J.D. Vance: Misogynist

Salon:

By now we all know that the Republican VP candidate, J.D. Vance, has dismissed women like Kamala Harris as “childless cat ladies” who are “miserable at their own lives and the choices they’ve made… [who] want to make the rest of the country miserable too.” (Harris, in fact, has two step-children, no cats to speak of, and seems the opposite of miserable.) 

By now we all know that he has defended his wife, Usha Vance, against racist attacks on the grounds that she’s a great mother. (The full quote: “Obviously, [Usha]’s not a white person, and we’ve been accused, attacked by some white supremacists over that. But I just, I love Usha. She’s such a good mom.” Well OK then!) 

By now we also know that he thinks people (read: women) should stay in violent marriages. Slightly less well-publicized but equally alarming audio has Vance, a radical anti-abortion extremist, dismissing the circumstances of being pregnant due to rape and incest as a mere “inconvenience.” 

Recently unearthed audio also showcases Vance agreeing with a conservative talk show host in 2020 that helping raise children “is the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female.” 

That’s right: Their whole purpose. 

He also agreed when the host said that having grandparents pitch in is a “weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman.”