"... then the pregnant women of Trump world are one half of their feminine counterparts. Along with the sheath-clad, lip-filled, pageant-haired
Mar-a-Lago set, they offer an image of idealized womanhood that gives literal shape to the
pronatalist movement. 'It almost feels like a memo went out,' said Jill Filipovic, the host of the '
Week in Women' podcast. 'They have quite intentionally opted to present themselves as, "I am really pregnant, and this is what women were chosen to do," and they are happy to say that both with their looks and their mouths.' If in doubt, simply consider
posts on X and Instagram last month from [Katie] Miller, who was then some nine months pregnant. 'In honor of Mother’s Day,' she wrote, 'a reminder that peak feminism is having babies. The most radical thing a woman can do is embrace her biological destiny.' Along with her words came a portrait taken from the side, in which Miller is shown wearing low-slung, unbuttoned jeans and a black sports bra, her dark hair cascading in waves down her back. Like the stretchy and black knit Milly dress with a tulip on the front worn by Usha Vance for a military mothers celebration at the White House, and the form-fitting gowns worn by Leavitt and Miller to the White House Correspondents’ dinner in April, the photograph placed Miller’s rounded stomach front and center, enshrining her pregnancy for all to see...."
The NYT fashion writer Vanessa Friedman inspects the fecund right-wing bodies in
"The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image/Usha Vance, along with Katie Miller and Karoline Leavitt, shows how much is said by an expectant silhouette, without anyone saying a word" (NYT).
Here's how Katie induced Vanessa to propagate adjectives:
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That first "If" does a lot of heavy lifting, and it's also not true.
Something something won by those who show up something something. If there are no babies, eventually there's no one to show up.
Peak feminine, yes. Peak masculine is complementary to mother and child.
"shows how much is said by an expectant silhouette, without anyone saying a word" (NYT)."
Says the NYT, running off at the mouth.
Remember when the left claimed to be the "reality
-based community"? They sure have a problem with nature.
Contemporary motherhood is a minefield of cultural flashpoints. Many childless women seem to resent the new mothers. The decision to have a child is perceived by some as a betrayal of feminism, as an acceptance of subordination, as a waste of talents that could be used to pursue money and status. It's an affirmation of life. It is a recognition that we aren't the final generation. It expresses optimism about emotional commitment. It endorses heterosexual love. It is therefore antithetical to everything that the NYT supports.
The left would rather you murder the baby, rather than show your pregnant stomach.....unless it is Hollyweird like Demi Moore showing off her naked bump.
NYT - assholes.
Friedman has a narrowly Diverse perspective that is fashionably characteristic of modern frailty.
Pregnancy, boo hiss!
Species extinction, yay yay!!
Can't get html right today...
Is this the NYT article remarking about Usha Vance's $9 Old Navy outfit?
Mean girl vibe. Tsk tsk NYT.
More Kulturslop from the Times. These articles write themselves when a Republican is in office.
".. [Katie] Miller, who was then some nine months pregnant. 'In honor of Mother’s Day,' she wrote, 'a reminder that peak feminism is having babies. The most radical thing a woman can do is embrace her biological destiny..."
i GUESS, it's TIME AGAIN, to remind people..
the future Belongs, to those who show up.
Don't want to have babies? Goodbye, it's been good to know ya
Another dispatch from 'There's Something Very Wrong Here, And We're Very Upset About It Because Trump'.
Not that I'm a fan of the bare-belly pregnant-out-to-here look, I think it's silly. And then, good lord, posting it on social media. Motherhood in all stages is glorious and something eminently supportable, though.
MAGA bodies - hot and sexy
Leftist bodies and minds - corroded coercive power-obsessed.
meanwhile..
Trumps FOREVER WAR continues on and on..
Just LOOK at oil and gas prices!
Oil is OVER a HUNDRED Dollars a bbl, and Gas is MORE THAN $5/gal
oh wait!
that was just in Tim's imagination..
Oil is ACTUALLY below $70 ($68.80 a minute ago..)
and Gas was $3.25/gal this morning.. and dropping
Wow. Some lady has a lot of time on her hands, worrying about other women being openly pregnant. WtF?
Old Navy stuff is made overseas, helping keep the US textile industry destroyed. Not a great company for a MAGA family member to promote. Pennywise and pound-foolish.
I hope one of these days a female MAGA POTUS (Sarah Huckabee Sanders?) can show the receipt for a couple-hundred dollar dress made once again in the Carolinas, with a snapshot of the textile worker's nice house and truck.
CC, JSM
"Kai Akker said...
