Are Republican Women Okay?
New York’s June 17–30 cover story by Rebecca Traister examines the new mold of Republican womanhood in the age of Donald Trump, in all its wrath, sweetness, strength, and subservience to the MAGA right. Traister looks at exemplars of this model of Republican woman, including Representative Lauren Boebert, Senator Katie Britt, Governor Kristi Noem, Representative Nancy Mace, Missouri Secretary of State candidate Valentina Gomez, and others, who present a fevered performance of hyperfemininity and hypermasculinity. “It’s a balance between what’s your feminine side and your Main Character Energy,” Mace tells Traister. Ultimately, Traister notes, “if the women of today’s Republican Party are upending gender conventions in unprecedented fashion, they’re doing it in service to a party that has never been more openly hostile to women and their rights.”
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