subservient women
Summary (for time-stressed readers): Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a video advocating repeal of women's suffrage. His office confirmed he "appreciates" its message. The pastors in it—including Hegseth's adviser—preach that women's equality defies "god's order." This rhetoric now plays in Pentagon prayer sessions.
It's part of a broader Republican strategy: JD Vance says childless women shouldn't vote equally. Josh Hawley blames women's liberation for "ruining" men. Project 2025 defines women's place as motherhood. They've blocked the Equal Rights Amendment and killed the Violence Against Women Act.
Like Roe's fall, they chip away piece by piece, hiding authoritarianism behind "values." Women's success threatens their order. The backlash isn't about failure—it's fear of progress.
Now, the real deal:
"All of Christ for All of Life," said Pete Hegseth.
I'm eighty. When I was born, women had been voting for just twenty-four years. My mother's mother couldn't vote until she was thirty-one. I thought we'd settled this before I learned to walk.
I was wrong.
trump's formula is simple: hire criminals who need protection, the stupid and unqualified who won't question orders, and woman-haters eager to dismantle women's rights. Gaetz, the alleged sex trafficker. Hegseth, the drunk who bankrupted every organization he touched and held meetings in strip clubs. Before his government job he couldn't manage fifty employees without wrecking them; today he's responsible for almost three million. RFK, the brain-worm conspiracy theorist who thinks Wi-Fi causes cancer. Every appointment a wrecking ball aimed at democracy—especially at women's place in it.
These are the men deciding women's futures. Not despite their failures—because of them. Broken men break things. That's why he hires them.
Hegseth, our Secretary of Defense, just amplified a video calling for repeal of the 19th Amendment. Not in 1920. Not in 1950. Last week. The man running our military shared voices saying women shouldn't vote. His spokesman confirmed Hegseth "very much appreciates" these teachings. The United States should be a Christian country, they say. That's not faith; it's a blueprint for exclusion.
This isn't fringe anymore. It's Pentagon policy.
The pastor in Hegseth's video, Doug Wilson, doesn't whisper his message. He preaches: women voting destroyed America; women working destroyed families; women's equality destroyed god's order. Wilson's theology didn't start as Christian nationalism—it began with 19th-century Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper, who declared Christ sovereign over all human existence. Kuyper meant theology, not totalitarianism. Wilson turned it into both.
Hegseth's personal pastor—brought monthly to the Pentagon for prayer sessions—teaches the same doctrine. They broadcast it on internal military networks, to hundreds of thousands of women in uniform. Wilson's "All of Christ for All of Life" excludes non-Christians by definition, demotes women to second-class citizenship, and erases anyone who doesn't fit their biblical blueprint.
JD Vance, our Vice President, told Tucker Carlson that childless women are "sociopathic" and shouldn't have equal votes because they have "no stake" in the future. He proposed extra votes for parents—meaning men, since they're pushing women out of public life.
Josh Hawley's book argues women's liberation "ruined" men. Madison Cawthorn called women "earthen vessels sanctified by Almighty God"—not citizens, vessels. Heritage's Project 2025 doesn't just ban abortion—it defines women's primary purpose as motherhood, their place as home.
The Republican conference killed the Violence Against Women Act, voted against the Equal Rights Amendment, blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act. Every vote a step back. Every bill a door closing.
Look at their heroes: Orbán, erasing women from public life in Hungary. Putin, decriminalizing domestic violence. Andrew Tate, preaching women are property. Matt Walsh, calling women's liberation "one of the worst things to happen to the world."
This isn't hyperbole. These are their words. Their policies. Their appointments.
When Amy Coney Barrett wouldn't say Griswold was settled law, she wasn't coy. Griswold legalized birth control—for married couples—in 1965. They're coming for that too. Clarence Thomas said so in his Dobbs concurrence: contraception, same-sex marriage, every privacy right. All on the chopping block.
Mississippi's trying to revive the Comstock Act—1873, banned mailing birth-control information. Missouri tried to ban women from crossing state lines for abortion. Texas puts bounties on women seeking healthcare. They're not stopping at Roe. They're going back a century.
The 19th Amendment passed by one vote. Tennessee's Harry Burn switched sides because his mother wrote him: "Be a good boy and help Mrs. Catt." That's how close we came to never getting it. That's how fragile it's always been.
Now they're testing its foundations. "Maybe women shouldn't vote" becomes "some women shouldn't vote" becomes "those women shouldn't vote." Start with the childless. Then the unmarried. Then the employed. Then the educated.
Peter Thiel, trump's biggest tech backer, says democracy and women's freedom are incompatible. He chose neither, but he funded a Senate full of men who agree women's votes are the problem.
They learned from Roe. Tell Susan Collins you respect precedent. Get confirmed. Then kill it. The same will happen to the 19th. Not all at once—too obvious. Piece by piece. One excuse at a time.
First "voter integrity." Then "traditional values." Then "protecting women from the burden of politics." The abortion playbook all over again. Safe, legal, and rare became banned, criminalized, and prosecuted.
I lived through the ERA fight. Watched Phyllis Schlafly convince women they didn't need constitutional protection. Watched it die state by state. That was forty years ago. The same forces killed it then. The same forces run the Pentagon now.
My grandmother got the vote at thirty-one. My mother was born into it. I thought my daughters would never question it. My granddaughters would never imagine losing it.
I thought wrong.
When the Secretary of Defense shares content calling for repeal of women's suffrage, he's not making conversation. He's normalizing the unthinkable. When the VP questions whether some women deserve equal votes, he's preparing the ground.
They told us Roe was settled law. Fifty years of precedent—gone in a morning. The 19th Amendment is 104 years old. In their minds, 104 years of mistake.
Here's what terrifies them: women earn 60% of college degrees. Outnumber men in law and medical schools. Run Fortune 500 companies. Win Nobel Prizes. Women aren't just voting—they're outperforming, outlearning, outearning the men who want to silence them.
That's why they're moving now. Not because women failed—because women succeeded. Every graduation with more women than men is another reason they want to end this. Every female doctor, lawyer, executive is proof their worldview is dying.
So they're trying to kill ours first.
And they're not pretending otherwise.