The Media Research Center’s Alex Christy complained in a March 28 post:
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria took his book tour to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, where he claimed that if there is one thing that unites the “right-wing reactionary movements” of Christian Nationalism (whatever that means), Islamic fundamentalism, and ultra-Orthodox Israelis, it is that belief that “women have gotten to uppity.” For good measure, Zakaria also threw in Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.
[…]He continued, “Look at the right-wing reactionary movements all over the world, whether it’s Islamic fundamentalism, whether it’s Christian nationalism, whether it’s the ultra-orthodox in Israel, they all, the come of principal concern is often women have gotten too uppity. You know, let’s move, Xi Jinping gave a speech the other day in which he said women basically need to go back to the kitchen and they need to start having babies again.”
Zakaria is hardly alone in using “Christian nationalism” as a scary-sounding term without ever defining it or explaining how it differs from traditionally understood conservative Christianity, but lumping it in with Islamic fundamentalism as “right-wing” and communist dictators strongly suggests Zakaria is just using it to simply mean “bad and scary.”
In fact, contrary to Christy’s insistence, Christian nationalism is very easily defined — heck, it even has its own Wikipedia entry. By contract, Christy’s employer loves to hang the word “woke” on people and things it deems insufficiently right-wing without ever bothering to define it (even though it tried to defend a right-wing author who couldn’t define the word even though she wrote an entire book about it).
Interestingly, Christy doesn’t make an effort disprove Zakaria’s assertion about right-wing religions complaining that women are too uppity. That’s probably a good thing, since he would need only to go down the hall at MRC HQ to find a woman who has internalized this anti-woman narrative. The MRC’s anti-abortion esxdtremist, Tierin-Rose Mandelburg, wrote in an April 5 post:
One of the only things that wake me up every day is the idea that one day I’ll get to homeschool my kids, honor God and serve my husband. Though that more biblical role is frowned upon by progressives who think women have to work a 9-5 to be worth anything, many women are waking up to what our natural, God-designed role as women is supposed to be.
A survey conducted by the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women and steered by GOP campaign consultant Kellyanne Conway’s company KAConsulting, LLC, indicated that young women nowadays prefer femininity and tradition over feminism.
[…]One more interesting component of the survey was that a vast majority of women, regardless of political party affiliation, agreed that it is unfair to have biological males compete in female sports.
Take that Lia Thomas!
[…]While this lifestyle isn’t for everyone and some girls are destined to be professional boss babes, this traditional sense of life, with femininity at its core is really making a comeback – and honestly, I couldn’t be happier.
Mandelburg, however, doesn’t appear to be so happy about this development that she will immediately quit the MRC, completely leave the workforce and wait for a man to take care of her. Apparently, getting paid to spew hate at transgender people is not considered “uppity” in her right-wing world.