"But some of the forms of misogyny that have been bubbling up in American political discourse lately can seem a bit retro. I don't just mean the tradwives, who dress alternately like June Cleaver or like Ma Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie evoking bygone eras, or at least the ways those eras are depicted on television. And I don't just mean the pro-natalists, either, who don weird bonnets and propose national breeding medals for prolific mothers."
"Misogyny is an ever-evolving idiom, and men and women alike have found particularly of-the-moment ways to operate within the genre. Think of the apps that take images of women and remove their clothes, or the AI bots that men and boys can use to generate pornography or depictions of graphic violence against women and girls for the crime of going to the same school as they do or running for office."
Sexism adapts to contemporary technologies, producing new abuses such as apps that undress women's images and AI bots that create pornography or graphic violence targeting women and girls. Online influencers in the womanosphere promote contempt for women who seek friendships or equality with men. Contemporary misogyny coexists with retro strains like tradwives and pro-natalist movements that romanticize historical gender roles. Since recent Democratic election victories, some right-wing figures have advocated reviving the idea that women should not have the right to vote. Opposition to women's suffrage has been a fringe but persistent current on the American right and has surfaced in social media trends.
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