what do republicans and christians have against women

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

for whatever reason over the last couple of years right wingers have been against women having rights. they have been saying there not smart enough to vote and they are here to take care of children. i thought this country ditched that mindset several decades ago. whats up with all the random misogyny. its like we made it to the year 2000 and started backtracking. its crazy.

As a US citizen and a democrat, I can say that republicans in this country, I don't think, is mysogynistic. There are as many women leaders and spokesman in that party as there are men (except on FOX news, where they seem to prefer putting blonde women in front of the camera unless the man is blowhardy enough to be put on the air.)
There are, however, a few mysogynistic individuals in the republican party (like Rush Limbaugh) but I don't think mysogyny is something that being a republican represents.

Now, however, there is, these days, a sharp divide between most republicans and the current state of hte republican national party. Repubicans are reasonable, rational people (as much as anyone else is), but the GOP and many of its leaders appear to be bat-shit insane.

[Entropist]

Well, you've got Ann Coulter claiming she wants the 19th amendment repealed (she has said this repeatedly) and for years Rush Limbaugh has referred to anyone even remotely concerned about women's rights as "femi-nazis." These represent the more extreme which help to make less sexist ideas more palatable (see: Overton Window), such as reducing pregnancy leave, the dismissal of the problems single mothers face (and besides, they deserve it!), opposition to anything that smacks of "pro-choice," etc. After all, this all falls under the category of "Traditional Family Values" (yearning for a time when negroes weren't uppity and women knew their place, and atheists and gays didn't exist... yeah, right).

It seems contradictory to have women running for office and at the same time be in favor of policies that would reduce women's rights or place them in a lower status, but then I'm not familiar with many (if any) women Republicans that are pro-choice, for example (Olympia Snowe is the only one that comes to mind, and many Re-thugs don't trust her anyway, saying she is "too liberal," etc.).

Re-thugs don't mind women being in their ranks-- it is great PR (it was not a coincidence that McCain chose Palin as a running mate after Clinton lost the primaries). The only catch is that anything perceived as "feminism" is baaaaad.

[lrh9]

When I hear what Republicans and conservatives have to say I don't hear someone who I can honestly call my fellow American. I hear man's inhumanity to man and woman. I don't know that I can understand it. I don't know that I even want to understand it. In the end I think it is just simple power hunger. Only a selfish, insecure man would want to strip women of political power and exert political control over them.