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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Helen Lewis, The Atlantic: Douglas Wilson has a modest proposal to improve American life: He wants to repeal the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the vote. In his ideal system, “we would do it in our politics the same way we do it in our church structure,” he told me recently.

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Wilson believes that women should "not ordinarily" hold political office, and should never serve in combat roles in the military. Husbands should have dominion over misbehaving wives' weight, spending habits, and choice of television programs. His uncompromising vision for America was once considered marginal, the conservative writer Karen Swallow Prior told me. Since his elevation by [Pete] Hegseth, however, "no one can credibly say that Doug Wilson is fringe anymore."

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Having just undermined the Voting Rights Act for blacks, it's no surprise that Republicans now want to quash Women's Rights, too.

Make America the 1800's Again!

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-14 12:02 PM | Reply

A long-term goal, the repeal of the 19th Amendment. In the short term, this blockhead can help repeal the laws of thermodynamics--a task with which he will have more success. Wilson and those in agreement with his thought process must find themselves angry and scared all the live-long day, with all those uppity women folk about...

#2 | Posted by catdog at 2026-05-14 12:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.

#3 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-05-14 12:47 PM | Reply

www.reddit.com

#4 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-05-14 12:49 PM | Reply

#4 | POSTED BY JOHN_SAVAGE

If you want a date, you must learn how not to be frightened of women.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-14 12:56 PM | Reply

Such sad, pathetic "men" that they need to enforce their "superiority" by some supposed God's will.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-14 12:57 PM | Reply

Having just undermined the Voting Rights Act for blacks, it's no surprise that Republicans now want to quash Women's Rights, too.
Make America the 1800's Again!

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-14 12:02 PM | Reply | Flag

Well, many of them do seem to desire a civil war.

#7 | Posted by MBlue at 2026-05-14 12:59 PM | Reply

#3

Never happened. Paul was writing a letter to his young acolyte minister telling him not to let the women in THAT church, many of whom provided funds, push him around. It was never meant as some overall edict to all churches.

www.google.com

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-14 01:02 PM | Reply

Women reporters are very stupid and ask very stupid questions!
Apparently.

Answer to a woman's question about renovation costs at the White House: "I doubled the size of it, you dumb person... You are not a smart person"

Same day to a different woman reporter: "If you want to do that, then you're a stupid person. And you happen to be. I mean, I know you very well".

Trumpy calls Kaitlan Collins "stupid and nasty" any chance he gets.

Kamala was a "dummy".

Sorry that journalist Mika Brzezinski is an "off the wall, a neurotic and not very bright mess"

These comments are part of a broader, documented pattern of gendered insults, which have included referring to female journalists as "piggy," "ugly," and "disgraceful."

The President's words are a disgrace. (Because the President is a fool?) But unfortunately they matter. The "bully pulpit" is very influential. But you are not supposed to use it to bully everyone!

Fun fact. "Bully" used to mean "superb or wonderful"!

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-05-14 01:05 PM | Reply

Wilson believes that women should "not ordinarily" hold political office, and should never serve in combat roles in the military.

These are mainstream Republican values.
Something like 90% of elected Republicans are men.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-14 01:17 PM | Reply

"we would do it in our politics the same way we do it in our church structure," he told me recently.

Religion is evil.

#11 | Posted by qcp at 2026-05-14 01:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#11

Theism can be used for evil, as can atheism.

It was State sanctioned atheism that resulted in the deaths of between 60 and 100 million people in just the last century alone.

Men can be evil no matter their beliefs.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-14 01:42 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

"It was State sanctioned atheism that resulted in the deaths of between 60 and 100 million people in just the last century alone."

Was it though?

Was it state sanctioned theism that resulted in ethnically cleansimg the Americas? The Pope divining South America between Spain and Portugal, for example.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-14 02:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The vast majority of Trump voting white women would gladly give up their right to vote.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-14 02:08 PM | Reply

atheism that resulted in the deaths of between 60 and 100 million

You keep posting these statistics.

