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‘Women Must Be Supervised’: The Christian Nationalist Doctrine Warping U.S. Politics | Andra Watkins & Sam Osterhout
Christian nationalism reframes control as protection to justify restricting women’s autonomy.
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Misogynist media ecosystems use theology as a pretext for dominance, punishment, and public shaming.
Extremist gender hierarchies inevitably expand outward, targeting men once women’s freedoms are constrained.
Cultural silence from men enables these systems, making everyday pushback an essential act of resistance.
Sam Osterhout and Andra Watkins lay down a challenge that cuts past politeness and straight into the architecture of control that hides inside supposedly noble language about “protection.” The deeper you sit with Andra’s argument, the harder it is to ignore how ancient hierarchies get repackaged into modern policy, turning women’s autonomy into something conditional, supervised, and endlessly second-guessed. Misogyny isn’t portrayed as a fringe phenomenon here but as a cultural muscle memory—one that rewards silence, excuses hostility, and trains people to mistake dominance for stability. Systems built on subjugation metastasize, expanding their demands until everyone is forced into roles designed to keep power unchallenged. That’s why calling out seemingly small acts of disrespect becomes a political act, a refusal to let cruelty masquerade as order or tradition.
Tune in for a conversation that refuses to let any of us pretend we don’t see what’s happening.
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