Pregnancy, boo hiss!
Species extinction, yay yay!!
6/26/26, 10:22 AM
How do you say that in Japanese?
“Here's how Katie induced Vanessa to propagate adjectives”
…well done…
Does the NYT see everything as a psyop?
I'm not a fan of MMA or photos of pregnant ladies, but it's pretty normal stuff without a sinister motive. MMA is immensely popular, and the fighters look like beast-men. Capable, professional women get pregnant, and continue to appear in public. It's normal.
Did the NYT do an exploration of why Progressive women are obese and have blue hair? Or why the Rachel Levine looked more like a Jack Benny character than an actual woman?
All year long, the Left has gotten to dictate what counts as national news, whether that's the Epstein files, the ICE killings, the re-emergence of old diseases, inflation, or the Iran War. It's only fair that now conservatives get to pick what is news.
I was right the Iran war would be an utter disaster. Here’s why I support it. Never let it be said I didn't do the very least I could possibly do to try to prevent it. ~ JD Vance
Remember when the NYT used fashion photography to promote more positive role models for young women. And when diversity among those role models was emblematic of our strength?
Good times.
Do you leftists wake up thinking like this everyday? No wonder you are so unhappy. It doesn't have to be like this. You are doing it to yourself you know. The hate is coming from in the house.
“Breezy said...
Mean girl vibe. Tsk tsk NYT.”
@Breezy, consider the possibility that Althouse herself is a mean.girl, and that such is her main reason for reposting this piece of drivel. Really, if women were “chosen” to be the sex that carries babies to term, then they were chosen by a billion years of mammalian evolution.
“That three such prominent women in the MAGA movement were pregnant at pretty much the same time was, indubitably, a coincidence.”
lolol “indubitably” This is the NYT signaling their fairness. They could have led with a conspiracy - but no, they are objective. This, indubitably, was a coincidence.
“Along with the sheath-clad, lip-filled, pageant-haired Mar-a-Lago set, they offer an image of idealized womanhood that gives literal shape to the pronatalist movement.”
OMG! It’s a two pronged attack: beautiful old Republican women and beautiful pregnant young Republican women.
There’s too much sex going on. Lefties attack from all sides and what are the Trumpies doing? Having sex like they can’t be bothered.
“They have quite intentionally opted to present themselves as, ‘I am really pregnant’”
Why aren’t these women hiding their pregnancies? Let’s face it, these are FAILED abortions. No one should be proud of failure.
“It’s a notable change from the wardrobe choices of former political spouses like Cherie Blair, who surprised Britain when she became pregnant when her husband, Tony Blair, was prime minister. (Their son Leo was born in 2000.) Her maternity style consisted primarily of tunics and other loosefitting attire. Ditto Jacqueline Kennedy, who, when she was carrying a child during her husband’s 1960 presidential campaign, wore Empire-waist dresses and trapeze-like shapes that sufficiently skimmed her pregnant body to leave most of its reality to the imagination.”
Yup, I told you!
More evidence: “the look is also a departure from the tradwife aesthetic that has … well, burgeoned with the MAGA movement and features more smock-like and demure pregnancy clothes.”
Hide those pregnancies, ladies!
“It’s really noticeable that the MAGA women are not hiding their pregnancy,” Lewis said. “There is pride in being pregnant and being fertile.” They are modeling the idea, she said, that “one of the ways women can hold power is by being mothers and leaning into the imagery of that.”
Deal with it.
BTW, NYT comment section all negative.
Mitt Romney's wife was called a Nazi for celebrating motherhood.
It seems to me that the tight fitting maternity clothes are the style now. That's what I see on television and that's what I see on the streets. I don't think I've seen someone wearing the full dresses and blouses that were the style when I had children thirty some years ago. They all wear tight fitting clothes that accent the belly.
JSM, does American Giant make maternity clothes?
Style writer Vanessa Friedman is such a vicious dimwit. When Mandami's commie, Jew-hating wife showed up to the Knicks final to plop her progressive butt into a $1000 seat looking like a deranged bag lady, Friedman praised her for her designer outfit's "sustainability" while failing to mention that the crudely pinned-together team shirts were bootlegs -- stolen from the Knicks' propritary brand.
"Duwaji chose a one-shouldered peplum top ... made from upcycled Knicks T-shirts in white, orange and blue, and she wore it with a full black skirt, orange pompom earrings and black lace-ups with ankle socks. But the top, which was a sort of downtown Les Miz-meets-D.I.Y.-meets-team spirit confection, was the point ... Not only was Duwaji modeling fandom for all to see, she was doing it while using her profile to shine a light on a mostly unknown young designer, give a nod to sustainability and underscore her own 20-something fashion cred."
