Good House? Keeping?

Old stuff (like my 1940s magazine covers)  remind me of the years of my childhood--sewing, decorating a table, playing with a dog, doing puzzles, reading. 

A cover I chose not to buy reflects the other side: the imposition of values (usually by men toward women) that underlie the arrogance in today's "pro-life" rhetoric.  

On the cover of this women's "housekeeping" magazine of the 1940s, it says, "Unchastity is a sin." The language makes me shudder.  I imagine the stern face of the author of the essay, an exclamation pointed judge, most likely a man.   Or maybe a literate version of Marjorie Taylor Green (the Georgia congresswoman who called a Petri dish a "Peachtree dish") or another right-wing conservative woman who wants her choices to be imposed on all women. 

Matt Gaetz said the other day that the women who were protesting were the ones least likely to need abortions; who would want to impregnate such ugly women? 

Vanity Fair said this:

Congress is filled with a lot of loathsome, moronic, thoroughly repugnant people, but perhaps none more so than Representative Matt Gaetz. Currently under investigation for allegedly paying women for sex and, separately, sleeping with a minor and transporting her across state lines, the Florida legislator responded to the assault on reproductive rights in May by tweeting: “How many of the women rallying against overturning Roe are over-educated, under-loved millennials who sadly return from protests to a lonely microwave dinner with their cats, and no bumble matches?” But apparently that was just the start of this overgrown frat boy’s ignorant antiabortion routine, which he followed up on Saturday by telling a room full of teens and young adults that any woman who supports reproductive rights is too ugly for him to f--k.

Many in Congress and the majority of Supreme Court justices don't get it, don't care to get it. They are fiddling while Rome burns, focusing on issues through their usual sexist and punitive lenses. This is not new, but it's ramped up to the point I can't believe these idiots (let's say it out loud!) are actually in power in this country.