Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) donned a red “A” on her shirt Tuesday after her vote to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) left her feeling “demonized” on Capitol Hill, she said. “I’m wea…

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) donned a red “A” on her shirt Tuesday after her vote to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) left her feeling “demonized” on Capitol Hill, she said.

“I’m wearing the scarlet letter after the week that I just had, last week, being a woman up here and being demonized for my vote and for my voice,” Mace told reporters, apparently referencing the 19th century novel in which the protagonist was condemned to wear a red “A” — a “scarlet letter” — after becoming pregnant out of wedlock.

What??

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    512·
    1 year ago

    A for “attention whore” :P

    But honestly: cry more. You’re a member of the Republican Party, Mace. You know who they are and what their agenda is. None of this should be surprising to you.

    • RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year ago

      Also “Amnesia” when she just kind of forgot about Gymbag Jordan’s coverup of molested wrestlers in an interview the other day.

    • tburkhol@lemmy.world
      17·
      1 year ago

      You see, the original scarlet letter was put on some woman just fighting for her freedom in an oppressive society. She was a pioneer of female empowerment in a patriarchal society, just like Mace, who’s being oppressed for exercising her first amendment right to say “no” to functioning government.

  • Chozo@kbin.social
    28·
    1 year ago

    This will become the new 1984.

    By that I mean, a book that Republicans haven’t read but love to reference with what they think it means.

  • Kalkaline @leminal.space
    22·
    1 year ago

    I would never shame a woman for becoming pregnant outside of wedlock. It’s silly. I would instead hope that the woman has legal access to effective birth control methods if they choose to use them, legal and safe access to abortions if they so choose, and I would hope she has access to prenatal care as well as healthcare for her and the baby postpartum. I would also hope the mother and child have available social safety nets that cover their basic needs for life including access to education.

    • 30mag@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      1 year ago

      Looking at her wikipedia page, it seems to me that her position could be a lot worse.

      In 2022 she voted for H.R. 8373 (“The Right to Contraception Act”), a bill designed “to protect a person’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception”.
      …
      In 2021, Mace was among a handful of Republican representatives who did not sign onto an amicus brief to overturn Roe v. Wade.
      …
      In an interview on Face the Nation, she said she disagreed with the recently passed abortion ban in Florida, which was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis: “Signing a six-week ban that puts women who are victims of rape and girls who are victims of incest and in a hard spot isn’t the way to change hearts and minds. It’s not compassionate. The requirements [DeSantis] has for rape victims are too much, not something that I support. It’s a non-starter. I am a victim of rape. I was raped by a classmate at the age of 16. I am very wary, and the devil is always in the details, but we’ve got to show more care and concern and compassion for women who’ve been raped. I don’t like that this bill was signed in the dead of night”.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Mace#Abortion_and_contraception

  • LemmyFeed@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 year ago

    Half the government are older than dirt and the other half are living in an immature fantasy land like they’re back in junior high.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 year ago

    I mean, it’s kind of appropriate? She fucked around and now she’s finding out that the Republican rage cycle eats its own.