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RandySF

(71,646 posts)
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 01:42 PM Aug 2024

Vance: Women beyond childbearing years are useless and miserable

Unearthed video: JD Vance attacks women “who can't have kids” because they “passed the biological period when it was possible” as “miserable” people who “have no real value system” and struggle to find “meaning”



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Vance: Women beyond childbearing years are useless and miserable (Original Post) RandySF Aug 2024 OP
So once we hit menopause we are to be set out to sea on an ice floe, right? Ocelot II Aug 2024 #1
Yes, useless eaters with no value whatsoever. Irish_Dem Aug 2024 #16
Twofer central scrutinizer Aug 2024 #22
Or sent to the death camps........ lastlib Aug 2024 #47
Apparently. DemonGoddess Aug 2024 #50
My thoughts exactly! SheltieLover Aug 2024 #55
Nuns. Yavin4 Aug 2024 #64
But aren't nuns disqualified from being teachers because they didn't have children? Ocelot II Aug 2024 #79
Maybe you have some use as a babysitter if you have grandchildren. Lonestarblue Aug 2024 #65
If you never had children you won't have grandchildren, so you're already useless. Ocelot II Aug 2024 #71
Vance is pathological misogynist. madaboutharry Aug 2024 #2
Yes, very damaged and utterly despicable! ananda Aug 2024 #8
Sociopaths have taken over the GOP. Irish_Dem Aug 2024 #24
Like a people in the grip of a Mad Magazine Hitler... ananda Aug 2024 #38
It has become a vast collection of broken people from all walks of life. Yavin4 Aug 2024 #67
Yes what happened to the American people. Irish_Dem Aug 2024 #73
We've been conditioned to believe that money cures all problems. Yavin4 Aug 2024 #78
Yes it has a been a ruthless, deliberate psychological operation. Irish_Dem Aug 2024 #80
Pathological misogynist DeeDeeNY Aug 2024 #63
He is a woman hating ass hole and i hate his guts. Trueblue1968 Aug 2024 #83
Yep ck4829 Sep 2024 #99
DU Ladies? Who would like to hold him... while I smack the living bajeebus out of him? (I will reciprocate) hlthe2b Aug 2024 #3
I volunteer! Diamond_Dog Aug 2024 #13
Count me in, my dear hlthe2b! It would be my pleasure! nt CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2024 #17
I was just going to post the same thing. Irish_Dem Aug 2024 #18
Here, I'll take a turn! crosinski Aug 2024 #43
I'll do it if Demobrat Aug 2024 #46
Me! DemonGoddess Aug 2024 #51
Needs a good old fashioned ass-kicking milestogo Aug 2024 #84
I'm not a lady, but I will happily hold him down so that every lady on DU can reserve their energy Aristus Aug 2024 #91
... hlthe2b Aug 2024 #93
how is it POSSIBLE Ohio elected this POS over Tim Ryan?? HOW??? Dock_Yard Aug 2024 #4
A lot of shit doesn't get out RandySF Aug 2024 #7
Dumpy endorsed him. Diamond_Dog Aug 2024 #12
Peter Thiel $$ spooky3 Aug 2024 #14
👆👆This👆👆 hlthe2b Aug 2024 #94
The disgrunteled working class zorbasd Aug 2024 #20
Gazillions of dark money plus racism JT45242 Aug 2024 #27
This man has a sickness and he would like to share it with all of us. n/t Raven Aug 2024 #5
He is a misogynist Sanity Claws Aug 2024 #6
Yes, his Mommy was unavailable Beck23 Aug 2024 #61
he's sickening. barbtries Aug 2024 #9
He and tRUMP both share that same characteristic. Both are women haters and japple Aug 2024 #62
Damn, old jd is sure helping the republican party here. republianmushroom Aug 2024 #10
Useless Eaters Kid Berwyn Aug 2024 #11
Iirc, he wrote a cover blurb for Unhuman Dave says Aug 2024 #25
Matches up with his owner, Peter Thiel Kid Berwyn Aug 2024 #37
Guess the Catholic nuns BattleRow Aug 2024 #52
We've heard this before -'kinder, kuche und kirke' (children, kitchen appalachiablue Aug 2024 #86
+1 ck4829 Sep 2024 #100
Any bets on whether he knows even one child free woman spooky3 Aug 2024 #15
He probably doesn't know many women. RandySF Aug 2024 #19
Well, when he (Goddess-willing) loses and heads back to the Senate, I know a few that will school him on a thing hlthe2b Aug 2024 #23
