JD Vance is feeling the ‘wrath of every woman’: Julie Cross
You know you’re in real trouble when you’ve angered Taylor Swift’s fans, writes Julie Cross, as she reflects on just how quickly things can change in US politics in a week.
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You know you’re in real trouble when you’ve angered the Swifties, Taylor Swift’s loyal band of fans.
That’s what happened to Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, after his offensive comments about “childless cat ladies” resurfaced this week.
In a Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson in 2021, Vance said, “We’re effectively run in this country — via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs — by a bunch of 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.
“How does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
Perhaps Vance, who is married with three children, was referring to people like Democrat Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden’s number two, who is hoping to beat Trump in this year’s US elections.
The former prosecutor does not have children of her own, but has shared the parenting of her husband’s two children.
While the majority of American adults do become parents at some point, four in 10 women in the US under 49 are childless. In Australia, it’s about one in four.
That’s a lot of people Vance just upset, not to mention all of Taylor Swift’s fans who were quick to defend her childless cat lady status.
Last year she was pictured on the cover of Time Magazine with her ragdoll cat draped over her shoulders.
While Swift may go on to have children, others like Friends star Jennifer Aniston, pointed out that some are not childless by choice. The star has spoken of her failed IVF treatments.
In Australia one in 20 children are born thanks to IVF, so many women, and men, know the struggle.
Proud childless cat ladies have been taking to social media this week to out themselves.
And women who do have children have come out to denounce the comments as well.
Even Meghan McCain, a US conservative cheerleader, slammed him, saying, “This ‘childless women’ comment by JD Vance has made so many waves with so many different friends of mine for its insensitivity and cruelty to women”.
It just goes to show how quickly things can change in politics. Last week Vance was basking in the glow of the Republican convention, this week he’s feeling the wrath of every woman in America.
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