Cable News Hosts Are Targeting Young Women — Here’s Why

Major conservative commentators labeled young women as a threat simply because they vote differently. Behind the rhetoric is a political strategy rooted in Christian nationalism: keep women dependent, keep them quiet, keep them predictable. But young women today are more informed, more independent, and more politically active than ever and that’s exactly what terrifies the far right.

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Now, what you're about to hear is one of the most open attacks on women that we've seen on national television. Oh, God, I don't know. Ever. I mean, right wing commentators across multiple networks calling young women insane, a scary demographic and a problem that needs to be fixed. They're not talking about crime or, policy. No, they're talking about women and, how they vote.

Okay. And before I show you this clip. Okay, I need you to keep in mind that these are not, like, fringe voices, okay? These are people defining conservative media today. All right, watch this clip.

young women in New York voted for mom Donnie. They voted to make the city dramatically less safe for themselves.

if I was leading the conservative movement, I would say encourage marriage early.

You'll get more conservative young women

Young women are actually insane in this country.

Young American women are very much far left, and they are buying into all of that. But they have been since, and some of them since they were young little girls.

Yeah, I find that very frightening.

There is a, you know, surge of conservatism, but it's with American young men. There is a huge gender gap when it comes to politics. I'm not surprised at all. The young women went incredibly left. I think that young women, it is said, are the most left wing group in history.

And so that just means I have more work to do.

What you just heard isn't, technically, you know, political commentary. It's a blueprint for control.

When they say young women need to marry early. You know, they're not talking about, like, love and this amazing, like, story, and, you know, this and that. No no no no no no no. It has to do with power and the belief that women who marry young, basically they'll become, more financially dependent, more submissive and, easier to shape politically.

Now, I'm not saying that's the case. You know, overall, I'm talking about the conservative agenda here. Okay. That's completely different. Okay. I support a woman's right to marry whoever she wants. How old they are doesn't matter. Okay, but we're talking about a specific political agenda right now, okay? And that's what we're going into. That being said, that is not a family value situation, okay?

It's a strategy. And it fits right into the language of Christian nationalism okay. It's a worldview that says, God put men above women and that the government should protect that order and support it, basically. And that's why you're hearing this on cable news now. It's not just religion, guys. It's like it's politics wearing a cross basically, I think is how I would put that.

And but here's the real story. Young women are voting differently today because they're living differently. Okay. Everybody is. But they're facing higher costs, losing reproductive rights and seeing men in power basically mock them, mock their concerns as insane. I mean, they're not crazy. They're paying attention. And that is what's scaring these commentators. And these right wing, crazy politicians the most.

Okay. They are losing an entire generation of women who think for themselves, who read, organize and vote independently. Instead of, like, asking why they're trying to rewrite the rules. Okay. The pattern. I mean, guys, the pattern. The pattern is always the same. Okay. When women gain power, the backlash calls it chaos. When women speak up, the response is usually insanity.

When women choose freely. Some call that dangerous. And when I say some, I am referring to far right winged, you know, MAGA Christian nationalist wackos. Not anybody else. I want to make that clear, but democracy depends on that freedom. Okay? The right to think, the right to speak, the right to choose, without permission. Okay. And any movement that fears women's independence isn't defending tradition.

Okay? They are based. They're fighting progress. That's exactly what they're doing. They're fighting progress.