Projection: vantz means he's useless and miserable Clouds Passing Aug 2024 #21
I have to assume the people who support him have these same values. Biophilic Aug 2024 #26
What a bunch of gobbledy-gook that was wryter2000 Aug 2024 #28
I actually have no idea what he is talking about here. llmart Aug 2024 #77
Boring man with no ideas seeks attention with "No Gurls Allowd Club" struggle4progress Aug 2024 #29
Sounds like someone has zeroed in on a large group of people he would like to get rid of. SamKnause Aug 2024 #30
"Fundamentally atheist or agnostic"? TexasBushwhacker Aug 2024 #31
As if there's anything wrong with being atheist Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #42
Of course but to assume that childless women TexasBushwhacker Aug 2024 #88
"Once everybody agrees with me, then everything will finally come full circle, and we'll have a happy, healthy society." keithbvadu2 Aug 2024 #32
The hallmark of a true narcissist. llmart Aug 2024 #81
ORLY? I feel like my life really got going once I was free tanyev Aug 2024 #33
Oh I know, I know what this is: arlyellowdog Aug 2024 #34
To quote our next POTUS... CTyankee Aug 2024 #35
That man needs to find a better class of women. KentuckyWoman Aug 2024 #36
It's not the women's fault. Sky Jewels Aug 2024 #53
And he's jealous because BattleRow Aug 2024 #56
Hear that menopausal women. Vance doesn't even want your useless vote. Freethinker65 Aug 2024 #39
And he knows this how? sinkingfeeling Aug 2024 #40
His grandmothers and mother? Kaleva Aug 2024 #44
Men like him are useless and miserable. LiberalBrooke Aug 2024 #41
He adds zero value to society. Sky Jewels Aug 2024 #49
What a creepy weirdo. ZonkerHarris Aug 2024 #45
Does his wife hear the shit he says? SunSeeker Aug 2024 #48
Probably sticks her fingers in her ears DemonGoddess Aug 2024 #54
I feel so sorry for his wife. He's a fool. And "weird". Actually, kind of scary. judesedit Aug 2024 #57
I don't. She has the means to leave him if she finds his behavior spooky3 Aug 2024 #95
How about men who fail the sperm count test? LiberalArkie Aug 2024 #58
Too bad for JD Beck23 Aug 2024 #59
Any woman, of child bearing years or not Skvngr Aug 2024 #60
Ginni Thomas? Ursus Arctos Aug 2024 #66
More confirmation that he B.See Aug 2024 #68
he is in effect saying terrible things about my wife DBoon Aug 2024 #69
The hole this guy is digging for himself just gets deeper and deeper. PatrickforB Aug 2024 #70
JD is a Codifer Aug 2024 #72
I'll be 80 in December AverageOldGuy Aug 2024 #74
MINIMUM Vance doesn't value women and doesn't know it, worst is Vance will chattel slave women with this attitude. This uponit7771 Aug 2024 #75
I know what's going on with JD Beck23 Aug 2024 #76
I'm from Kentucky. Real hillbillies don't pronounce "either" "eye-ther." barbaraann Aug 2024 #82
And MILLIONS of those same Women he is talking about cant WAIT to vote for him. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2024 #85
This clip appears to be from a podcast called "Moment of Truth"... keep_left Aug 2024 #87
Sick puppy REALLY hates his mom Attilatheblond Aug 2024 #89
He is crazy Demovictory9 Aug 2024 #90
When will the press kacekwl Aug 2024 #92
He's a bigger F***k than even TSF. Sounds a lot like projection from a allegorical oracle Aug 2024 #96
no children makes me happy. i just need cats pansypoo53219 Sep 2024 #97
Disgusting ck4829 Sep 2024 #98
Weren't infertile women sent to deserted island work farms in Handmaid's Tale? travelingthrulife Sep 2024 #101

Ocelot II

(122,740 posts)
1. So once we hit menopause we are to be set out to sea on an ice floe, right?
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 01:45 PM
Aug 2024

We can't even be teachers if we never had children, and if we have careers and/or cats but no children we are destructive psychopaths with no purpose in society? Did I get that right?

lastlib

(25,226 posts)
47. Or sent to the death camps........
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:03 PM
Aug 2024

esp. if you're brown, black, or liberal. Or, God forbid, MOOZlim.

