin chic fell away, and body positivity entered the fashion world. Stories about a woman stealing your man were traded for celebration of the “girl’s girl” who resisted the competition for men’s attention.
And when my husband and I got married earlier this year, our vision of what our life could be included wide-ranging possibilities, influenced in part by the movies and shows we grew up with. We saw, read and listened to stories of involved fathers, successful mothers and well-matched partners who supported one another.
It seemed like women were taking a deeper breath without such heavy cultural restrictions.
Then there was a shift.
Was it around the 2024 presidential election? Or since the overturn of Roe v. Wade? Maybe when men’s rights activists pushed back against #MeToo? Whatever the catalyst, a change in the political environment seemed to connect with a social change that brought back narrow, and at times constrictive, ideas of womanhood depicted in media.
The recent rise of weight loss medications coincided with social media influencers sharing ways to get smaller and no longer celebrating bodies of all sizes. Advertisements followed suit, making men’s desire once again a dominating factor in how stories are told, and how women are portrayed.
How had these discarded ideas made their way back into circulation? Didn’t we all agree we were through with them?
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They shall seek my gaze
To the left, a return to reality is sad.
With a little effort just about anyone can look halfway decent. A lot of women have lost all hope and actively try to be ugly. They succeed hugely. I have no respect for people who give up like that.
Cognitive dissonance.
Yet we must never forget the horrors we had to endure.
So all the women stopped wearing makeup, chopped their hair short and wore flats.
Oh, wait, never happened. Why?
Important note: The execrable and worthless Jessica Tarlov, the leftist shill on The Five on Fox News always wears comfortable flats. I am sure it is to insult males at home.
The males should stay far away from all the women like her.
Listen to me now or look back in divorce court as the judge rules the spiteful wife gets everything you own.
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They were made for each other. By a mad scientist who used a petri dish. 🧫
⚗️🧪🧫🧬🔬
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Now we have to unsee it.
This is a guess, just a guess. The author is....PLUS size at least.
In what universe does she think that men at large are going to be oblivious, much less prefer, the difference between Lizzo vs Sydney Sweeney?
What in the world is Madeline Holcombe babbling on and on about? I don’t have a clue.
“no longer celebrating bodies of all sizes.”
Oh noes!
Fat broads are once again just fat broads?
"We" weren't asked.
Madeline prolly treats her new hubby like cr@p. I bet she thinks misandry is the answer.
Agree. All traditional witches sound like that.
Old insult of a face made for radio can be adapted that her voice was made for print newspapers.
I uncharacteristically emailed a complaint about her to Fox headquarters, citing Harold Ford as the sensible Dem voice to be heard.
They stubbornly, resolutely kept her on TV and on the payroll.
Opposing me is never a good idea. I’m always right.
Is there a liberal alive that actually knows the meaning of the word misogyny?
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