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In the days after the presidential election, Sadie Perez began carrying pepper spray with her around campus. Her mom also ordered her and her sister a self-defense kit that included keychain spikes, a hidden knife key and a personal alarm. It’s a response to an emboldened fringe of right-wing “manosphere” influencers who have seized on Republican Donald Trump ’s presidential win to justify and amplify misogynistic derision and threats online. Many have appropriated a 1960s abortion rights rallying cry, declaring “Your body, my choice” at women online and on college campuses. For many women, the words represent a worrying harbinger...

Every American, whether Republican or Democrat, gets an image in their heads when they hear the phrase "childless cat lady." The ornery, wild-haired crone. The dilapidated house and overgrown weeds. The outdated, peeling wallpaper and dusty cookbooks. Boxes of broken and mismatched bric-a-brac, their existence long since forgotten until a naïve caretaker suggests she throw it out, at which time she furiously declares it a priceless treasure. And cats. Everywhere, cats. Pampered cats and emaciated cats. Purchased cats and stray cats, vaccinated cats and feral cats, live cats and dead cats. And cat hair. And opened cans of cat food....

In the days before the election, when too many stories about deadlocked polls and undecided voters and the MAGAfication of young men began to wear on my soul, I turned to TikTok to see what women were thinking. Soon enough I was swimming in a sea of female excitement and angst. I watched videos of ordinary women of all ages and races—in deep blue districts and deep red ones—describing what this election meant to them. Women who had just voted, sitting in their cars and sobbing about what it would mean to elect the first female president, what it would...

Just over a week ago, President Trump won a landslide victory over Kamala Harris to achieve a second term in office. Several epic tantrums on the part of liberals followed this. Now, some liberal women are so triggered that they are pledging to permanently forgo sex with men as a way to punish them. They have joined what is known as the radical feminist 4B Movement, which first originated in South Korea.

A mother living with alopecia went viral on TikTok for speaking out against liberal women who joined the 4B movement following Donald Trump's election win.. A mother of three who is living with alopecia went viral on social media when she challenged the decision of liberal women to shave their heads to appear more "unattractive" to men in protest of the 2024 presidential election results. In the wake of Donald Trump’s win .. a slew of Kamala Harris supporters adopted the ideology of the radical feminist 4B movement ... One after another, Yang scrolled through videos of women imploring one...

Liberal White Women: STOP CRYING. Nobody Cares Anymore

Usually, I get political wisdom from Rahm Emanuel, not his brother Ari. But a quote from Ari, the Hollywood macher, to Puck’s Matthew Belloni about the gender chasm in 2024 caught my eye. “This election is gonna come down to probably 120,000 votes,” Ari said. “You probably have 60 percent of the male vote for Trump, and the female vote is 60-40 for Kamala. It’s a jump ball. We’re gonna find out who wants this more — men or women.” Are we back to the days of Mars versus Venus? Or did we never leave? It is the ultimate battle...

An exotic large cat native to parts of Africa and Asia has been found hiding under a resident’s deck after being spotted wandering around an Illinois golf club in the suburbs of Chicago, police said. The Hoffman Estates Police Department in Illinois said they were made aware over the last few days of a “large cat in the area of Della Dr and the Hilldale Golf Course” and that the cat was identified to be a caracal, which are characterized by their striking looks with long legs, short tail, long tufted ears and large canine teeth... It is currently unknown...

Recently, a book tour gave me the opportunity to travel around America. Budgets being what they are, I primarily chose cities where I had friends who would happily provide me with places to stay. These were homes, almost without exception, filled with children. I have no children of my own, and this felt like a serendipitous chance to catch up with many of the kids in my life.In America, there is a persistent, pernicious belief that the only way to be invested in a child’s life is to be a parent — and, for women, to give birth to that...

WASHINGTON—Kamala Harris is making abortion rights central to her candidacy for president as Republicans struggle to articulate a winning message on the issue. In contrast with President Biden, who was reluctant to say the word abortion, the vice president has campaigned aggressively on it since the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that eliminated the constitutional right to the procedure. At the White House, she has met with abortion providers and women who have had abortions. Earlier this year, Harris was believed to be the first president or vice president to visit an abortion clinic. After locking up the support to be...

