Hard-right movements are based on exclusion and the construction of
hierarchies.
Friend,
Hard-right movements are based on exclusion and the construction of
hierarchies.
In other words, they want to revive an older social order, before the
Civil Rights Movement, women's and gay liberation movements, and
other social and political transformations upset what was a thoroughly
white-dominated, patriarchal society. Gender, then - how it is
understood, practiced and described in our laws - is clearly of
central concern to the hard right. Their goal is to uphold male
supremacy
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, a movement that scholar of right-wing movements Chelsea Ebin
describes
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as "a complex system that serves to assert, support, and
promote the supposed superiority of men," and subjugate women,
trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people.
Given the hard right's actions over roughly the past year,
it's impossible to ignore the centrality of male supremacy
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in the movement. Even far-right extremists have noted the shift.
"I've noticed in the last three or four years, there seems
to be a lot of generalized resentment of women on the right, like
beyond typical," white nationalist podcaster Joseph Jordan
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said in a July 2022 podcast, calling the Republican Party's
positions akin to the "Reddit Manosphere," a violently
misogynistic online community
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.
Politicians, influencers, grassroots activists and members of
extremist groups have collectively embarked on a campaign to strip
women of their rights and force them into subservient societal and
familial roles; demonize LGBTQ+ people, deny trans people access to
spaces that conform to their gender identity and refuse them crucial
medical care; and ban schools from even acknowledging the existence of
LGBTQ+ people and families. This is a program - championed in
state houses and in protests in the streets - to force people
into heteronormative, patriarchal social structures.
Male supremacy has always played a role in right-wing movements. But
now it has taken center stage, lending the hard-right ideological
coherence while acting as a tremendously mobilizing force. This comes
at a time when the hard right is increasingly embracing
authoritarianism. Its followers are less willing to compromise and
increasingly argue they must use a heavy hand to contend with the
people they view as political enemies, which include anyone who upsets
"traditional" gender roles and family structures. Not only
is the movement bearing down on those who resist male supremacism, it
also seems increasingly willing to condone intimidation, force and
violence to suppress and silence them.
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