When it comes to the modern Overton Window, some topics are understandably thorny and difficult to broach.
Repealing the 19th Amendment? That’s going to be a tough sell, to the right or (especially) left, no matter how often women disproportionately vote for Democratic policies after their maternal instincts get preyed upon by the left.
But when it comes to something like traditional gender roles or societal duties? This writer still isn’t quite sure why the left screeches so loudly about it.
Take, for instance, a recent meltdown on ultra-progressive ABC daytime talk show, “The View.”
The lady co-hosts of “The View” dedicated an entire segment attacking comments made by conservative content creator Isabel Brown at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
And what, pray tell, did Brown say at CPAC that got “The View” in such a tizzy? Having the gall to suggest that the best thing a woman can do is be a mother.
“If you’re not encouraging your children to grow up and have the courage to get married and have kids — more kids than they can afford, before they think they’re ready — it’s high time to start,” Brown said.
She added: “It is these choices, like deleting our dating apps and quitting birth control and saying ‘I do’ at the altar that ultimately trickles down into the political policies that we will see save our country.”
She’s right, but even if you disagree with her, it’s not like Brown was saying women should lose their right to vote.
Granted, you wouldn’t have been able to tell based on the way “The View” responded.
Whoopi Goldberg, unsurprisingly, kicked off this meltdown by equating it to something about racism?
“Okay,” Goldberg began. “I just want to say, years ago they used to come after women of color and accuse women of color of doing this very thing.”
Huh? What? Alas, her fellow co-hosts weren’t any better.
“My ultimate beef with this is that it wraps a woman’s worth up in her ovaries in a way that for too long has happened,” said Sara Haines. “The whole women’s movement wass not about bucking the trend of staying at home or loving tradition.
“It was giving women a choice to do what they wanted, and that’s what this is, too. Marriage, children — it’s a choice.”
Haines added: “Most women I know, if they had a great candidate or partner might want to be married. Maybe they don’t. The fact we keep putting this on women, that their only worth in society, politics, policy is if they produce a baby or have a husband is the stupidest, most old-fashioned thing. We have come too far.”
Just to dismantle Haines’ strawman for a second, let the record show that Brown implied that this was the best worth a woman can have to society — not the “only” one.
“The world has over 8 billion people,” Haines continued. “We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies.”
Ah, there’s some of that anti-natalism that feminists are known for. Look, first of all, there’s real reason to believe that there are not 8 billion people in this world. Given that countries have real incentives to inflate their global census totals, are we really just going to trust a Chinese or Russian or North Korean headcount?
But even if there were 8 billion people on this planet, there is mounting and concerning evidence that it’s simply not enough.
Catastrophically, America has a starkly declining population, as pointed out by the Congressional Budget Office. While it may not be as bad as South Korea, which appears headed for a genuine extinction-level issue given the country’s non-existent birthrates, it’s still not sustainable and well below the rate of replacement.
Co-host Ana Navarro, meanwhile, showed that old dogs really can’t learn new tricks, and dipped into her well-documented misandry, asking, “Where is the call to responsibility for the men who help make these children?”
Oh, brother. Brown had been discussing women… I’m sure her thoughts on the roles and duties of men agree that they should shoulder some responsibility when new life is brought into the world. Way for Navarro to attack a point that Brown didn’t make.
And then there’s Sunny Hostin, perhaps the biggest and most unhinged race baiter on this show — which is quite a feat.
To her infinitesimal credit, Hostin didn’t make this about race, but rather an affordability issue. And she almost makes a good point.
Just kidding.
“I think it’s really reckless to be suggesting that people should have more children when you now know in this country there’s this affordability crisis,” Hostin said. “And for a two-person household, a married household, you need over $400,000 for childcare. Over $400,00!
“Most people don’t make over $400,000.”
It’s funny. When I pull numbers out of my butt at work, my boss usually frowns on it and corrects me. When Hostin does it, an audience of seals claps along with it — and I genuinely have no clue where her fear-mongering $400,000 figure came from.
From personal experience, I can attest that year-around day cares generally do not come close to costing $33,333 a month. That’s beyond laughable and utterly disconnected from reality. Could a day care cost $400,000? Maybe in Monaco, sure. But here in America? Nah.
You can watch the entire 6-minute trainwreck for yourself below:
At some point, the outrage stops being about what was actually said and starts revealing what can’t be tolerated: the idea that motherhood might be not just valid, but virtuous, or even foundational.
What played out on “The View” was a reflexive rejection of anything that challenges decades of recycled feminist talking points that treat family, duty, and sacrifice as relics of a less “enlightened” past. But repeating something for 50 years doesn’t make it true — it just makes it familiar.
And that’s the real disconnect.
You can insist that fulfillment is purely individual, that children are optional accessories, and that society has no stake in any of it, but the real world has a way of calling that bluff. Declining birth rates, fraying families, and a growing sense of cultural aimlessness don’t just happen in a vacuum.
You don’t have to agree with Isabel Brown to at least engage honestly with her argument. But if the response is to mock, distort, and panic at the mere suggestion that raising the next generation actually matters, then the meltdown says a lot more about the critics than it does about her.
Oh, but don’t take my word for it. Isabel responded to the “godless, anti-human propaganda” from “The View.”
“I’m truly sad for the hate and contempt The View shows toward one of the most beautiful things about womanhood,” Brown told EW via statement. “Their godless, anti-human propaganda is heartbreaking, but in today’s society, sadly not shocking. They shriek like demons at the simple, joyful, timeless truth that young women should want to get married and have babies.
“Family is the greatest threat to their ideology, and they know it.”
Brown added: “Young Americans — reject this with all your heart!”
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