I increasingly feel that feminism has failed my generation. It is a peculiarity of the West that it is divided into sets which differ profoundly in their beliefs. This state of affairs began with the Reformation and has grown more pronounced ever since. There were Protestants and Catholics who differed fundamentally not only on faith but on practical matters. It was among Protestant communities that feminism first emerged, and it is in Protestant countries such as America and Britain in which feminist beliefs have been at their most vocal and strident in tone, like a religion with no dilution of...

by KATE MULVEY, Daily Mail 08:54am 24th February 2006 As I lay on the bathroom floor, clutching my stomach, the tears rolling down my cheeks like torrents, all I could feel was a gaping, infinite sense of loss. Yet I was not at some funeral of a loved one, I was at a child's fourth birthday party, and I was the only woman there without a baby. Are you childless and is it right for you? Tell us in our reader comments below I never planned on being 39 and childless but somehow, here I was, a few months shy...

A woman at the DNC was in the wrong place at the wrong time when Oprah Winfrey mentioned 'childless cat ladies' during her speech Wednesday night. Winfrey was endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris when she referenced J.D. Vance's resurfaced criticism that the US was being run by 'a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives'. 'When a house is on fire we don't ask about the homeowners race or religion... We just try to do the best we can to save them,' Winfrey began. 'And if the place happens to belong to a childless cat...

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the GOP vice presidential nominee, and ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl went back and forth over his past comments about “childless cat ladies,” as the Ohio Republican tried to clarify his previous suggestion that parents who have children should have more power than adults who do not have children. Vance has faced repeated backlash for 2021 remarks during which he told then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the country was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want...

In the decades-long push to market candidates like soda pop, Kamala Harris marks the ultimate triumph of style over substance. Eschewing dusty position papers and tired old interviews, the vice president is campaigning on memes – quick flash images and hip slogans for a new generation. Pushing voters to feel rather than think –with a panache that makes Donald Trump’s gut-level appeals seem thoughtful – Harris’ vibe-driven campaign has already given us “brat” (a dance and a weltanschauung), “weird,” “freedom,” and “coconut trees.” But if her TikTok-inspired operation has its way, 2024 is going to be all about Cat Ladies....

When you choose to live life without kids, you hear it all — from "Oh, you’ll change your mind!" to "Wow, life must be so easy for you," as if an existence without littles is all last-minute vacations to the Caribbean and a seamless work-life balance. While that’s not a true picture of the PANK (professional aunt, no kids) life — a term coined by bestselling author Melanie Notkin in 2008 — a child-free status is still considered unconventional, despite its rise in popularity. Case in point: In a resurfaced interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Republican Vice...

By now, you’re probably aware Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance has described Democrats as “childless cat ladies” with no “direct stake” in America’s future. We, on the other hand, have been ears-deep in data. ... About 38 percent of Democrats had never had children as of 2022, compared with 26 percent of Republicans, according to the universally beloved General Social Survey from the universally beloved NORC at the University of Chicago.... ... in recent years, Democrats have become a bit more likely to be childless no matter their age. In fact, they’re more likely to be childless across almost every...

The Ohio Republican and running mate to Donald Trump attempted to downplay the comment again on Sunday. But The View co-host Ana Navarro wasn’t buying it. “They’ve given him, J.D. Vance, all these opportunities to clean up his childless cat lady comment, and he hasn’t been able to,” Navarro said. “Like, he ended up apologizing to the cats instead of to the ladies!”

Washington — Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance defended his comment about "childless cat ladies" on Friday as he faces backlash after his 2021 remarks recirculated this week. "Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment," he said in an interview on "The Megyn Kelly Show" on SiriusXM.... "It's just a basic fact... the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?"... Vance reiterated Friday that "it's not a criticism of people who don't have...

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton is joining those criticizing vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s past statement about “childless cat ladies.” Bolton thinks the comment could resonate politically as much as 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s remarks describing some Trump supporters as “deplorables.” “I think these comments by Vance are really the 2024 counterpart of [former Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton’s famous statement in the 2016 election where she called Trump supporters ‘deplorables,’” Bolton said on CNN’s “The Source” Friday. “[I] mean, if politicians can’t learn — it’s one thing to attack your opponent, it’s another thing to...