This oozehead wants to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency?

Ocelot II

(122,740 posts)
79. But aren't nuns disqualified from being teachers because they didn't have children?
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:49 PM
Aug 2024

So what are the nuns supposed to do?

Lonestarblue

(12,202 posts)
65. Maybe you have some use as a babysitter if you have grandchildren.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:29 PM
Aug 2024

Otherwise, it’s off to the ice floes for you!

Ocelot II

(122,740 posts)
71. If you never had children you won't have grandchildren, so you're already useless.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:38 PM
Aug 2024

And if you can't be a teacher since you never had children, you certainly couldn't be trusted as a babysitter. You're a miserable old psychopath who'd fill the children's minds with subversive notions, like the fact that being a childless career woman with or even without cats can actually be a fulfilling life.

ananda

(31,202 posts)
8. Yes, very damaged and utterly despicable!
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 01:52 PM
Aug 2024

I keep wondering how such damaged, ugly,
and dangerous people have over-populated
our legislative and judicial branches of
government.

They don't deserve it and should never be on
a ballot or list in the first place.

Yavin4

(36,896 posts)
67. It has become a vast collection of broken people from all walks of life.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:30 PM
Aug 2024

Anybody with a grudge is welcome. Anybody looking to get vengeance on those who have wronged them is welcomed.

Yavin4

(36,896 posts)
78. We've been conditioned to believe that money cures all problems.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:49 PM
Aug 2024

We're kept in a constant state of anxiety over money.

If you don't have money, the MAGA media machine tells you that other people (read: immigrants) are the reason why you don't have it.

If you do have money, the MAGA media machine tells you that other people (read: African Americans, the govt., feminists, etc.) are trying to take it away from you.

This constant state of anxiety breaks some people mentally. Trump and MAGA appeal to these people.

Irish_Dem

(63,308 posts)
80. Yes it has a been a ruthless, deliberate psychological operation.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:51 PM
Aug 2024

So the GOP could steal power and wealth.
And our enemies could destroy the US.

hlthe2b

(107,712 posts)
3. DU Ladies? Who would like to hold him... while I smack the living bajeebus out of him? (I will reciprocate)
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 01:45 PM
Aug 2024

I've lost my pacifism reading his bullshit.

Irish_Dem

(63,308 posts)
18. I was just going to post the same thing.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 01:58 PM
Aug 2024

I am a non violent pacifist.

But I would like to smack the crap out of this guy.

Aristus

(69,009 posts)
91. I'm not a lady, but I will happily hold him down so that every lady on DU can reserve their energy
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 05:46 PM
Aug 2024

for smacking the shit out of Douchebeard Scuzzbucket.

zorbasd

(298 posts)
20. The disgrunteled working class
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 02:00 PM
Aug 2024

chose this silicon-valley-facsist-Thiel-bottom-boy over working class Ryan...Amazing!!

Sanity Claws

(22,113 posts)
6. He is a misogynist
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 01:48 PM
Aug 2024

If I had to psychoanalyze him, I'd say he has a lot of mommy issues. JD, go to a shrink to take care of your trauma. Please don't inflict your trauma on us.

barbtries

(30,150 posts)
9. he's sickening.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 01:52 PM
Aug 2024

this man very sincerely hates women, that's been clear, now I see he also hates equality writ large.

it's unthinkable. #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica

republianmushroom

(18,665 posts)
10. Damn, old jd is sure helping the republican party here.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 01:52 PM
Aug 2024

And those woman who vote republican and are "beyond childbearing years are useless and miserable" seem be agreeing with him. They still vote republican. Talk about dumb.

Dave says

(5,007 posts)
25. Iirc, he wrote a cover blurb for Unhuman
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 02:13 PM
Aug 2024

Unhuman out Nazis the Nazis. Really frighteningly despicable. If iirc the thread where I learned of this, the book suggests childless women beyond child-bearing age, LGBTQ+, the whole left wing are “unhuman”, less than human, and should be rounded into camps to be exterminated. Truly evil sh*t, and JD put his stamp of approval on it.

