Somehow, I am not surprised thoughā¦
Yeah, Iām horrified w/o being the least bit surprised.
Weird how this keeps happening with pastors, politicians, cops but never trans folks or drag queens. Maybe the fascists got it wrong?
US society, in general, would be far worse today without no-fault divorce. This jackass is going to lead the charge to destroy it.
Well, in addition to having no conscience, so heāll do what Pense was āreluctantā to do (once gallows were erected outside the capital).
But perhaps thatās because itās not really hypocrisy that drives the MAGA movement. Itās an attachment to traditional hierarchies that allow such appalling double standards to flourish. Violence from Republicans, such as on January 6, is acceptable because itās enforcing the social order they support. But the attempted murder of Trump is beyond the pale because itās an assault on the only leader they accept as legitimate.
In that light, itās not hard to see what holds Vanceās seemingly disparate views together. Itās not a faith in marriage, but an allegiance to male domination.
While he was carefully gender-neutral in his 2021 comments, the larger context suggests Vanceās grievance is with women. No-fault divorce is the result of years of feminist organizing. Women initiate 70% of divorces. And while there are certainly male victims of domestic abuse, the vast majority of people who need to escape violent marriages are women. Vance can play all the word games he likes, but when heās deriding āpeopleā for not having good enough reasons for ending marriages, thereās little doubt itās women heās mostly thinking of. Itās usually women who are being chastised in these right-wing laments about divorce. Women have always been the ones expected to suffer adultery, abuse, or just plain unhappiness to hold a marriage together. Divorced men like Trump donāt get rebuked, especially by the Christian right, even when itās their adulteries and abuses that caused the divorce. Ultimately, the blame is placed on the wives for not working harder to save the marriage.
This sexist double standard explains why Trumpās biggest base of support is divorced men, as pollster Daniel Cox demonstrated last week.
So, like Trump? He decries people like Trumpā¦ 
Nah, he doesnāt decry people like Trump. After all, Trump is a man. He decries women who initiate a no fault divorce
All these men going after no-fault divorce. They just want to remove it as an option for women. They are perfectly fine with men chosing it. That they donāt understand there isnāt a legal way to allow men to file for no-fault but not women is very on-brand. Or they just donāt give a fuck about the legality. Fascist regimes certainly donāt and they want that too
That sounds like someone who knows that his spouse wants to leave him and is angry about it.
