All posts tagged "Amanda Marcotte"

President Donald Trump's repeated claims that girls will have to get along with fewer dolls as his tariffs work their economic magic reveals an underlying MAGA misogyny that reinforces the beliefs of the manosphere, according to Salon's Amanda Marcotte.

A week ago, Trump seemed to speak off the cuff when he said, "maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls." But Marcotte wrote that the "doll" talk became an actual talking point, as evidenced by the fact he told NBC's Kristen Welker, "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls," then told reporters , "All I’m saying is that a young lady, a 10-year-old-girl, 9-year-old girl, 15-year-old-girl, doesn’t need 37 dolls."

Marcotte argued that "Trump defended his trade-destroying tariffs by lecturing parents about not spoiling their daughters" who are inherently "frivolous" due to their gender, a point that speaks directly to the MAGA base that helped Trump get elected....

Amanda Marcotte with Salon is lifting the lid on a scandal of somewhat Biblical proportions involving the evangelical MAGA acolytes behind the hugely successful podcast "Girls Gone Bible."

Nicole Ardrete, a former friend of L.A. actresses and self-professed "Jesus freaks" Angela Halili and Arielle Reitsma, told Marcotte they all once worked together as underground "poker girls" who dressed sexy and were expected to flirt with high-end male customers in Los Angeles.

According to Marcotte, Halili and Reitsma put all that behind them to build a cult following for their hyper-feminine focus on purity, modesty, "submission" in marriage, and support of President Donald Trump's agenda. According to Marcotte, the Girls Gone Bible YouTube channel has more than 730,000 subscribers and nearly a million followers on Instagram, while their podcast "sits at the top of Spotify's podcast charts in the Religion & Spirituality category." ...

Join us here as we react to President Barack Obama's fifth State of the Union address. Comedian Lizz Winstead joins Raw Story columnists Amanda Marcotte and TBogg, as well as publisher Roxanne Cooper and executive editor Tony Ortega. Join in the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #RawSOTU -- and stay with us through the Republican responses, when things really get fun.

Tuesday night at 9 pm, comedian Lizz Winstead will join Raw Story columnists Amanda Marcotte and TBogg, publisher Roxanne Cooper, and executive editor Tony Ortega as President Barack Obama appears before both houses of Congress with his annual State of the Union address.

Sam Seder interviewed me for the Young Turks. Check it out!

Marc made this 45 second video (with some help from me, mostly in writing) last night warning about a new public menace.