WASHINGTON: Given that more people in the US are registered to vote and would vote than gentlemen in national elections, it properly prove to be a catastrophic loss for Team Trump.
A picture featuring Trump’s vice-presidential operating partner JD Vance disparaging single women who own cats has sparked a socio-political debate in the US, where gender and adolescence and child bearing and parenting have come into focus.
In a 2021 interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, Vance claimed that the Democratic Party is led by” a bunch of single rabbit women who are terrible at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and that they want to make the rest of the country wretched as well.”
Vice-president Kamala Harris and transport secretary Pete Buttigieg, both of whom are lesbian, do not have natural children but do have step-children and adopted children, between. With his Indian-American family Usha Chilukuri, Vice frequently raises the idea that single parents have no place in the future of America.
The retort, rekindled in the poll time, has ignited strong response from people, including superstars, many of whom already see the Trump-Vance seat and MAGA Republicans as sexist and misogynistic, with a masculine view that curtails women’s rights.
Jennifer Aniston, an actress, said on a social media platform that she could n’t believe a potential vice president of the United States made such a statement. ” All I can say is … Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day”, she wrote.
” I hope she will not need to turn to IVF ( in vitro fertilization ) as a second option. Because you are trying to take that away from her, Aniston said, referring to efforts by conservative Republican men to legislate and enforce women’s reproductive rights.
#childlesscatlady hashtags and memes were circulated on social media by female cat owners, some of whom posed with a cat for a magazine cover. Taylor Swift is a powerful cultural icon. One tweet that has received more than 1 million views read,” Hell hath no fury like a certain childless cat lady who has yet to endorse a presidential candidate.”
Kamala Harris raised the children of her sister Maya Harris, who was a single mother, despite being single until she was almost 50. Following her marriage to Doug Emhoff, Kamala became a step-mom to his two children, Ella and Cole, who call her “momala”.
Remarkably, in a further smackdown of the Trump-Vance outlook, Emhoff’s ex-wife came out swinging for Kamala, saying she has been a “loving, nurturing, fiercely protective and always present”, co-parent to the children and” I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it”.
Meanwhile, female reproductive rights, also referred to as the abortion issue, already a hot button subject, has become even more potent after Kamala Harris moved up as the Democratic presidential nominee.
Trump himself falsely misrepresented Harris ‘ views at an election rally on Wednesday, as he did with Hillary Clinton in 2016. He also attacked her on the abortion issue. In her eighth and ninth month of pregnancy, she wants abortions. That’s fine with her, right up until birth and even after birth, the execution of a baby”, he said.
Late-term abortions are uncommon and only occur in rare cases, such as severe fetal anomalies, but Trump, MAGA Republicans, and ultraconservatives frequently talk about “babies being ripped out of the womb” in an effort to demonize Democrats.