Kid Berwyn

(19,033 posts)
37. Matches up with his owner, Peter Thiel
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 02:49 PM
Aug 2024

NAZI fucker also worked to foist the bastard Blake Masters.

And he owns at least 10% of Zuckerberg.

BattleRow

(1,364 posts)
52. Guess the Catholic nuns
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:09 PM
Aug 2024

better get thee to a convent..oops a lot already are.

Wonder if Opus Dei is onboard with this,also?

appalachiablue

(43,390 posts)
86. We've heard this before -'kinder, kuche und kirke' (children, kitchen
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 05:06 PM
Aug 2024

and church), and keep them 'barefoot and pregnant' and excluded from higher education, career jobs, current affairs and politics.

We know where this leads, Lebensborn if you're female, young and fertile. 'Breeders' is what this miserable misogynist wants.

For undesirables, the disabled, non white, immigrants, lgbtq and 'dissidents,' it's the labor camps or extermination.

Yesterday Vance said 'we need a healthy Ruling Class.'

People who aren't listening better wake up, fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder,_K%C3%BCche,_Kirche

hlthe2b

(107,712 posts)
23. Well, when he (Goddess-willing) loses and heads back to the Senate, I know a few that will school him on a thing
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 02:04 PM
Aug 2024

or 5 million...

Biophilic

(5,247 posts)
26. I have to assume the people who support him have these same values.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 02:14 PM
Aug 2024

Especially friends and his tech buddies like Thiel. These people think like the Taliban. How did we as a nation do this?

wryter2000

(47,671 posts)
28. What a bunch of gobbledy-gook that was
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 02:19 PM
Aug 2024

I couldn't tell you what it meant except that people who disagree with him have different values that led them not to have children, therefore are miserable.

llmart

(16,332 posts)
77. I actually have no idea what he is talking about here.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:47 PM
Aug 2024

Some psychologist or psychiatrist would have a field day analyzing what the hell is wrong with this guy.

SamKnause

(13,993 posts)
30. Sounds like someone has zeroed in on a large group of people he would like to get rid of.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 02:21 PM
Aug 2024

I am in that group. (71 female)

I am not miserable.

I am extremely happy !!!

I guess he is trying to say we are useless and do not matter.

At what age does a man become useless ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

keithbvadu2

(40,915 posts)
32. "Once everybody agrees with me, then everything will finally come full circle, and we'll have a happy, healthy society."
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 02:26 PM
Aug 2024

"Once everybody agrees with me, then everything will finally come full circle, and we'll have a happy, healthy society."

You can't get a much clearer solution than that.

llmart

(16,332 posts)
81. The hallmark of a true narcissist.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:51 PM
Aug 2024

Malignant narcissist chooses another narcissist to be his running mate.

He has the answer to "what is wrong in our society". They're always putting down our country. To use their famous words, "if you don't like it move to Russia." He and his idol and their MAGAt followers are what's wrong with this country.

tanyev

(45,267 posts)
33. ORLY? I feel like my life really got going once I was free
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 02:27 PM
Aug 2024

of the burden of the monthly menstrual cycle. And the last few years of that were tough—my iron levels were constantly low. Even without any children/grandchildren to consume my time, my days are busy and filled with things I enjoy doing.

What’s JD doing these days? Making a lot of awkward public appearances that seem to be making him miserable and struggling for meaning.

KentuckyWoman

(6,937 posts)
36. That man needs to find a better class of women.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 02:37 PM
Aug 2024

If I ever have the misfortune of meeting him in person, it will not go well.

Here in the old lady village we "grandmas" put on our red and purple ridiculous looking outfits and meet for tea ever month to work out various charitable endeavors. Some of these women are pushing 100 - and some never had kids either. They are still out helping people. He needs to come meet us and stop hanging out with the miserable hateful wenches he has been keeping company with. We'll even loan him a better kind of red hat.

Sky Jewels

(8,856 posts)
53. It's not the women's fault.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:10 PM
Aug 2024

He hates all non-penis-havers because they committed the unforgivable crime of being born not male.

