POLITICO: JD Vance Has ‘Weird Views on Gender’

So much has happened in the past two weeks that it's difficult to keep up with the news cycle. Donald Trump was hit by a would-be assassin's bullet in Pennsylvania. The Republican National Convention went off with a lot of enthusiasm. President Joe Biden disappeared with "COVID" for five days and then announced via a letter posted on X that he was dropping out of the presidential race. Within a day, the entire Biden campaign had rebranded as the Harris campaign and the media ran with her as the new Democrat presidential nominee, despite there being no vote.

During the RNC, the media's job was to find fault with everything said at the convention and to destroy whomever Trump announced would be his running mate. Trump picked Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, so we got to enjoy pieces like this one:

OPINION: JD Vance has a bunch of weird views on gender.https://t.co/HoKY9mo4o3
— POLITICOEurope (@POLITICOEurope) July 24, 2024

Weird views on gender? Like there are only two?

POLITICO reported on Vance's snark at "childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too":

Vance appears to be a decent family man — someone who supports traditional conservative values, and is even willing to buck conventional GOP norms by supporting strong pro-family policies. But a quick perusal of his thoughts on women and gender reveal some unusual opinions that lie outside the American mainstream, beyond a stray comment about cat ladies.
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Vance appears to be a decent family man — someone who supports traditional conservative values, and is even willing to buck conventional GOP norms by supporting strong pro-family policies. But a quick perusal of his thoughts on women and gender reveal some unusual opinions that lie outside the American mainstream, beyond a stray comment about cat ladies.
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As for Vance’s comments about miserable cat ladies, they sound like the tamer musings of far-right extremists like Costin Alamariu, whose 2018 book Bronze Age Mindset popularized the concept of “the Longhouse,” a disparaging description of a political culture dominated by women, or Stephen Wolfe, who similarly rails against a “gynocracy” society where women have outsize control in his 2023 book The Case for Christian Nationalism and believes that in the ideal state women would not have the right to vote.

JD Vance has solid and informed views on family, gender and sex.

Gender-bending radicals who can't define what a 'woman' is, think there are 87 genders, and don't recognize that chemically castrating a 12-year-old is child abuse, call it 'weird'. It's not.
— Dr Patrick M. - AI Builder (@patmcguinness) July 26, 2024

How many cats do you figure Field has? She certainly has read a lot of books about Christian nationalists and gender and is writing her own book on the New Right.

In all of this, Vance fits squarely within (and identifies with) the faction of the American New Right that typically refers to itself as “postliberalism.”
Patrick Deneen, a professor at Notre Dame, captured the basic outlook on gender and feminism among this cohort in his 2018 hit Why Liberalism Failed. Deneen’s argument is that liberal modernity is based on an irreparably individualistic view of human nature, which leads to a culture that values autonomy over community and family life. “Liberalism posits that freeing women from the household is tantamount to liberation,” he wrote, “but it effectively puts women and men alike into a far more encompassing bondage,” because work outside the home is submission to the forces of market capitalism. Somewhat bizarrely, in the postliberal mind, even gay marriage — people coming together and uniting legally into family units — becomes a form of social dissolution, because it is based on individual choice rather than traditional moral forms.
Vance is an admirer of Deneen’s work and was a featured speaker at the launch of his most recent book, Regime Change, at Catholic University in May 2023.

So forget the far-right … now the bogeyman is the New Right, which embraces "overt chauvinism."

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