SPECIAL COMMENTARY BY ALICE GIORDANO (notes between printed editions)

Vance: What About Childless Dog Men?

For once I agree with Meghan McCain.  Enough with the parochial, unwarranted misogynistic rants. It’s getting tiresome — and she’s right — it’s going to lead, ever so silently — many good, head-on-straight women away from conservatism.

As a Trump supporter who staunchly opposes radical left lunacy such as openly feeding children to a trans-philia movement or hailing abortion as a reproductive right, I find myself standing in a metaphorical open field wondering just what direction to run in.

Misogyny should not be a conservative value and yet somehow — it is.

While there has been far worse and in the fairness of civil disagreement, open to debate —  Vivek Ramaswamy’s albeit mild, sexist barb about Nikki Haley being Dick Cheney in three-inch heels, Harrison  Butker’s promotion of the ol’ barefoot and pregnant ethos, and now J.D. Vance’s childless cat lady presumptions — remind me of those little boys on the playground who don’t seem to get why girls don’t want to be around them after they tried to look up their skirts and threw dirt in their hair.

These self-appointed  sultans and their sexist not-so hidden underbellies have gotten a little too free with their hypocritical harangues and offensive gross generalizations about women.

Afterall, where is J.D. Vance’s rebuke for childless dog men. According to a 2013 study by Veterinary Practice News, the number of childless dog-owning men grew from 34 percent to almost 44 percent in just one year.

Call it virtue signaling or projecting, but the anti-cat sentiment used by Vance to advance his anti-feminist views smacks a bit of the proverbial disposition that cats don’t automatically worship the ground we walk on.

As it turns out, staunch conservatives can and do love cats. And — shocker, some of us are even vegans. There’s even a group called Vegans for Trump, made up mostly of men, who don’t have blue hair and nose rings, but instead dress in business suits and hold down jobs like real estate developers and even lawyers.

Some of us are even single moms repulsed by Pride parades who  raise their child to thank veterans for their service, go to church on Sundays, and know that a gun in the house is the only way to protect your family.

Some of us love Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me,”  but are as outraged by  the idea of a man peeing in a women’s bathroom as calling us a feminist because we don’t like misogyny in our politics.

If these political doms don’t knock off their narrow-minded assaults on women who don’t fit what they perceive as their mold of a conservative,  we may just end up with the ultimate left-wing disaster of (the true bird brain) Kamala Harris.

We may just end up with another four years of a giant LGBTQ+ flag unfurled down the front of the White House or more illegal immigrants doing pop a wheelies on unregistered scooters down city main streets. We may just end up with Jessie Smollett as our Vice President! She’s crass enough.

So please, stop pigeonholing women who don’t fit exactly into your traditional mold and lumping them into a club of witless chicks.

We are not psycho liberals just because we disagree with Harrison Butker.

Instead of cat lady tirades and single woman and single mom stereotyping, what about beating your drum about say — deadbeat dads, as in the one you had Vance, or the escalating domestic violence committed by men against women —  the infinitesimal number of men breeding porn into one of the leading industries in the country, or the disturbing trend of familicide among men.

Basically, stop your sexist posturing and distorting women as some subspecies that needs to be schooled and “fixed” by your self-appointed superiority or Meghan McCain’s prediction just may very well come true.

Alice Giordano covers headline news, breaking stories and national politics for The Epoch Times since 2021. She is a former news correspondent for the Associated Press and The Boston Globe.