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Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican | US news | The Guardian

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A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldview On the most recent episode of her YouTube show, the rightwing commentator Brett Cooper joined the rest of the world in jeering Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez’s brief flight to space. “These women were completely dependent on men who built this spacecraft,” she said with a cheeky smirk. “Frankly, we all are, because men built civilization. They built the homes that we live in, they built the studio that I am recording in … the spaceships that all of these rich celebrities are flying around in.” The difference between Cooper and feminists, she says, “is I choose to acknowledge that and celebrate it and be grateful”. The Blue Origin flight was prime fodder for Cooper, a bubbly, fast-talking 23-year-old with silky espresso brown curls and colorful Pinterest-friendly prints on the wall behind her. She posts biweekly vide

Like their manosphere cohorts, commentators and outlets in the womanosphere repackage rightwing messaging in an approachable way. Composite: Guardian Design View image in fullscreen Like their manosphere cohorts, commentators and outlets in the womanosphere repackage rightwing messaging in an approachable way. Composite: Guardian Design US news This article is more than 1 year old Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican This article is more than 1 year old A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens,

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