Honest question for the feminists:
What is the purpose of feminism? What is the belief system behind it?
Is it your belief that women have a greatness and value of their own?
Or is it your belief that men are awesome, women, suck, and there "goodness" and "rightness" in the world are achieved by women doing exactly what men do? Thinking like men think?
Because if "being a women is great", then pregnancy, which women can do and men can't, should be pretty much the pinnacle of feminism.
But if being a woman sucks, and everything male is the ideal them "modern feminism" makes a lot more sense.
Once again, the article says more about this particular classes' fears than anything else.
I also think both Katie Miller and Usha Vance did in fact use words to say something about their maternity outfits.
“What is the purpose of feminism? What is the belief system behind it?”
Freedom
"Freedom"
Really? Who are enslaving women?
Oh, please. Hollywood women - leftists all, at least publicly - have been wearing skin-tight maternity wear for years and years. To say absolutely nothing of the fact that Hollywood women, leftists all, have been botoxed and lip-filled and blow-dried and breast-enhanced and God knows what else to turn them into Barbie dolls for even longer - all the while being presented as the avatars of womanhood. Leftist womanhood, which they contrasted with right-wing womanhood, which they characterized as toothless, stringy-haired, and, you know, deplorable.
Now that Republican women, real ones, are in positions of power and influence, female beauty and the desire of women to look their best magically signals fascism, or something.
Really? Who are enslaving women?
Seriously, that’s your question?
You’ve never heard of Iran?
Ms. Friedman seems like a real "body positivity" supporter...
A gaunt, unlovely, probably secular, liberal Jewish Democrat joining the fatuous NYT anti-MAGA parade. As she curries favor with her hometown New Yorkers and other NYT dupes by denigrating beautiful, successful MAGA moms she appears unaware that the other shoe, violent antisemitism, following Mamdani and his primaries, is poised to drop on her and her own children.
"You’ve never heard of Iran?"
Yeah, cuz feminists are all over that injustice.
“Yeah, cuz feminists are all over that injustice.”
Exactly.
Who did it first, was it Demi Moore? During her 'Bruce Willis' phase?
Without Althouse, my knowledge of the weird bizzaro world of the NYT's would be zero. Buzz words, jargon, and strange ideas that go against common values held by Western society for 2000 years.
'It almost feels like a memo went out,' said Jill Filipovic (who?) No Jill, that's how the liberal/left operates. Not how conservatives or Republicans think.
The MSM is constantly on the look out for bad-think or anything that might go against the party line on any subject. For some reason women being proud of their pregnancies is in that category.
EvaMarie: “Really? Who are enslaving women? …
You’ve never heard of Iran?” We’ve heard of Iran and other Islamist nations enslaving women. However, we’ve never heard “freedom-loving” American feminists condemn them for it.
"Without Althouse, my knowledge of the weird bizzaro world of the NYT's would be zero."
Ditto. It can be pretty depressing reading some of the stuff here, but I suppose it's better to be informed than not. I guess…
And when I die. And when I'm dead, dead and gone, there'll be one child born in this world to carry on.
David Clayton Thomas
Just to say the obvious, women need to have children. At least 2.1 per female. Or your country and civilization dies out. We need to enourage women to have kids, not the opposite. Of course, you can get by for a while with a low birth rate, but ultimately it needs to go back to 2.1
Japan South korea are overcrowded and can get by on 1.0 per women for a while. But in 20-30 years it will have to recover.
"Exactly."
Huh?
I really do not understand how people can read the NYT on a daily basis.
It must be an over educated East Coast thing. You know, the special people.
I had a girlfriend in the late 70’s whose weekend ritual was reading the Sunday NYT cover to cover. She smoked and drank coffee while I did the crossword. She was, of course, from NYC and a graduate of Vassar.
How do people like Vanessa Friedman get through the day with so much hateful bile in them?
If these women keep getting pregnant without our permission, we're going to have to bring back confinement.
Feminists like to complain that women are unfairly stereotyped as catty. Then they write stuff like this.
Well, Ambrose, she's asking for it with her own relentless nastiness. She is vicious towards Republican women, even saying crude things about their bodies that would get any man fired. She drools absurd ideas such as there being something "sustainable" about runway shows, personal stylists and couture when Democrats, socialists, and celebrities use them. And she's a self-loathing Jew who claims to analyze politics and clothing but never seems to find room to mention that Mandami's wife has called for the literal elimination of Israel. The Times used to have fun feature writers like the delightful Bill Cunningham. I have to read the paper for work. It is a universe of absurdity, dread, and bad editing. But the recipes are good.
