Never mind that there have always been women who are eager to police the bodies and behavior of other women.
For ambitious women who wanted to climb the ranks of Republican politics, anti-feminism has long been the steadiest of ladders.
It started after she objected to Republican legislators introducing bills to charge women who get abortions with murder, an extreme move she fears will backfire on the movement.
But mostly it was about growing male anger on the Christian right that women are allowed leadership positions at all.
Most, no doubt, believed that complicity would protect them and that the attacks would be centered on other women.
If they want to feel the full flowering of male domination, it's Republican women they need to see submitting.
That footage is viscerally shocking, but crucially, Republican women are fools if they think that treatment will only be reserved for Democratic women. »