Sky Jewels

(8,856 posts)
49. He adds zero value to society.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:07 PM
Aug 2024

He’s a parasite who should be dropped off in the middle of the Sahara Desert or the Pacific Ocean.

spooky3

(36,874 posts)
95. I don't. She has the means to leave him if she finds his behavior
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 07:10 PM
Aug 2024

Repugnant. She has a Yale law degree and experience. So I view her as complicit.

Beck23

(329 posts)
59. Too bad for JD
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:20 PM
Aug 2024

What he doesn't realize is that he is not authorized to criticize everyone who is not a tradwife.

In fact, there is a whole lot not to like about JD and men like him who think women's only purpose in life is to be baby machines.

JD is the worst of the worst of women haters. It's no wonder his best friend and sugar daddy is a gay guy (Thiel).

Skvngr

(48 posts)
60. Any woman, of child bearing years or not
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:21 PM
Aug 2024

Should be repulsed by this as should every man who has a mother. JFC these people are sick.

Ursus Arctos

(66 posts)
66. Ginni Thomas?
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:30 PM
Aug 2024

I wonder how Vance feels about childless Ginni Thomas who prioritized her career as an attorney and insurrectionist. Is she also a miserable, unfulfilled useless eater? Or is she okay because she is actively trying to take away women's rights?

B.See

(4,327 posts)
68. More confirmation that he
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:33 PM
Aug 2024

like many of his ilk, are toxic, misogynistic, women hating pieces of shite.

Explains why he'd prefer couches. They don't talk back.

DBoon

(23,410 posts)
69. he is in effect saying terrible things about my wife
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:37 PM
Aug 2024

who I can assure you is anything but useless and miserable.

PatrickforB

(15,158 posts)
70. The hole this guy is digging for himself just gets deeper and deeper.
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:38 PM
Aug 2024

I can't imagine anyone who would ever vote for this guy. Ever.

Codifer

(869 posts)
72. JD is a
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:39 PM
Aug 2024

deranged social darwinist.

I had thought them to be near extinct since reproduction is such a problem for them.

Near everyone will tell them to get fucked but there are none who are willing to help.

AverageOldGuy

(2,435 posts)
74. I'll be 80 in December
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:42 PM
Aug 2024

As best I recall, about 78 years ago I learned a critical life lesson: DO NOT PISS OF THE WOMENFOLK. JUST DON'T DO IT.

Guess ol' JD never learned that. He's about the learn it now.

uponit7771

(92,327 posts)
75. MINIMUM Vance doesn't value women and doesn't know it, worst is Vance will chattel slave women with this attitude. This
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:42 PM
Aug 2024

... is bad, really bad.

Beck23

(329 posts)
76. I know what's going on with JD
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:47 PM
Aug 2024

He wants to punish all women who are not mothering because his own mother was abscent. He is mad at his mother and taking it out on all women who choose not to have children.

barbaraann

(9,289 posts)
82. I'm from Kentucky. Real hillbillies don't pronounce "either" "eye-ther."
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 04:52 PM
Aug 2024

I'll be he doesn't pronounce theater or groceries like a real hillbilly EE-ther.

keep_left

(2,663 posts)
87. This clip appears to be from a podcast called "Moment of Truth"...
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 05:16 PM
Aug 2024

...which is ostensibly a production of yet another far-right "think" tank, "American Moment". They are one of the new breed of far-right organizations which are MAGA-oriented, with Catholic radtrads in leadership positions.

As for Vance, he's simply plagiarizing de rigueur misogynist garbage from the MRA/PUA "movement" (e.g. 4chan, Roosh V) that's deader than disco--yet Vance is still out there, slaving away like a stevedore in his attempt to defend the indefensible.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/american-moment
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Moment

Attilatheblond

(5,052 posts)
89. Sick puppy REALLY hates his mom
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 05:43 PM
Aug 2024

He has enough money to afford therapy for HIS issues. We The People are not interested in joining him in his self perpetuated misogyny just so he can feel a little less weird.

kacekwl

(7,839 posts)
92. When will the press
Sat Aug 31, 2024, 05:53 PM
Aug 2024

ask him in person to explain this belief ? Preferably by a professional accomplished woman with no children.

travelingthrulife

(1,465 posts)
101. Weren't infertile women sent to deserted island work farms in Handmaid's Tale?
Mon Sep 2, 2024, 01:18 PM
Sep 2024

Any day now all my money will be electronically turned over to my closest male relative.

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