Women have been getting pregnant for millenia. And I don't say that like it's a bad thing. If they didn't we wouldn't be here.
The article is super interesting because it can only be convincing to people who aren't around pregnant women in their communities. Everything maternity is form fitting now. The NYT writer knows this, it's why she had to go back to 2000 to find a bag dress!
“Honest question for the feminists:”
“What is the purpose of feminism? What is the belief system behind it?”
“Is it your belief that women have a greatness and value of their own?”
Apologize I’m advance if this insults anyone here.
Men are, on average, bigger, stronger, and faster. They work harder, with longer hours and fewer breaks. Their group decision making is on average much more efficient, and better capable of considering long term.and National and international effects.
So, what do women bring to the table? One word: Motherhood. The ability to get pregnant, bring children into the world, and to nurture them while young.
My Father’s Day present this year? My daughter announcing that she is pregnant, with a second child.
Leland, wow, I never heard of American Giant. That is a good start! Of course they began during the Obamination of Desolation, so maybe they kept their costs down by employing illegals in NC. They can't do that anymore, though....CC, JSM
A little earlier on X I read an interesting statistic. It's so easy today to come up with them. Of the 100 most fertile counties in the USA, 94 (or 96, one of those two) voted for Trump.
Obamination sounds too much like Obama-Nation. How about Obamanakba? Obamashoah? Obamacaust? Obama d'etat? Obamaluge? Obamadomor? Obamarregnum? CC, JSM
@Bruce Hayden
Apology accepted
So much for Katie and Usha. Does Vanessa want to comment on what Stephen and JD are wearing?
Feminism began by demanding for women the kind of freedom that (postwar straight, white) men had (or that women thought men had), but now it's adapted to a world in which we are all becoming progressively less free.
“Species extinction, yay yay!!”
6/26/26, 10:22 AM
“How do you say that in Japanese?”
A: GODZILLA!!!!
Look Vanessa Friedman up. With a face like that, she’s got nothing to laugh about.
Or point fingers at others.
. . . a world in which we are all becoming progressively less free.
That’s why, when Donald Trump uttered what he thought might be his last words, they were “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
In the corporate offices where I used to work, from time to time a woman who was on maternity leave would come visit with her newborn. All the hard-charging empowered feminist ladies would gather to play Pass The Baby. (Men were not allowed to play.) This suggest that there may be something to the old Maternal Instinct we used to talk about.
Well they were impossibly dense 18 years ago
Shouldn’t the obvious point here be that accomplished women are an important part of the Trump administration—and look how far women have come, because they can have a career and also be pregnant and not hide that fact.
This was one of the supposed ultimate feminist goals!
“Shouldn’t the obvious point here be that accomplished women are an important part of the Trump administration—and look how far women have come, because they can have a career and also be pregnant and not hide that fact.
This was one of the supposed ultimate feminist goals“
That would have been the point if it was a Democrat administration. Feminism as a movement has been captured by the left and they use it to divide- never unite.
Feminism: 'All within the feminist cause, nothing outside the feminist cause, nothing against the feminist cause'
Any feminist advancements represented from within the present administration are outside the feminist cause, by definition.
Howling harridans squinting at the light
FWIW, 42 years ago, when my wife’s baby bump contained elder son, I think she was waaaay hotter than Katie Miller.
Jill Filipovic, Vanessa Friedman, and Ann Althouse believe in a woman’s right to choose — but only if they choose abortion. Any other choice is looked at askance.
NYT introducing a new section: The Phrenology of Fashion.
Obviously it will appear on both the Science and Current News sections to keep this new and important divination tool handy to all readers of the NYT!!! (TDS anyone?)
Soon I expect the NYT will be selling papers at the checkout counters with those other storied new organizations: National Enquirer; National Examiner, Star etc. that also serve all the news... they think..thats fit to print.
Eva Marie said...
Me: “What is the purpose of feminism? What is the belief system behind it?”
Freedom
"Freedom" to do what? Be just like men?
Because it's sure not about the freedom to not have to fuck on the 2nd date. Because that freedom requires slut-shaming.
Freedom to be a stay at home mom? No, everyone has to go out and work, because if you don't have two incomes, you can't have the standard required things, since their price was driven up by the two earner couples
Iran enslaves women, and the "feminists" seem to be pretty much all lining up with Iran and Islam.
So no, "freedom" isn't what "feminism" is about,
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