But the more you do the more they seem made up as a way to convince theists Religion is not all that bad.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-14 02:10 PM | Reply

#15

"Mass deaths in the 20th century, often estimated between 60 and 100 million or more, are attributed to policies enacted by communist, state-atheist regimes, notably under Joseph Stalin in the USSR and Mao Zedong in China.

These regimes promoted a state-mandated secularism, aiming to eliminate religious influence, which resulted in significant mortality through persecution, forced labor, and famine."

www.google.com

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-14 02:17 PM | Reply

Grab 'em by the pushy.

#17 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-05-14 02:23 PM | Reply

"attributed to policies enacted by communist, state-atheist regimes"

So we can likewise say the ethnic cleansing of the New World was attributed to policies enacted by Christian regimes, right Corky?

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-14 02:39 PM | Reply

At least now the Pubs are being honest. They always touted "Traditional Values" and then voted women into office. Never made sense to me, seemed a bit hypocritical. I'm glad he's saying these things.

#19 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2026-05-14 02:40 PM | Reply

Yeah, manifest destiny wasn't exactly an atheist run operation...

#20 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-05-14 02:47 PM | Reply

#18

Atheists got more done in one century than theists did in several.

I said both could be used as evil... I think I'll stand by that.

#21 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-14 02:54 PM | Reply

"Atheists got more done in one century than theists did in several."

Did they?
Tell us about the continents the atheists ethnically cleansed.
North America, South America, Australia. Ethnically cleansed by Christians.

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-14 03:09 PM | Reply

So we can likewise say the ethnic cleansing of the New World was attributed to policies enacted by Christian regimes, right Corky?

I don't believe the policies of the newcomers were to transmit diseases that the natives couldn't handle.

Epidemics of smallpox, typhus, influenza, diphtheria, and measles swept the Americas subsequent to European contact, killing between 10 million and 100 million people, up to 95% of the indigenous population of the Americas.
en.wikipedia.org

The ratio of deaths from disease vs "policy" should help you understand the difference between atheists and theists.

But hey you like lying to yourself, so don't let facts get in the way.

#23 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-05-14 03:12 PM | Reply

"I said both could be used as evil"

Oh so atheism isn't evil, per se.
And religion isn't good, per se.

Yet you routinely mention that atheists killed 60 million people, about once a month.
And I don't think I've ever heard you say how many millions the religious people killed.

#24 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-14 03:12 PM | Reply

#22 | Posted by snoofy

I get it, you hate your Western heritage. But it replaced something much worse. What's your alternative? A proven method of policies that killed millions of people? All in the name of the State?

#25 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-05-14 03:14 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#22

And here I'm trying to give compliments that atheism is more efficient as an evil used by evil men.

Some people just can't take compliments!

btw, as it turns out:

"The Doctrine of Discovery, a series of papal decrees beginning in 1452, served as the legal justification for European colonization, resulting in the deaths of tens of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas due to disease, violence, and forced labor.

A 2018 study estimated that 55 million indigenous people died following the European conquest"

www.google.com

Pikers!

#26 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-14 03:15 PM | Reply

"A 2018 study estimated that 55 million indigenous people died following the European conquest"

Entire continents had their indigenous cultures and people eradicated, never to exist again.
Atheists have never been able to pull off annoying of that scale or magnitude.
To be fair, to your point, they've only had the chance for a century or so.

Simply being an atheist was enough to get you killed. Heck simply being the wrong flavor of Christian got you killed.
How many people did the Christians kill in the history of Christianity, for rejecting their version of Christianity?
I asked the AI. It included The Holocaust, but not the Holodomor. Sorry if the formatting is jacked.

Estimates for the number of people killed in the name of Christianity, specifically for rejecting their version of the faith or through religiously motivated violence, vary widely depending on the scope of events included. A conservative subtotal based on explicit numerical ranges from historical events such as the Crusades, Inquisition, witch hunts, and forced conversions in the Americas and Africa is approximately 56 - 84 million deaths.
Key events and their estimated death tolls include:
The Taiping Rebellion: 20 - 30 million deaths, involving mass displacement and community destruction.
Religious wars in Europe: 6 - 12 million deaths, including famine, disease, and social collapse.
The Crusades: 1 - 3 million documented or estimated deaths, plus displacement and enslavement.
Charlemagne's wars of conversion: 100,000 - 200,000 deaths, along with forced conversions.
Hussite Wars: 100,000 - 200,000 deaths, devastating Bohemian society.
Peasant revolts and suppression: 100,000 - 200,000 deaths.
Suppressions of heretical movements: 200,000 - 1 million for the Albigensian Crusade alone, plus tens of thousands of Huguenots.
Forced conversions in Africa and Asia: 10 - 15 million deaths.
The Black Holocaust (Transatlantic Slave Trade): 12 - 15 million deaths, legitimized by papal bulls.
The Inquisition: 15,000 - 25,000 documented executions, with many more imprisoned or tortured.
Witch hunts: 40,000 - 60,000 documented deaths.
Jewish pogroms and anti-semitic policies: Tens of thousands of deaths, leading to expulsions and ghettoization.
Holocaust complicity: 6 million Jewish victims, with Christian anti-Semitism noted as a contributing factor.

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-14 03:41 PM | Reply

1 Timothy 2:12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.

#28 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-05-14 03:46 PM | Reply

If they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home, since it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.

#29 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-05-14 03:46 PM | Reply

You're stretching to make a point no one is arguing.

As I said, both atheism and theism can be used for evil purposes.

"The Taiping Rebellion (1850"1864) was directly inspired by a unique, syncretic interpretation of Christianity promoted by Hong Xiuquan, who believed himself to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ.

This movement aimed to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and create a "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" based on radical social equality.

The Leader's Vision: Hong Xiuquan, after failing civil service examinations, was influenced by Protestant missionary pamphlets, leading to visions where he believed he was mandated by God to reform China and eliminate the Manchu-led Qing government."
www.google.com

Damn those insidious pamphlets!


#30 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-14 03:57 PM | Reply

"As I said, both atheism and theism can be used for evil purposes."

You haven't said if they can they both be used for good purposes...

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-14 04:03 PM | Reply

The fascinating thing about women is that most don't really have any thoughts of their own. Either they get their positions from friends and whats societally acceptable or the man in their life assuming they respect him.

They're generally fluid and will just go along to get along with whatever benefits them most. It's why single women are overwhelmingly liberal while married women skew exactly opposite.

#32 | Posted by THEBULL at 2026-05-14 04:08 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The fascinating thing about women is that most don't really have any thoughts of their own.
#32 | POSTED BY THEBULL

Have you ever met a woman?

#33 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-14 04:19 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#32 Flag:

#34 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-14 04:23 PM | Reply

#32 Flag:

#35 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-14 04:25 PM | Reply

The fascinating thing about women is that most don't really have any thoughts of their own.
#32 | POSTED BY THEBULL

Have you ever met a woman?
#33 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

Ain't any folk a the female persuasion ... there.

#36 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-14 04:28 PM | Reply

*Ooooohbabymewannawomansooobaaaaaaaad*
#32 | POSTED BY THEBULL

Oh, my.
~ Margaret Atwood

#37 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-14 04:30 PM | Reply

#31

I considered the inverse pretty obvious; atheism can be used for questioning all sorts of beliefs... including agnosticism one supposes.

;;

But this thread is about THEBULL and all the women who would rather die than go near him.

#38 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-14 04:42 PM | Reply

#27 Snoofy says, "Heck simply being the wrong flavor of Christian got you killed."

The Best God Joke Ever
by Emo Phillips

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"

He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"

He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"

Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.

#39 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-14 04:44 PM | Reply

#39

Never take a Baptist fishing with you; he'll drink all your beer.

Take two Baptists, and they'll keep an eye on each other so you can drink all your beer!

#40 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-14 04:46 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#40 :-)

#41 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-14 04:54 PM | Reply

"Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.

That is such a classic.

#42 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-14 05:03 PM | Reply

Well, looks like the typical MAGAT incels have shown up to prove to everyone it's not THEIR fault they're sad, lonely little shitheads. BWAHAHA

#43 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-05-14 05:16 PM | Reply

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